This weekend we had a Bright Bike workshop at Eyebeam. We wrapped about 15 bikes, and an additional 20 people took home materials to wrap their bikes at home based on the Bright Bike Instructable. It ended with a short critically-visible-mass ride around Chelsea.
Smashing success.
Here are pictures. Video coming soon.
The Takeovers and Makeovers conference was a hit. I had a superb time speaking with Fred Von Lohmann and Jason Schultz. I made everyone laugh, and swore more than Tom McDonough, which is apparently no small feat.
I am spending the week doing final wrap up on the Digital Foundations book, which goes to the printer on Friday(!)
And pre-gaming the Eyebeam Roadshow, which begins on Saturday at Mills college.
I just published a new Instructable: Laser Cut Stencil Letters
I’ve been working on the design for a few art-objects that need laser-cut letters, and decided it would be good to prototype some letters first, to get a sense of what’s required. There are a lot of “stencil fonts” out there to be had for free, but a lot of them are pretty limited stylistically so I have been working with creating “laser-safe” versions of other more decorative, less industrial fonts. In this case, I am using Zapfino.
Cutting laser lettering started with a present for my father, then a present for a friend, and a wedding present, and I just made an Instructable based off of a package of fashion show schwag that I gave to someone. It seemed a great
opportunity to test out a few techniques, and the result was a stylish success. In fact, the usefulness of having a laser or stencil-friendly version of a font was so novel, I started working on an OpenType version called Stencilano that will be available for download soon.
Stencilano:
The wedding Present:
Making the Schwag:
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