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.
This is one of the more successful pieces in the series of animals made of text. In this case, I decided to make a cat out of text. I used Inkscape, imported the silhouette of a cat, and then typed the text on top of it. I converted the text to a path, and began to shape the text to meet the edges of the silhouette in such a way as to still have it be readable. I hope you enjoy it!
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I got a recent comment from a design student on Flickr who said that while he liked my work, he was being asked in classes to do something similar, but without altering the letterforms. While I’m not sure how recognizability happens with those restrictions, I decided to try to do this chicken while keeping the original letterforms relatively unmodified. I really love the result, and will definitely try it again!
text, type, typography, chicken, made of text, lemasney, open source, creative commons, Inkscape, GIMP
I saw autumn coming today.
A very simple idea, and quite a simple design. A great font with some kerning applied, essentially. I try to make this one of my daily reasons for being.
The latest in the text based animals sub-project.
I got a little carried away, but I like it. 🙂