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Logoglyphs Explained: Cartography
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Cartography: Relating to the art or technique of making maps or charts.
What better thing to use for a image relating to maps than topographic lines, like you'd see on a map? The bands between the lines gradually change from blue at the outside to light green in the center; I took symbols from Version 4, laid them over this design, and made them semi-transparent, sort of like tissue paper. Then I made the topographic lines bright red.
Cartography: Relating to the art or technique of making maps or charts.
What better thing to use for a image relating to maps than topographic lines, like you'd see on a map? The bands between the lines gradually change from blue at the outside to light green in the center; I took symbols from Version 4, laid them over this design, and made them semi-transparent, sort of like tissue paper. Then I made the topographic lines bright red.
Sunday, July 6, 2008
Logoglyphs Explained: Cabinetmaker
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For this design ( a cabinetmaker is, of course, an artisan specializing in making fine articles of wooden furniture, including cabinets) I envisioned two cabinet doors, with a frame all around and inlaid wooden bands zigzagging across the front. Wood colors, of course--in this case various shades of tan.
For this design ( a cabinetmaker is, of course, an artisan specializing in making fine articles of wooden furniture, including cabinets) I envisioned two cabinet doors, with a frame all around and inlaid wooden bands zigzagging across the front. Wood colors, of course--in this case various shades of tan.
Logoglyphs Explained: Brambleberry
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I'm pretty sure this design was applied to a different word before I used "brambleberry," because those types of bushes (a prickly shrub of the genus Rubus, including the blackberry and the raspberry) don't have 3-petaled flowers (if any do at all). But I did what I did. The lines that make up the glyph design are widened to bands, and the "flowers" laid over them, and the whole thing done in plant-y and flower-y colors.
I'm pretty sure this design was applied to a different word before I used "brambleberry," because those types of bushes (a prickly shrub of the genus Rubus, including the blackberry and the raspberry) don't have 3-petaled flowers (if any do at all). But I did what I did. The lines that make up the glyph design are widened to bands, and the "flowers" laid over them, and the whole thing done in plant-y and flower-y colors.
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