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20121126: Lucky Bamboo sketch by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design

20121126: Lucky Bamboo sketch by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design
20121126: Lucky Bamboo sketch by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design
20121126: Lucky Bamboo sketch by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design
20121126: Lucky Bamboo sketch by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design

I recently got a gift that I thought was incredibly thoughtful, insightful, and a key indicator to the giver’s state of mind and grace. I’ve always loved bamboo, in part because of its aesthetics, and in part because of what it represents to me, ideologically. It is quick-growing, bright, colorful, and overtaking. It can become incredibly tall, grows in a large family, and provides a lovely shade. It is evergreen, hardy, and resilient. It can be used to build, is very easy to replenish, and is highly recyclable. It is strong, bends without snapping, and has an amazing temper. It is quiet, refined, and calming. It can be used to make furniture, paper, buildings and anything else that wood does, without the preciousness or scarcity of wood and all that entails. Thanks so much to Katy for the gift, it is perfect, and I hope that this is some small indication of what it, and you, mean to me.

tags: bamboo, gift, tall, strong, shade, sketch, kind, lucky, digital

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20121125: A man with an elephant’s step by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design

20121125: A man with an elephant's step by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design
20121125: A man with an elephant's step by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design
20121125: A man with an elephant's step by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design
20121125: A man with an elephant’s step by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design

I feel like a man with the step of an elephant

This is a metaphor for me. I often feel that I still have the weight that I’ve lost when I walk. I feel that my personality is heavy when I am light. I feel that my steps in conversation, exchange, and entry is sometimes clumsy and heavy-footed. I feel like I am often seen as a 2 ton graceless monster before someone knows me, and I work to make that extra shadow disappear for people as quickly as possible.

tags: animal, sketch, shadow, metaphor, man, me, self-portrait, elephant, transformation

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20121124: You can’t always get what you want by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #flowchart

20121124: You can't always get what you want by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #flowchart
20121124: You can't always get what you want by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #flowchart
20121124: You can't always get what you want by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #flowchart
20121124: You can’t always get what you want by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #flowchart

This is a flowchart that diagrams the classic Rolling Stones song “You can’t always get what you want” but the reality is, the thing that you want is usually right in front of you, disguised as what you think you need. The thing you thought you wanted? It just went further down a rabbit hole.

tags: stones, get what you want, get what you need, want, need, wants, needs

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20121123: Easel computing by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #tablets

20121123: Easel computing by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #tablets
20121123: Easel computing by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #tablets
20121123: Easel computing by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #tablets
20121123: Easel computing by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #tablets

So, I’m predicting that the next evolution of tablet computing is to go larger. We’ll get the processor, ram, and display technology to take full-blown applications, like video editing, CAD, design, and programming to a flat, strong, light, portable surface. There will be lots of accoutrement  like stands, hangers, interesting mousing devices, and keyboards, but it will allow for full usage much like a tablet computer does now. I imagine the large names in tablets, like Apple, Wacom, and Google will emerge first as producers. Easel computing is what’s coming next.

tags: tablet, iPad, easel, nexus, Wacom, Google, computer, evolution, processor, ram, display

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20121122: Sliced by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #typography

20121122: Sliced by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #typography
20121122: Sliced by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #typography
20121122: Sliced by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #typography
20121122: Sliced by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #typography

So this one is pretty straightforward: In Inkscape, place some text with the text tool, convert to a path, ungroup, then union, so that the text is now a single path. Place a line across it with the Bezier tool. Select both paths and intersect, using the line to cut the text. Move the bottom part to the right, select and rotate the text.

tags: slice, cut, typography, cutting, knife, text, type

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20121121: Hell yes by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design

20121121: Hell yes by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design
20121121: Hell yes by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design
20121121: Hell yes by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design
20121121: Hell yes by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design

So, I decided to alter a font to make it more funky. In this particular case, it was a matter of making a line with the bezier tool set to the paraxial line segment mode, which constrains the lines to horizontal and vertical lines. I laid down the lines and rounded their angles and caps as they are in the font, I curved and angled the lines according to an invisible grid, mirroring the curves in the font.

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