Spelling Change just emailed me about their new project involving Obama-inspired letters, Obama supporters wearing letter T-shrits, and the fun way you can put them together. (The about page explains it best, actually.)
The site allows you to write Obama-related phrases (or anything you choose) using their fun politically-inspired alphabet (or make your own letters!), then you can embedd it on your webpage or purchase a T-shirt, sticker, poster, or postcard with the word you’ve created.
Fun!
My adventure-loving friend who joined me (or, er, I joined her) in Flushing and at Renegade, recently informed me that now you, too, can get your portrait painted like a Chinese propaganda poster at Maopost.com. The artwork is hand painted in oil on canvas by professional Chinese freelance artists.
You can choose from a variety of layouts and complete a solo or group portrait (maybe the whole family?!). They cost $180 to $270 (plus $35 for shipping) and are 24×15 inches to 32×21 inches.
This article from the New York Times really caught my eye, and I couldn’t resist sharing it with you, so just one more post to end the week and begin the weekend!
For those subway riders who get off before the last stop — almost everyone — the end is just a sign on the train. What’s there, anyway? It turns out there is often mystery, lonesomeness and beauty (NY Times).
This interactive “Going to the End of the Line” project includes photos, video, and audio from the “end of the line” (places most of us never see… unless we happen to live there) on NYC subways.
Some of my favorites from last week! (Links in the list below; right click to open in new window.)
Click on the images above or the links below to see some of my favorite blog-finds this week! Remember to right click to open in a new window! Have a wonderful weekend!
Since it’s book week and since this blog prides itself on finding creative things, I had to share the latest release from McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Hamlet (Facebook Newsfeed Edition). This just gets funnier and funnier as it goes. Read the whole thing here.
I recently discovered the new “got milk?” web-site while surfing NotCot.org. I love the white paper cut-out look, very milky. There are also lots of fun moving parts and colorful characters. An excellent example of corporate web-design (for those of us with fast enough connections to keep up with it).
My favorite part of the site? DIY projects for the crafty milk-drinker-recyclers among us. The downloadable pdf instructions are availible for both milk cartons and milk jugs. I know, it’s all a little kindergarten, but the youthful part of me can’t help but get excited.
So, a summer-fun post to end the week. As usual, I’m going to attempt a blogging break over the weekend. So, until Monday, enjoy the heat (especially you East Coasters like me)! Also, a reminder to subscribe to the Stickers & Donuts feed if you want (it’ll be fun, I promise)!
We (royal? blogosphere?) were all very excited when Veer created its Very Secret Order of Creative Understanding which included secret booklets, secret widgets, and secret handshake wallpapers. Those of us who got pretty booklets in the mail were extra-excited.
This summer Veer has a new treat for creatives: the annual Veer Summer Fun Activity Book (with extra online goodies!). Though the book can be downloaded in pdf, it would definitely be more fun to get your hands on a hard copy.
And, if you can’t get a hard copy, there are enough free web-goodies, no printing required, to go around. These include wallpapers (very cute!), games, and the ability to create a doodled world full of doodled creatures (this is actually very cool). Look above to see the world I’m working on.
One of the funniest parts about the Veer’s summer fun extravaganza is the printable Kernie monster and the accompanying contest encouraging you to take pictures of the Kernie doing all kinds of human things — or just standing next to badly kerned signs. How adorably dorky!
Stickers and Donuts is taking a little break for Fourth of July, but I’ll be back full-force at the end of the next week with delightful and lovely things. Thought I can’t promise I won’t post from the road.
So, happy fourth! Check out Urban Outfitter’s campaign blog, which is stocked full of beautiful election & political graphics like the one above from Scott Hansen at ISO50. All proceeds from the purchase of the above print go to Obama’s campaign.
So, I just got the newest issue of PRINT magazine in my mailbox (which is totally dedicated to typography, yay), and on page 14 I found TypeIsArt.com. (You know, so if I’m tired of Bembo’s Zoo, making fonts free online, and creating word clouds, then I have something else to do.) Type is Art states that:
“All letterforms are composed of 21 distinct parts. Most commonly these parts combine to form the characters of our alphabet. Type is Art allows for the experimentation of forms beyond this typical character set.”
You can see these “distinct parts” on the above poster from the Type is Art web-page.
Anyway, the best part of Type is Art is that you can create your own art online, for free! You can twist and turn letters and make them bigger and smaller. Most importantly, you can waste hours of what should be “work time.” And, really, that’s what the internet is for, isn’t it?
Click more to see my own Type is Art creation!
I cannot stop playing on Wordle, a site that lets you use delicious tags or text to create an artsy word cloud like one above made with my delicious tags (in fact, you can put in anyone’s delicious user name to create a word cloud). The more times a word appears, the bigger it is (look how big the word “design” is!). You can change the font, colors, orientation of text, etc.
The site is free, and you don’t even need to sign up!
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This week on the Storque’s News from the Craft + Style Blogosphere, A Print-a-Day’s terrariums were mentioned (Stickers & Donuts was mentioned last week concerning our Renegade Craft Fair Prints post!).
Anyway, back to terrariums. Aren’t these cute? I also love A Print-a-Day’s downloads section. I’m definitely going to be coming back for more!
Check out this article from the New York Times about designing your own font online! The best part? The service, run by font giant FontShop, is FREE (to create and use as an actual font on your Mac or PC) and you can look at tons of cool, new creations in the gallery. As soon as I use it, I’ll be sure to post a comprehensive review!
Not ready to make your own font? Download free fonts at one of my favorite font web-pages, or brush up (ie learns lots of things you never knew) on your typography skills with these fun, detail-oriented lessons on quite a pretty little web-site. If you are a typography nut like me, you can also check out all of the Stickers & Donuts posts related to typography.
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WORDCOUNT.org ranks words based on frequence of use. For example, “stickers” is the 18,703th most used word. You can look up words by word or by rank or you can just scroll around. (This is especially fun if you enjoy Word of the Day and want to know if the random word you’re given is ever actually used.)
You can also visit QUERYCOUNT.org (Number one? Sex.) which is formated the same way, but ranks the most searched words on WORDCOUNT.
Mostly, this site is web-design at its best (the site even won an award from AIGA)!
The above Exploding Dog drawing along with this “Safe Return Doubtful” drawing are both relevant to me at the moment. I am sure you can find something relevant to your life at Exploding Dog, since the artist makes drawings pretty much everyday. And if you can’t, you can email him a potential title. That is how he gets his ideas (which is why I am filing this under “public art”)!
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