Progressive Meandering

Today a boy-one-get-both-free deal. First, some inspriation:

And those good chaps over at Abduzeedo have written a great tutorial showing you how to create this in Fireworks or Photoshop, which you can find here.

I’m thinking of writing a similar tutorial using Inkscape / Paint.NET / GIMP, so watch this space!

Here’s a great 25 minute documentary on the London Underground Map, designed by un-employed draftsman, Harry Beck.

Via: Information Aesthetics.

It’s been a week, so here’s the next Wallpaper of the Week. 

This week’s composition started out life similar to this:

After some work in Paint.NET (a free Photoshop equivalent) the result is quite different!

Sizes:

• 1920×1200
• 1920×1080 (Full-HD)
• 1680×1050
• 1600×1200
• 1440×960
• 1280×1024
• 1280×960
• 1280×720 (HD-Ready)
• 1024×768

After an initial flurry of posts I’ve decided to reduce the daily quantity of “inspiration” posts to one. I’m hoping this will improve the quality of these posts, and also free up some time to develop some new ideas. So without further ado…….

Some fantastic modern work by MoodSwing08:

DeviantArt page: *moodswing08

Via: Abduzeedo

A fantastic series of images by Si Scott:

Via: Art Culture.