Archive for the ‘design’ Category

I’ve been meaning to make vector versions of the cut, copy, and paste icons for months. Finally sat down to do it with the Free Culture board as we brainstormed t-shirt ideas this afternoon.

cutcopypaste.ai
That file is from Illustrator CS2. If you need another (more free) format, let me know. I’ll do my best to provide […]

Get closer to the action in this brilliant new rhythm/FPS. You’ve played violent games before but this time- you ARE the gun. The tension builds as you wait to be picked up. Finally, a space marine rounds the corner and grabs you on her way to killing the big boss. You wildly tap the space […]

Observing a 9th grade history class yesterday, I witnessed two interactions that blew my mind.
1. During lunch, several students used discarded lunch trays, staples, pens, and tape to craft foam Sidekicks and ENVs with sliding, flipping, and popping ’screens’. They then wrote notes on paper, folded them up, placed them inside of the closed phones, […]

When you enlarge things in Photoshop, it anti-aliases them to death. This is especially harmful to the integrity of intentionally pixellated imagery.
To circumvent this when enlarging icons and cursors for print, I have been using the following little hack:

Take a screenshot of the 72 dpi image.
Open it in Photoshop (or gimp or […]