John LeMasney (lemsy) is an artist, graphic designer, and technology creative. He is located in beautiful Nelson County, VA, but works remotely with ease. Contact him at: lemasney@gmail.com to discuss your next creative project.
I had a very close friend ask me to do a typography study of the text-based heart that we use in chats, in the form of less than 3 (<3). Not surprisingly some fonts work far better than others for conveying a heart.
tags:Â heart, study, typography, Inkscape, open source, creative commons, postaday2011
A friend of mine is planning her wedding, and asked me if I might consider some monograms for the event. I said that I thought it was a great idea. The screencast gives a very good idea of how I typically make graphic identity work.
tags:Â screencast, tutorial, Inkscape, monogram, wedding, open source, WordPress, design, Creative Commons, postaday2011
And sometimes we stumble, too.
tags: crumble, wordpress, postaday2011, open source, creative commons,
tags: life, choice, living, WordPress, open source, postaday2011, creative commons, GIMP
On March 14th at 8 p.m. I gave a talk to the Special Libraries Association about the future of mobile computing.
Here is the writeup:
https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1lY5cnJqAGtwT3PUOBJYn15SZ_XjtocdPjE_bqFTxs_U
Here are the slides:
https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0Ad-YsRMv5bPqZGNrZm05ZndfMjI0ZHp0azdoZGg&hl=en
March 3rd, 2011, at 12 p.m.
In this talk, my first at Princeton University, I introduced several tools that I use to do visual work, including the GIMP, Inkscape and Picasa.
https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dckfm9fw_687cvwg4cdq