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Posted 11 months ago

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ATARI 2600 CARTRIDGES MAKE EXCELLENT BUSINESS CARD HOLDERS

Violet Tchalakov and Mike James (aka PRINTandGRAIN) have this incredibly clever business card holder for sale over at their Etsy Store.  Not only is the design clever but they can take it one step further with custom labels for your card holder. 

The custom part of this item has you pick your favorite 2600 game which they can customize the titles as well as the top facing label.  This is such an brilliant repurposing of classic video game equipment that it makes it worth the $75 asking price for something that unique.

(via: otlgaming)

Video Games and Whales

YES 

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Posted 2 years ago
This one was a doozy. I had a week to create a image in my Graphic Design 1 class using a Compound Word and using images related to the word to create a new one. I went a completely different path than the rest of my class and I payed dearly for it. I chose the compound work Supersonic because of it’s relation to Sonic and that no one else would choose Supersonic… except me, of course! X)The effect I was looking for didn’t work out nearly as well as I’d hoped, but that’s what you get for doing something so ambitious in ~6 hours.The images seen here are of characters that have had games with Super in their game library: Super Mario Bros, Super Metroid, Super Bonk, Super Bomberman, the list goes on. Obviously I chose more recognizable characters… that’s so I could convey that this image was made up of games with Super in their title without having to spell it out.Each image was live traced (because of time…), and each image layed together like a puzzle peace by hand (about half of it anyways, copy-paste is your friend!). Than I used the Pathfinder tool to separate where the Super Sonic image and the other images meet, and than changed those that meet to %100 Opacity (again, by hand…).I think I did okay… It still didn’t work out as well as I’d had hoped, so I might re-do this in the future to make Super Sonic more visible. Other than that, enjoy! Zoom

This one was a doozy. I had a week to create a image in my Graphic Design 1 class using a Compound Word and using images related to the word to create a new one. I went a completely different path than the rest of my class and I payed dearly for it.

I chose the compound work Supersonic because of it’s relation to Sonic and that no one else would choose Supersonic… except me, of course! X)

The effect I was looking for didn’t work out nearly as well as I’d hoped, but that’s what you get for doing something so ambitious in ~6 hours.

The images seen here are of characters that have had games with Super in their game library: Super Mario Bros, Super Metroid, Super Bonk, Super Bomberman, the list goes on. Obviously I chose more recognizable characters… that’s so I could convey that this image was made up of games with Super in their title without having to spell it out.

Each image was live traced (because of time…), and each image layed together like a puzzle peace by hand (about half of it anyways, copy-paste is your friend!). Than I used the Pathfinder tool to separate where the Super Sonic image and the other images meet, and than changed those that meet to %100 Opacity (again, by hand…).

I think I did okay… It still didn’t work out as well as I’d had hoped, so I might re-do this in the future to make Super Sonic more visible. Other than that, enjoy!

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Posted 2 years ago
This was the second of 5 iPod posters that I had to create as my first project in Graphic Design 1. Because the topic was about being focused, I tried to keep the prettiness to a minimum. The stretched shadow behind Focused was to make you feel like it’s pulling you into the text. Zoom

This was the second of 5 iPod posters that I had to create as my first project in Graphic Design 1. Because the topic was about being focused, I tried to keep the prettiness to a minimum. The stretched shadow behind Focused was to make you feel like it’s pulling you into the text.