LGM 2019 – PrePostPrint
Channel: Libre Graphics Meeting
Date: 17/07/2019

Quentin Juhel
PrePostPrint

Since few years, there is a community growing of graphic designer, researcher and students, which are using or building free software for their publishing workflow. The group « PrePostPrint » results of the desire to gather friends and identified graphic designers who share the desire to re-think the chain of publishing. We want to forego the classical DTP programs. Coding becomes a design tool that permits to reinvent the editorial process, and allows to continuously question and re-invent publishing forms and formats.

PrePostPrint is an informal research group for alternative free publishing workflows. We are specifically interested in the creation of hybrid and printed publications with web technologies. It’s taking shape throught a wiki page and a mailing list and events n Paris and Bruxelles for now (synposiums, workshops, meeting or fair, at La Gaité Lyrique, EnsAD, Parsons School…).

Through this organisation our purpose is to regroup actor and ressources to share our research, projects and tools. It is important for us to communicate to a novice public (student, teacher, graphic designer, publisher…) these alternative editiorial process. As a srike power, PrePostPrint wish to interfere in design education places and provoke a craze for this practice.

Quentin Juhel is a graphic designer who is interested in digital tools and their alienating power over his user and practice, whether he is a designer or a fan of modern technology. Since 2017, is a researcher at EnsadLab – Paris, École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, and a member of PrePostPrint. In the research programme, Hybrid Publicisation – Reflective Interaction (EnsadLab), he develop a problematic about the influence of free software, or at least the free culture, on the shapes of graphic design.

https://prepostprint.org

This presentation was recorded on Saturday, 1st June 2019 as part of Libre Graphics Meeting 2019, at the Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar in Saarbruecken, Germany. To learn more, see https://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2019/.