hackers and designers bulletin 06

The H&D Bulletin is an occasional publication that brings together practical and reflective articles, conversations and manuals, experimental, poetic, visual, or otherwise speculative contributions from the H&D cosmos.

The bulletins are published and distributed via the H&D website and the H&D mailing list. Printed copies are distributed through independent book stores, publishing fairs and the H&D network whenever there is an opportunity.

This edition of the H&D bulletin reflects on the rework sessions we hosted surrounding the topic of self-organization, and the past summer camp. To this end, we invited a variety of participants to share about their workshop. This bulletin was assembled, edited and designed using Octomode, an experimental publishing tool developed by Varia members. Octomode is a collective editing space for making PDFs, using Etherpad, Paged.js, and Flask. Varia is a Rotterdam-based collective and space for developing collective approaches to everyday technology (https://varia.zone/en/).

"Inspired by the non-centralized, tentacular cognitive capabilities of the octopus, we imagined a space in which the artificial boundaries of writing and designing can be crossed; where writing, editing, and designing can be done in one environment simultaneously, allowing the format to influence the matter and vice-versa.”

Contributors: Sara Fumaça, Michael Fowler, Juliette Lizotte, the DIWO Working Group, Adèle & Leo, Erica Gargaglione, slvi.e, Anja Groten, Florence Walker, Daniel Murray, Clara Pasteau
Editing: slvi.e, Loes Bogers
Design: Juliette Lizotte, Anja Groten
Typefaces: BBBSprat by Eugénie Bidaut, Julie Patard et al., DINdong by Clara Sambot, Amiamie – Mirat Masson et al., BBB Baskervvol by Bye Bye Binary et al., found on Bye Bye Binary's Typotheque: https://typotheque.genderfluid.space Since 2018, the Bye Bye Binary collective has been actively working on the design of post-binary fonts to enable the language to move beyond the debates around inclusive writing.
Riso printing: by Kimberley Cosmilla in the studio of Zuzana Kostelanská & Oriol Cabarrocas.
Tool: Octomode https://cc.vvvvvvaria.org/wiki/Octomode