12th
October
2006
“If you are a fan of pop art then you’re probably already well acquainted with the work Roy Lichtenstein. Roy Lichtenstein became one of the leading pop artists of the sixties with his comic-strip paintings. .. Benday dots were Lichtenstein’s trademark. Benday dots are a printing process which combines two (or more) different small, coloured dots to create a third colour. Back in the day, pulp comic books used benday dots in primary colours to inexpensively create the secondary colours such as flesh tone. You can create the benday dot effect by using the Colour Halftone filter found in Photoshop, however in this tutorial I’m going to show you a way to create a fantastic looking black and white Halftone Pattern. ‘Why?’, because I like the look of it better.”
posted in Illustration | Permalink |
12th
October
2006
“The computer keyboard helped kill shorthand, and now it’s threatening to finish off longhand. When handwritten essays were introduced on the SAT exams for the class of 2006, just 15 percent of the almost 1.5 million students wrote their answers in cursive. The rest? They printed. Block letters. And those college hopefuls are just the first edge of a wave of U.S. students who no longer get much handwriting instruction in the primary grades, frequently 10 minutes a day or less. As a result, more and more students struggle to read and write cursive.”
posted in Language | Permalink |
12th
October
2006
“This is a tiny little site focused on the variation in the signs placed on the right rear of most trucks we see on the roads. You see, when large trucks make a right turn, they swing a little bit wide to the left first. Simple idea. Many ways to express it.” (Thanks Coudal Partners!)
posted in Visual thinking | Permalink |
