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
So I realized a long time ago that Radiohead’s song “Creep” and Queens of the Stone Age’s song “How to handle a rope” (I think; I’ll check) “You can’t quit me baby” both use the beautiful lyric I illustrated here. Yeah it’s a little sad, but who doesn’t want someone to miss them? Anyway this is just a series of fonts overlapped on a gradient background in Inkscape.
tags: radiohead, qotsa, lyric, Inkscape, open source, creative commons, cc-sa, wordpress, postaday2011
This is just simple node editor play with letterforms in Inkscape.
tags: text, font, type, design, typography, visual, bend, bent, Inkscape, design, 365, open source, creative commons, sharism
Phil Shapiro, a long time supporter of this project, who contacts me regularly about Inkscape related stories and sites. He recently contacted me and suggested:
Here’s an inspirational quote I totally made up today. “Life is a rich tapestry of metaphors interwoven with another rich tapestry of other metaphors.” Can you give this a 365 Sketches treatment to place the text centered (landscape) with a weaving theme around all four borders? <giggle> phil
Thanks, Phil! I didn’t know exactly what to do with the weaving around the four borders, but I really love the way this font and color renders a rich interweaving tapestry. 🙂
tags: weaving, tapestry, metaphor, life, living, inter, design, font, type, typography, color, open source, creative commons, Inkscape
So my good friend and sometime collaborator, Craig Smith, asked me to look through my fonts to see what I thought might be a good match for his soon-to-be-released CD of electronica. He passed me the existing cover art and notes, and I gathered from the work and from his description that he was looking for something dark, edgy, and crisp. I gave him a list of about 12 fonts as a sample, and we whittled it down to this set of five. I was very happy to be asked, and I love the idea that I might be mentioned in his notes. Thanks for reaching out Craig, and congratulations on the project!
Tags: Craig Smith, music, electronic, digital, songs, cd, release, font, design, inkscape, open source
So this was inspired by the recent sketch of my longtime monogram as well as a conversation with Sarah Badawy about how some combinations of letters work better than others. In order to do each of these, I went through the same workflow in Inkscape each time:
You can do it. You can also extend this methodology to any string of text to make logos, wordmarks, and text based art and design.