Tag: design
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Japanese stab binding #53, dancing triangles
I thought about naming this drunken triangles or dizzy triangles. It’s pretty straightforward, especially with only 31 holes to punch.
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Japanese stab bind #52: diamond gems
I have a backlog of patterns I’ve sewn and photographed, yet not had time to post. This bind continues on the circle theme. 64 holes, pretty straightforward sewing. Advanced beginner?
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Japanese stab binding #49: giraffe
I’ve started a series of animal stab binds, just to see how many I can create and how recognizable they are. Next up, elephants and a lion! This giraffe bind has 55 holes and is only complicated in the middle, as the holes look random when unsewn and knowing which…
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a fontified version of The Princess Bride
I’ve been playing with lasers again! These designs were created as prizes for my office. We’re a bunch of nerdy geeks who create fonts for publishing minority languages. Last year we started taking bits from the ‘team movie’ of The Princess Bride and twisting them to our own silliness. There…
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glyphs: “shovel face” font
Most of the font work I do is with FontLab, but lately I’ve been taking time to experiment with both Glyphs and FontForge. I have test fonts going for both, because there isn’t any better way of learning font design software than creating the letters from scratch (merely opening an…
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japanese stab binding #38: snail
Another spiral. I am actually not too fond of snails, as I think they’re gross and slimy (and I encountered way too many when I lived in England)…but how could I not try for the stab pattern? You could modify this and make the snail’s body longer, but I thought…
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japanese stab binding #37: sushi
I’ve been on a spiral kick lately. I was going for cinnamon rolls with this design, but was informed that it looked more like sushi. Later I might try a vertical, ‘stacked’ version so the sushi pattern is more obvious when the book is displayed correctly. But here you go!…
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Coalescence, revisited
A couple of years ago, I finally completed my thesis project for grad school. It started with a font I created. I really liked the design, and the meaning I had ascribed to it. But all I had time for were the lowercase letters – and being so new to…
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Amaliah Italic
I’ve been meaning to post this for a while. I don’t think I ever posted an update to Amaliah regular…or even had a name for it in the first post. Part of the reason for my slacking is because I think font screenshots are boring and I couldn’t remember to…
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a little Sharpie fun
I made this for a friend’s birthday. Please pardon the poor lighting. I don’t have time to take a picture in the daylight. But good daylight is kind of hit or miss in England anyway… Seven colors of Sharpie marker, eight including the silver. On a brown paper envelope…