Slogan thanks to meson1007 on deviantArt.
Not much happening here in Boston, it’s all good.
Category: Doctor’s Art
Bad Things
Inkscape: Book Cover
Sometimes I do some graphics work as a side job. This book cover has taken a while to do (fifteen revisions), but I’ve very pleased with it. Made in Inkscape using Ubuntu 10.10.
Doing this piece I found there are a couple of pieces missing from Inkscape for doing production work, perhaps this is why so many people use Scribus-ng. The normal workflow from what I have seen is to make artwork in Inkscape and then transition to Scribus for the nitty gritty of doing production.
I also did the structural editing of the book contents. That is using LibreOffice to haddle all the titles, paragraphs and types as class styles instead of ad-hock ms-word inline styles. Also dealing with the pagination and a bunch of other production issues. LibreOffice was an ok tool, but a lot of the interfaces are confusing and could do with some more design being brought in on them.
Your thoughts?
Art: Coats of Animals
Guess What
♬Oh the times, they are a changing!♫♥♥
Cartoon: Goodbye Groklaw, Thanks PJ!
PJ of Groklaw is shuttering groklaw, so there’ll be no more new content on the website. Groklaw has been a fantastic reference, both in following the SCO saga and with learning more about copyright and other legal issues. The newspicks were some of the best selected of any linux related website I know and they will be missed.
For you PJ, a cartoon that took me all day to draw:
Thanks for all the fish. Can’t wait to see what your next case is!
Free Culture Posters, Get Them Here
To celebrate the release of revision 16 of my Free Culture Tabloid sided poster, I’ve put together each section into it’s own US letter poster so that a multi-poster display can be created using all of the pieces.
Do you like the edits that have gone into each revision? Is the wording easy to understand and direct enough for public consumption? Please give me your thoughts in the comments below.
Fighting Talk
There has been a lot recently about community fighting. It’s been interesting, but also silly in a lot of ways because it’s a great deal about egos, and you know what happens when the immovable ego meets the unstoppable ego.
Congratulations Debian!
I made you a card to celebrate your new release:
It’s only a tool!
Perceptions are a funny thing, this isn’t true:
But plenty of people think it is.