CC licensed book uses Bauhaus to teach design software

Michael Mandiberg sez,

Digital Foundations takes the formal principles and exercises of the Bauhaus and uses them to teach hands on design software exercises. These are supplemented with historical visual examples from the public domain and contemporary creative commons licensed work. As Media Arts professors my co-author xtine burrough and I were tired of design software books that left out aesthetics, and history. Or worse: gave terrible examples complete with author's vacation photographs, drop shadows, and the watercolor filter!
We are thrilled to have the book in print... with a Creative Commons license! This is a first for AIGA Design Press, New Riders, and Peachpit, and the result of 9 months of negotiation. The whole book was written on a wiki and that is all available for use under a CC license.
We are reaping the fruit of that license already: February 6-8 Adam Hyde and his FLOSSmanuals.net crew are going to come to Eyebeam in NYC to translate the book from Adobe to FLOSS applications.

Digital Foundations is IN PRINT!, Digital Foundations on Amazon (Thanks, Michael!)

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Anonymous

The cover is Suprematist is influence, not Bauhaus.
kaosmonkey

Bela Lugosi’s not dead
normd

I’m just sad that the book doesn’t teach the Gimp and Inkscape……
Daemon

hmm. actually, my comment was directed at #2, who was #1 when i made it. I have NO idea how that happened… boing boing needs threaded comments.
Daemon

#1 – damn you for going there before I did…
adonai

I was wondering when Peter Murphy became a programmer…
acb

Apparently fellow 80s goth rocker Andrew Eldritch later became a journalist for a German computer magazine.
acx99

#2 and #1

Damn you both.
Thorzdad

#8…What? Basic design concepts don’t work in the Gimp? They may use other software as the tools, but the concepts are universal.
yurei

All we ever wanted was everything, all we ever got was…this book cover <_>

*less well-known Bauhaus song
Anonymous

Re: #8 and #10: see http://en.flossmanuals.net/DigitalFoundations
for a translated version of the book using FLOSS software for examples (including GIMP and Inkscape)

-rory
normd

I simply have preferred to see other tools being used. Design concepts are independent of tools, true.