I love this quote. It’s definitely one of my favorites, and a small reminder that when disaster strikes, there is often a great thing or two that result, if you look for it. Looking for it is key.
Tag: Inkscape
If you see someone making a statement of supposed fact based entirely on personal experience, let them know that it makes them look like an idiot. Cite studies, or it’s only your own personal truth.
It’s funny. With some fonts, there is an ‘i’ in team. At least when you modify the nodes in the A a bit. I was inspired by this guy.
Sam Pinola, a longtime friend and multiple project collaborator, recently approached me with a sketch request, in this case, a collaboration about his band brand for “Ghosts in the Valley”:
“Hey could you help me work up a ghosts logo that looked like this?”
with an attachment as follows:
and so, I went and found, downloaded and installed about 20 fonts, opened Inkscape, placed the band name in both all caps and mixed case in several fonts and configurations, and finally came down to six that I felt spoke to the direction that Sam gave. So, Sam, what should we do next? Do these go in the right direction? What will we do for the oval emblem? Will we introduce a color palette? Will we manufacture a chrome effect? What’s next?
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.
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!