Archive for December, 2009

Why Not?

23rd

December 2009

Just been trolling around on the web and stumbled upon this interesting article over at Smashing. It’s an intriguing concept, to design something new every single day, something that I might embark on.

While I definitely don’t have an idea of what I’ll do, I did like Mike Duesenburg’s album cover idea. It’s something that I’ve been doing of late anyway, if albeit for real albums or fake complications on iTunes, so I decided to give it ago.

You basically make use of the random article link on Wikipedia to get your artist name and grab the last few words from the last quote on The Quotations Page. Mine? Siem Bouk District with Intellectual Eye. I’d lucked out here, or so I thought. The final piece of the puzzle is imagery from Flickr’s commons pool (the 3rd one on the 1st row). 20 minutes later and I ended up with this…

1-siembouk

While it’s far from a masterpiece, this is definitely an enjoyable idea. Whether I have the item to make 365 of them in 2010 is a different matter, it would be a challenge though.

A challenge I challenge you to, at least, give ago.