Tag Archives: inkscape

Fail and Prejudice: Using Inkscape as an alternative to Illustrator

Emina Sendijarevic | 31 October 2010, 4:34 pm | tags: , , ,

I was already familiar with Illustrator (CS3). However since it’s been a while ago, I thought I could use Inkscape without prejudice. Wrong. This is a quick illustration I made and as you can see it didn’t work out like I had in mind. The point was to make a head upside down, half filled with blood that was dripping…

I heart Illustrator

Lotte Woerde | 24 October 2010, 9:23 pm | tags: , , , , , ,

My first experience with Inkscape

Ever since I started Art Academy in 2000 I use Adobe’s vector graphics software program Illustrator to create logo’s, cards, brochures, posters and other kinds of hard-copy. But although I find it a great piece of software, Illustrator is an expensive product. It alone costs €855,61. Because of this, and also because of…

Inkscape adventure continued…

Laila Koubia | 17 October 2010, 7:39 pm | 3 comments | tags: , , ,

If you have been reading my recent post about my Inkscape adventure you know that this adventure didn’t go quite as well as I expected it to go. I must admit that this was mainly because of the fact that I couldn’t work on my regular working-machine and therefore ended up frustrated and fed up with…

Becoming an Inkscape expert

Floor Broer van Dijk | 11 October 2010, 5:19 pm | tags: , , ,

A few weeks ago, during the practical class of John Haltiwanger, he asked us what we wanted to learn on the computer. There were several people who wanted to learn how to Photoshop. Since John didn’t know how to Photoshop, he purposed to us another comparable program, Inkscape. Was it ok for…

I heart Photoshop

Fei An Tjan | 11 October 2010, 3:30 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , ,

In a weak moment, I again volunteered to take up another task for Kriterion and design the flyer for one of the upcoming events. I thought this would be a good way to pressure myself to make something nice of the assignment, instead, I was frustrated all over.

Inkscape adventure

Laila Koubia | 10 October 2010, 7:26 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , ,

I always thought of myself as a person open to change and eager for new impulses and opportunities. However I don’t think this applies to my computer surroundings. It started all with my beloved Macbook Pro’s screen turning pitch black; everything was working except for the screen, it just decided to die right there at that moment. After a short…

Bringing the Libre: An Interview with Free Software Developer Jon Phillips

John Haltiwanger | 12 July 2010, 8:30 am | 1 comment | tags: , , , ,

At the recent Libre Graphics Meeting in Brussels, I had the lucky pleasure of meeting Jon Phillips, a man with seemingly as many projects in a given moment as he has fingers and toes. Just a few of his notable involvements include: vector graphics application Inkscape, the Open Clipart Library, the innovative web application stack Aiki Framework, the fully-federated Twitter replacement Status.net (which powers identi.ca), and the projects (palm-top computer, video camera, and portable VJ station) being developed at Qi Hardware. All of these projects are free in the ontological imperative sense.