The guys at lapin-bleu.net made a sexy little program called the textorizer that generates an image made made up of text. By inputting a sample image and adjusting certain settings such as font and number of strokes, the application outputs a PNG and a SVG (vector) of a texture of text resembling the image. There’s even a textorizer group on Flickr.
Nicely designed site, sexy bottles…wonder if the wine is any good?
If the LCBO workers don’t go on strike, does anyone want to bring me a bottle down from Ontario?
Ah, the Post-it–how would we live without it? I’m pretty sure I’d do fine, but according to 3M’s site:
Post-it® Products have been making the art of communication easier and
a lot of fun for over 20 years and come in many colors, sizes, themes
and shapes.
Well, Bang-yao Liu was definitely able to make some art with them in the stop-motion video he made for his senior project at Savannah College of Art and Design called DEADLINE.
Seems like the video got a lot of exposure on Youtube (more than a million views) due to a push from a well-known Tweeter named Ashton Kutcher.
Here’s the video:
253 to be exact. Argentinian designer and blogger, Diego Mattei, is offering a free download pack of of generic products/items/surfaces on white background, blank billboards and vehicles as JPEG images for your designing pleasure. So whether its to showcase a logo or to insert in a ad your designing, these will likely come in handy and save a few headaches.
Letterpress, custom die cuts, engraving—there are plenty of ways to get your business card to stand out from the rest. And you definitely want your business card to stand out (without being ‘too much’ or illegible) because two months down the line, when you’ve forgotten about that lead, it can possibly be the only way for you to communicate with your potential client.
This site of user submitted cards provides endless inspiration for your card design.
Clean, legible, Helvetica is possibly the most commonly used font in design. Heck, they even made a movie about it. That said, it’s still surprising how many of the world’s most recognizable brands use helvetica as the basis for their logos—many with no change to it all! Here are some examples, but get forty of them on webdesignerdepot.com:
Ever have trouble finding what font to use in your project of website? Flippingtypical.com is a neat online tool where you can type in your phrase and display it in your computer’s fonts. Call it a font visualizer if you like. Interestingly, it doesn’t show graphical representations of popular fonts–its actually the fonts installed on your system.
An interesting idea from European communications agency SPRANQ: a font that uses less ink. The Ecofont, which is basically the common Verdana font with holes in it, can supposedly use up to 20% less ink. Works best in sizes 9 or 10. You can download the free font here.
