{"id":6180,"date":"2012-12-20T11:30:46","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T16:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/365sketches.org\/?p=5164"},"modified":"2025-11-14T22:36:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T03:36:39","slug":"20121220-a-honeybee-made-of-text-by-john-lemasney-via-365sketches-org-creativecommons-design-typography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2012\/12\/20\/20121220-a-honeybee-made-of-text-by-john-lemasney-via-365sketches-org-creativecommons-design-typography\/","title":{"rendered":"20121220: A honeybee made of text by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #creativecommons #design #typography"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5165\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a title=\"20121220: A honeybee made out of text by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #creativecommons #design\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/20121219a.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5165\" data-attachment-id=\"5165\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/20100929jimmy\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/20100929jimmy.png?fit=809%2C500&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"809,500\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Jimmy\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;This is a a very quick sketch of my cat Jimmy using the trackpad and Inkscape. It&amp;#8217;s a lot more fun drawing with a Wacom, but this was kind of fun too. &lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Jimmy&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/20100929jimmy.png?fit=809%2C500&amp;ssl=1\" class=\" wp-image-5165\" style=\"margin:5px;\" title=\"20121220: A honeybee made out of text by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #creativecommons #design\" alt=\"20121220: A honeybee made out of text by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #creativecommons #design\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/20121219a.png?w=700&#038;ssl=1\"  \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5165\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">20121220: A honeybee made of text by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #creativecommons #design<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s cold in here now. I miss summer, and its intense heat. Strangely, I miss the honeybees. They represent summer to me. When I was younger, I was\u00a0terribly scared of bees, but I&#8217;ve gotten a lot of experiences with them that endear me to them now. I have a lot of good associations with them, and I respect what they do. I&#8217;m worried about the effects of the dead hives phenomenon, and I hope that we find out what&#8217;s going on there. There&#8217;s another special reason that I&#8217;m posting this that I&#8217;ll keep to myself, but I bet that some of you might figure it out.<\/p>\n<p>lemasney, design, open source, creative commons, cc-by, typography, poster, Inkscape, GIMP, bees, honey, honeybees<\/p>\n<p>Look at lots of other images from this series at\u00a0<a title=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/lemasney\/portfolio\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/lemasney\/portfolio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/pinterest.com\/lemasney\/portfolio\/<\/a><\/p>\n This image is Creative Commons Attribution licensed (cc-by lemasney)\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\" style=\"font-size:1em;\">Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2012\/12\/16\/20121216-most-everything-means-something-by-john-lemasney-via-365sketches-org-creativecommons-design-cc-by\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">20121216: Most everything means something by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #creativecommons #design #cc-by<\/a> (365sketches.org)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2012\/12\/17\/20121217-symbols-of-nature-by-john-lemasney-via-365sketches-org-creativecommons-design-cc-by\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">20121217: symbols of nature by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #creativecommons #design #cc-by<\/a> (365sketches.org)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2012\/12\/13\/20121213-a-man-with-roots-firmly-planted-by-john-lemasney-via-365sketches-org-creativecommons-design-cc-by-tree-roots\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">20121213: A man with roots, firmly planted by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #creativecommons #design #cc-by #tree #roots<\/a> (365sketches.org)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s cold in here now. I miss summer, and its intense heat. Strangely, I miss the honeybees. They represent summer to me. When I was younger, I was\u00a0terribly scared of bees, but I&#8217;ve gotten a lot of experiences with them that endear me to them now. I have a lot of good associations with them, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1128,3654],"tags":[230,311,335,411,3870,599,854,923],"class_list":{"0":"post-6180","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-illustration","8":"category-portfolio","9":"tag-creative-commons","10":"tag-food","11":"tag-gimp","12":"tag-inkscape","13":"tag-john-lemasney","14":"tag-open-source","15":"tag-typography","16":"tag-wordpress","17":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/20121219a.png?fit=1200%2C700&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3h6y2-1BG","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5744,"url":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2010\/09\/16\/309-of-365-is-a-hippo-made-out-of-text-typography-design-inkscape\/","url_meta":{"origin":6180,"position":0},"title":"A hippo made of text by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #Inkscape #design #typography","author":"lemsy","date":"2010-09-16","format":false,"excerpt":"Loving that I've been creatively blocked lately and that these animal text creations have given me a way to stay active despite the block. 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