Friday, December 16, 2011

Subway Art




Well, I was inspired by some work I've seen for other cities so had to do my own take for our little town. Naturally I did my work in Inkscape. Most of it was just deciding placement and tones. I did decide to overlay a large "a" with the city, state and county names as the background.

In the sample here I've typed the background rotating the city and state. I also kept reducing the size and I adjusted the line spacing to 80% in the text editor. I duplicated about three times and then when I had enough copy for my "a" I selected Object to Path and Union to make them one unit. The "a" as you can see I set translucent enough to play with my placement then I, strangely enough had to Ungroup it in order to convert it with Object to Path. After both elements were path I selected both and using the Intersection feature in the Path menu.





Not sure why a couple of letters dropped out of the design...but not too hard to fill in...give it a try!

4 comments:

  1. OK, you've got me. I've got to get around to learning intersection if this is what I can do if I learn.

    Thanks these are very creative and useful for so many projects.

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  2. Thanks Sue! Yes, how easy to make some personalized cards for someone...might have to make that my next blog post!

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  3. Looks great Laura, I am definitely going to try this myself. Thank you for showing another creative way to use Inkscape.

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