VISUAL CULTURE a tool for design collaboration (with GIT)
Visualise the evolution of your design projects, facilitate collaborations, harness the power of Git!
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Popular Git hosting service GitHub does offer visualisations for certain file types. OSP’s Eric Schrijver even worked with them to make possible the visualisation of type-face development: http://i.liketightpants.net/and/how-it-has-come-about-that-code-hosting-site-github-offers-visualisations-of-typeface-development
However, GitHub is proprietary software and it maintains it features only if there is a profit for them. The typeface visualisation has been removed in a more recent update.
Also, GitHub is on the internet. While they make a desktop application, it offers no visual versioning.
However, GitHub is proprietary software and it maintains it features only if there is a profit for them. The typeface visualisation has been removed in a more recent update.
Also, GitHub is on the internet. While they make a desktop application, it offers no visual versioning.
With Visual Culture, you work on your own computer. You exchange files (and changes to files) only if and when you want to.
There is a large difference between for example Dropbox based collaboration and Git based collaboration. Dropbox (or Google Drive, for that matter) will always add your changes automatically, whereas with Git you choose when and what to share.
Besides you can even use Visual Culture just for yourself, to keep track of the evolution of your design process.
There is a large difference between for example Dropbox based collaboration and Git based collaboration. Dropbox (or Google Drive, for that matter) will always add your changes automatically, whereas with Git you choose when and what to share.
Besides you can even use Visual Culture just for yourself, to keep track of the evolution of your design process.
It’s OSP’s contribution to a project called Visual Grammar: http://www.modern-theory.com/projects/visual-grammar/
You can buy a silk-screen (of the final?) version here: http://www.modern-theory.com/shop_type/open-source-publishing/
You can download the source files here: http://osp.kitchen/work/visual-grammar/
You can buy a silk-screen (of the final?) version here: http://www.modern-theory.com/shop_type/open-source-publishing/
You can download the source files here: http://osp.kitchen/work/visual-grammar/
Because with OSP we use only Open Source Software (Gimp, Scribus, Latex, Inkscape, HTML/CSS/JS) we will initially work on adding visualisation support for Open Source tools. We realise, though, that limiting Visual Culture to these tools will limit its usefulness for the bulk of designers that work with proprietary tools like Photoshop. So we will add support for popular proprietary formats as well. Normally we will develop for the open formats first, but if you sponsor us we can prioritise on the format of your choice! (see rewards).
As designers, we’ve earned our stripes—in a divided Belgium we’ve won both the most beautiful book Flanders award (Plantin Moretus) and the most beautiful book in Brussels/Wallonia (Prix Fernand Baudin Prijs). As developers, well the best way is to check what we have already done. Our proof of concept is our own website, which visually shows the contents of our Git repositories. The source code for this application is available online: <http://osp.kitchen/tools/visualculture/>.