Monovektor » Music http://monovektor.com Graphic Design Blog Thu, 10 Jan 2013 13:46:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.41 >>> SCANNING AREA http://monovektor.com/2011/10/scanning-area/ http://monovektor.com/2011/10/scanning-area/#comments Fri, 30 Sep 2011 23:20:47 +0000 http://monovektor.com/?p=1303 [more…]

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]]> In my on-going quest of finding ways to make nice and interesting textures (one of the reason that I’m on the lookout for an old analog Xerox machine), I read a tutorial somewhere (I really should make more use of ⌘ + B) where the guy writing had a pretty neat trick to create his own textures. He simply made a scan of empty air with the lid open. This, surprise surprise, only resulted in a empty, white image. Not very useful.
Until he bumped up the levels and a natural, colored distortion appeared as a frame around the image.

Hey, I just remembered! It was James Davies‘ tutorial over at PSDTuts+ and I was wrong, he scanned with the lid down. I however, scanned an empty bed with the lid open and got a completely different result. Especially when I inverted the colors.

The image was scanned at 600dpi so this copy is severely reduced in size and resolution but the details are pretty nice when observed close enough, as in the image below (click to enlarge).

Next I scanned my hand but held it an inch or two above the scanner to produce this blurry (due to both motion and being out of focus) image.

This was clearly at a time when I was listening to the Year Zero album by Nine Inch Nails.

]]> 1 BACK ISSUES http://monovektor.com/2011/09/back-issues/ http://monovektor.com/2011/09/back-issues/#comments Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:18:14 +0000 http://monovektor.com/?p=1244 [more…]

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]]> I just ordered some back issues – five to be exact – of IdN a couple of days ago. Great mag with diverse, new topics in every issue. I first heard about it when Nine Inch Nails art director Rob Sheridan twittered about being featured within as a glitch artist.

I was a complete stranger to this magazine and I had never before heard about glitch art (although I was always curious as to how he designed the With Teeth and The Social Network record sleeves) but it seemed good enough for a one-year subscription. No regrets there, every page in this magazine is jam-packed with enormously inspiring images and there’s not even a single advert as well. Apparently, I’ve missed out on quite a bit, but luckily they are available for back orders so these are the ones I have picked up. Looking forward…

IdN: v17n6 – The Minimalism Issue

IdN: v17n2 – The Retro Graphics Issue

IdN: v16n3 – The Typography Issue

IdN: v15n5 – The Geometric Issue

IdN: v15n4 – The Infographics Issue

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