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.
One of my most devoted supporters in this project, Beth, asked me if I could find a way to honor her astrological sign or her Native American nation of Penobscot. I decided to do the one that I knew the most about, in order to avoid any unintended faux pas. I hope you love it, Beth, and I just wanted to say I appreciate your support, as always!
I got approached a while ago by none other than two of my favorite Librarians, Julie Strange and Andy Woodworth, about the idea of helping them to brand a new blog venture that at the time was tentatively called “The Strange Woods” which has to be the best name ever conceived out of two author’s names. I recently freed up my sketching schedule and got to work to produce these mockups for their blog header. Unfortunately, I just got word back that naming the project is still underway, and The Strange Woods is likely going to be called something else. I really loved the designs, though, and thought I’d share them with you.
tags: libraries, Woodworth, Strange, New Jersey, Maryland, Design, Inkscape, wordmarks, creative commons, open source, 365
I just thought this was a funny way to arrange text, and was looking for a reason for the pieces to be blocking each other.
tags: ask, nicely, apologize, please, thank you, polite, request, get out, my, way, Inkscape, design, typography, open source, creative commons, sharism, 365
The other day, my friend Tim McGee was asking about using tools like Inkscape and the GIMP to switch out faces on famous paintings, such as American Gothic, with those of his friends. I gave him a short demo with two anonymous faces I found on the web, but I decided to use the very same technique to simply switch the faces of the father and daughter in the painting.
tags: American Gothic, playful, face off, switch, androgyny, cross dressing, masking, clipping, Inkscape, design, open source, sharism
My good friend Robert Mangold reacted to my recent adbuster about Burger King with the thought that he expected to see a commando heart ready to fight. I loved his idea, and may still directly sketch that out, but it inspired me here to make a heart attack more in the vein of what he was describing than what most of us think about with the phrase “heart attack”. Thanks for the inspiration, Rob, as always! If you like this image, please share it. If you use it, please attribute me, and thanks! (cc-by lemasney)
juxtaposition, play on words, heart attack, bombing, love bomb, DMB, Inkscape, design, 365, open source, creative commons, sharism, lemasney, design, open source, creative commons, cc-by, typography, poster, Inkscape, GIMP
Look at my favorite images from this project on the My Favorite Pieces page
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