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339 of 365 is made of tiny circles #Inkscape #design

Made of circles
Made of circles

I was inspired to do this by a picture I saw on ffffound — I started with a silhouette, made a small circle, then used Inkscape’s spraypaint tool to fill in the silhouette with clones of the small circle. Because the spraypaint tool is kind of messy and spontaneous even with the tightest settings, most of the work here was moving wayward circles back into the edges of the silhouette, as well as resizing and placing circles to follow the contour of it.

tags: circle, man, stance, standing, tutorial, technique, design, Inkscape, open source, creative commons, 365, sharism

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The revised Google motto by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #Inkscape #Google

The revised Google motto by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #Inkscape #Google
The revised Google motto by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #Inkscape #Google

I’m about the biggest fanboy that Google has, but I’ll also be the first one to tell you it’s kind of scary how much they know about me. I believe that they totally live up to their idea of “don’t be evil” and I love the things that they are doing to know me better, but it does make me hard to sell their ideas when the things that they do have a high creepy factor. I’m okay with a little creepy if it helps me get to my info quicker. I’m okay with Google knowing who I am.

tags: fan, Google, Gmail, calendar, iGoogle, Inkscape, design, typography, open source, creative commons, free, open, sharism

 

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337 of 365 is a polite request #Inkscape #typography

 

Asked nicely
Asked nicely

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

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335 of 365 are brass knuckles with pen nibs #Inkscape #proverbs

 

Brass knuckles with pen nibs
Brass knuckles with pen nibs

So, you have likely heard the saying that the pen in mightier than the sword. You can make your own joke here if you’d like.

tags: brass knuckles, pen, sword, mightier, proverbs, sayings, quotes, play, Inkscape, design, open source, creative commons, sharing, 365

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331 of 365 is x-rayted #Inkscape #bird

 

x-rayted
x-rayted

I don’t think I’ll be traveling overseas anytime soon. I understand the reasoning behind it, but I think it is ludicrous to have to choose between being visually strip-searched and being groped. When the first post-scanner bomber successfully emerges, I wonder what dignities we’ll lose next? Also, how long until we start seeing the supposedly unkept images presented as “The top 10 hottest scanned babes ever!”? Some parts of the time we live in are amazingly wonderful, and others are just… amazing.

tags: tsa, scanner, body scan, grope, strip search, visual, bomb, design, Inkscape, 365, open source, creative commons, sharism

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A heart attack of a different kind by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #Inkscape #design

A heart attack of a different kind by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #Inkscape #design
A heart attack of a different kind by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #Inkscape #design

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, InkscapeGIMP

Look at my favorite images from this project on the My Favorite Pieces page 

Image via CrunchBase

This image is Creative Commons Attribution licensed (cc-by lemasney)