15 I really love typography play. Inkscape is my favorite tool, bar none, for this. I do it all the time. Enter a piece of text […] 20121204: Swirl, a typographic flourish by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org ...2012-12-04 in Illustration / portfolio tagged Arts / gaming / GIMP / Google / Graphics / Home / Illustration / Inkscape / John LeMasney / Typography / Vector Based / wedding / WordPress by lemsy (updated 1593 days ago)
8 I’ve looked at my stats, and people keep coming back here for a few things. In particular, people come for sketches about food, color, object as […] 20121203: Cupcake made of text by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org ...2012-12-03 in Illustration / portfolio / requests tagged Apple / Food / GIMP / Google / Graphics / Home / Inkscape / John LeMasney / Nutrition / Open source / Vector Based / wedding / WordPress by lemsy (updated 1593 days ago)
2 Sometimes in this project, inspiration just comes from the tool itself. I love Inkscape’s ability to easily duplicate and clone objects, and to have those […] 20121202: A cycle of motion with circles within circles by ...2012-12-02 in Illustration / portfolio tagged GIMP / Google / Graphics / Home / Inkscape / John LeMasney / Open source / Programming / Vector Based / wedding / WordPress by lemsy (updated 1593 days ago)
28 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 […] 20121122: Sliced by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #typography2012-11-22 in Illustration / portfolio tagged gaming / GIMP / Graphics / Home / Inkscape / John LeMasney / Knife / McDonald / Public library / text / type / Typography / Vector Based / wedding / WordPress by lemsy (updated 1593 days ago)
29 This image was fairly simple to do in Inkscape. I created a single line, duplicated it, curved the line, and repeated, increasing the curve each […] 20121120: A study in hexagonal geometry by John LeMasney via ...2012-11-20 in Illustration / portfolio tagged Arts / gaming / GIMP / Google / Graphics / Inkscape / John LeMasney / McDonald / Public library / science / technology / Vector Based by lemsy (updated 1593 days ago)
Inkscape makes it especially easy to manipulate the shape of text to meet the edges of a recognizable silhouette. I thought I might start adding […] 20121119: A shoe made out of text by John LeMasney ...2012-11-19 in Illustration / portfolio / requests tagged Android / Business / Design / gaming / Graphics / Home / Inkscape / John LeMasney / McDonald / Public library / text / Vector Based / wedding by lemsy (updated 1593 days ago)