Half way home and my pager's still blowin' up

For those of you who have never heard of Threadless.com, it’s an online apparel company that get’s it’s designs from a vast community of designers who submit their own work to be voted on by others with hopes to get their design chosen for printing. It’s a great concept that seems to create a wealth of awesome shirts and hoodies. If you’ve never been to their site, you should check it out.

I’ve been a non-active member of Threadless for about 5 years now, but up until last night, I had only purchased shirts from them. A few weeks back I had an idea pop into my head to create basically the design you see above, but then thought that maybe it would work well as a shirt design. After a lot of procrastination I finally got around to making it last night and I submitted it for approval. If it is approved, people can start scoring my submission, and the higher the score it gets, the better it’s chances are of getting printed. So check it out if you have a sec, and if it gets approved you’ll probably end up hearing a lot more about it from me in the coming days.

Inspiration: Ice Cube – It Was A Good Day

Benelogo, originally uploaded by GBMB.

Killing time before heading down to Orange County. I took his existing logo and just turned it 3D in Cinema 4D and gave him a slogan, since every good business needs a slogan.

AC/DC Smoke

Originally uploaded by GBMB

trapcode particular + sound keys test

AJ showed me an awesome music video the other day and asked how they did it, so i tossed together a particle system and grabbed a song from my itunes to test it out. not nearly as cool, but somewhat close. i need particular 2.0 i think.

Found this site that generates word clouds out of your website or any selection of words you choose. It’s surprisingly customizable and easy to use. Check it out!

Wordle.com via helloluxx

]]> http://goodbyemailbox.com/creative/word-clouds-are-fun/feed 0 http://goodbyemailbox.com/creative/whos-your-lifeline http://goodbyemailbox.com/creative/whos-your-lifeline#comments Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:48:06 +0000 Derek http://goodbyemailbox.com/blog/index.php/?p=377 If I ever ended up on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, I know that I would want one of two people to be my phone-a-friend. Jesse Collier or Matt Lundstrom. They’re my go-to guys when I have a question about damn near anything. Both are well-versed in computers and technology, while Jesse seems to have a slight lead with pop culture. Having them as friends is like having my own custom wikipedia.

The other day at work I was asked to design a graphic that was to be printed and affixed to a small trashcan. The prop was going to be used as an over-sized cup of soda for a shoot that we had coming up. After measuring the circumference of the base and rim of the trashcan as well as the height, I thought I had figured out everything I needed to know. I created a design in photoshop that was 36″ on top, 30″ on bottom and connected the ends of the two lines that were separated at the right distance forming a trapezoid. After printing up a small scale model I found the one major flaw in my design; it needed to be designed in an arc in order for it to wrap around the trashcan neatly.

After scratching my head for a few minutes I decided I wasn’t clever enough to figure out how to calculate the angle of the arc. I saw that Matt was online so I asked him if he could help. I gave him the dimensions of the can and a description of what I needed to accomplish. In about 5 minutes, he came back and IM’d me this file. Ridiculous.