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Political Party Logos – part 3

Monday, February 16th, 2009

DAP have a page devoted to an explanation of their logo, as it embodies some of their fundamental principles - more on those later. Again, I copy and paste the bitmapped logo from their website and construct a new one from elements in Inkscape. One of the first things I ...

Political Party Logos – part 2

Monday, February 16th, 2009

Converting a simple bitmapped logo, such as the Parti Keadilan Rakyat logo is not difficult. The first step is to find a good example, and I took the ballot-slip image from the top-right of the PKR website. You can copy and paste the image into a new Inkscape document. The ...

Political Party Logos – part 1

Monday, February 16th, 2009

Perhaps the most apparent aspect of a political party, after its most famous or infamous members, is its logo. Logos are spectacularly obvious in Malaysia around election times, as large flags line every street, hanging from bamboo poles planted in the ground, hanging from every building and plastered onto any ...

Why use Free Open Source Software in Politics?

Saturday, February 14th, 2009

It's a good question. Ask just about anybody, and they'll tell you that what they know about computers is all based on the world's favourite typewriter-emulator software. Why should they change to something else? Software isn't cheap. Its price is often hidden in the price of a new PC that ...