{"id":1050,"date":"2020-09-03T00:10:12","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T07:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/?p=1050"},"modified":"2021-11-20T13:32:54","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T21:32:54","slug":"design-a-black-lives-matter-poster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/design-a-black-lives-matter-poster\/","title":{"rendered":"design: a Black Lives Matter poster"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It is the least I could do; downloading this PDF<\/a> and printing out the first three pages is the least you can do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I made it in the free and open source LibreOffice program<\/a>, using the fonts Cantarell Extra Bold<\/a> (originally designed by Dave Crossland<\/a>) and Dobkin Script<\/a> (by Dieter Steffman<\/a>), they are free to install for such personal use. I filled in the ‘v’ in “Lives” using the free and open source Inkscape<\/a> program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2021-11 update: I put it online, why not?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Why hide my work on the 3-millionth most popular blog on the web where no one will see it? Since I’m giving it away I might as well store and version the files publicly, so I hid it among 200 million<\/em> other repositories on GitHub<\/a>, at https:\/\/github.com\/skierpage\/BlackLivesMatter_poster<\/strong><\/a>. I even filed a bug (called “issue” on GitHub) that the T-E-R in “MATTER” is murky and hard to read when printed out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Open source code<\/s> art<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Before doing this I searched for “Black Lives Matter” and “BLM” on GitHub to see how others did it. I found one project with a few enormous photos of protests, another mysterious piece of code with no explanation of what it does, and a promising-sounding but completely empty sk88888888ordie\/BLM-Posters<\/a> project. I assume artists mostly share digital works on other sites such as DeviantArt<\/a> (I always found that name sketchy). Artwork, even digital, isn’t really like code, so GitHub doesn’t make it easy to indicate “This project is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike<\/a> license.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Git Yer Crypto Art!<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The NFT (non-fungible token, with extra-sparkly blockchain goodness) for this artwork is available for one meeelyun dolars<\/em><\/strong>. You can own a nearly meaningless unit of data that proves… that you spent a lot of money for something that might be tangentially related to a freely available digital file. Operators are standing by!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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