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This is a portfolio of my work in many forms. It should give you some insight as to the products I might help you to create.

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256 of 365 is on email and productivity #typography #design #inkscape

On email and productivity
On email and productivity

I’m always excited when I can get my inbox down to 100 messages or less. I don;t do it often, but when I do, I dance a little inside my head. It should not be nearly so exciting.

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255 of 365 is a logo in progress #type #Inkscape #design

Act4SL
Act4SL

This is a series of wordmarks I’m working on to help brand a new venture called Act for School Libraries (Act4SL). I love the idea: advocacy for media expertise in school libraries so that transliteracy can be fostered in one of the most important places possible: school libraries. This is a work in progress, essentially just begun, and therefore has some roughness to it. That said, I love the directions that it is going in!

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254 of 365 is a nascar cheetah #animal #design #inkscape

Nascar cheetah
Nascar cheetah

So just a few nights ago, I was giving a talk about 365 sketches and it’s origins to the Princeton PC Users Group, and a friend of mine from Linux Users Group in Princeton, Kim, was in the audience. There’s a sequence in my talk where I show a whale deep underwater, preceded by a sheet of web 2.0 logos collected as a way of showing the style of web 2.0 logos. At any rate, when Kim saw this progression, he said that he thought at first that I was going to show a Nascar whale, a whale covered in logos. Yhis struck me as funny, and it was exactly the sort of thing I might do. I decided to do it with a cheetah, in order to stay in the analogic idea of advertising and fast vehicles. So, here it is, and thanks very much to Kim for the spark!

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253 of 365 is a giraffe made out of text by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #typography #design #inkscape #tutorial #cc

253 of 365 is a giraffe made out of text by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #typography #design #inkscape #tutorial #cc
253 of 365 is a giraffe made out of text by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #typography #design #inkscape #tutorial #cc
253 of 365 is a giraffe made out of text by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #typography #design #inkscape #tutorial #cc
253 of 365 is a giraffe made out of text by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #typography #design #inkscape #tutorial #cc

So my libland friend Julie asked me to sketch her a giraffe, and I do just about anything Julie asks. In this case, I did the following to fulfill her request:

  1. I found a silhouette of a giraffe and imported it into Inkscape.
  2. I lowered the opacity on the giraffe so that I could see text as I placed it on top.
  3. I added the letters in the word giraffe one at a time with the text tool
  4. I selected (s) each of the letters and made them into paths (shift-ctrl-c)
  5. Using the node tool (n) I stretched each of the letters into the shape of the silhouette until the letters were representative of the silhouette of the giraffe.
  6. The silhouette was set aside, and I then created a background for the scene.

Try it out with your favorite animal, and let me know how it turns out! Hope you liked it Julie!

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252 of 365 is a note on manners #typography #design #inkscape

On manners
On manners

So I had a phone call today, then a bit later I had today’s sketch. I think less of her now.