Ampersand love in design has been around for a while, and yes, we’re part of that group too. My first introduction to this logogram was as a kid watching Wheel of Fortune – I always thought it was so neat that you could get the ampersand for free.
So fast forward to now: an ampersand in our working space is just what we need. Continue reading »
Check out how to make your own digital coat of arms (via DESIGNwathcher’s blog).
Here’s my quick and dirty design. (These were originally conceived for owners of Toyota Scions but could be easily altered using Photoshop.)
We’ll have a similar design and some others available as temporary tattoos at the Spins & Needles Mad Crafter + DJ Outdoor Party this Thursday!
We’re also thinking this could be sweet new sticker street art!
Inspired by those Keep Calm and Carry on posters that are popping up in so many house tours, I thought it would be neat to do a varation using some of the Spins & Needles slogans. Particularly since the theme of the Spins & Needles July 2009 installment will be mixing crowns, croquet, DIY and DJs (think British royalty meets Alice in Wonderland). I’m going to print a couple of these up and hang them in our new apartment.
To make these two posters, I used Photoshop to create a white block image of the Spins & Needles logo, and used the Gill Sans font for the slogans (not the exact same font used in the original poster but pretty close). Then selected royalty-theme colours (royal blue and purple) for the background.
The story behind the resurgence of the poster is really interesting: the fact that a once obscure WWII poster from the late 1930s/early 1940s found at the bottom of a box in Northern England is now found in houses all over North American and Europe. And that it has inspired a whole new legion of posters, including the Get Excited and Make Things poster – a more active, DIY response to the older poster? and the Keep Calm and Rock On poster.
More info will be posted about the July 2009 Spins & Needles event in Ottawa within the next week! Stay tuned.
