These are design or consulting jobs that rose out of a request from the audience. I am always looking for prompts for new content, so if you have a need, please reach out.
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: 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: screencast, tutorial, Inkscape, monogram, wedding, open source, WordPress, design, Creative Commons, postaday2011
Thanks to Paula Ostroff for the phrase! If you have a phrase you’d like illustrated, please drop by 365sketches on Facebook!
This was a modified idea first proposed by Dan Wockee where the Android would appear with a Groucho Marx mask. Thanks, Dan, for the spark, and I hope this still works for you/does not get us fined. So if you know me, you know I’m into branding and Open Source. I thought it was funny that AT&T decided to use an Android-like mascot thing for its advertising, especially because I think that AT&T possibly thinks that consumers can’t tell the difference between the Android logo and the cute but similar unnamed mascots created by Jungeun Kim ). I mean no disrespect at all to Kim’s work, but I think AT&T could have done a better job in their brand distinction for Windows phones.
I’ve broken several copyright laws here by mixing Android, AT&T, and Star Wars universes, but if they want, they can ask me to take it down. However, I think I have a case for parody in the piece.
Incidentally, Google allows use of its logo under a Creative Commons license (yes!), as long as you say “Portions of this page are modifications based on work created and shared by Google and used according to terms described in the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License.” Nice job, Google, once again.
Also, I recorded tonight’s screencast, but it failed. I did capture the audio though, so feel free to listen to the process.
Please excuse the brainfart in the middle of the screencast where I give up on moving the text box over. 🙂