{"id":494,"date":"2011-04-22T21:20:18","date_gmt":"2011-04-23T04:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smouldendesign.com\/blog\/?p=494"},"modified":"2011-04-22T21:20:18","modified_gmt":"2011-04-23T04:20:18","slug":"tech-meets-classical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/tech-meets-classical\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Meets Classical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap t\">T<\/span>oday was like a rematch against design. Yesterday I tried to make a new drop cap but failed horribly. I hadn&#8217;t made one recently and thought it would be a good time to do so. I was in a meeting talking about my health benefits (can you say boring) and started doodling. As a side note, I did pay attention and the speaker was very good at trying to make an impossibly entertaining subject as close to bearable as possible. Anyway, after my doodling session, I came out with nothing but crap.<\/p>\n<p>Its quite annoying when you try to make something both cool and original and all you get is original crap. I&#8217;m still a firm believer that 95% of all original things is total shit and people just have to sift through it to find a golden egg.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I tried again and created what I think is a pretty cool letter T. I tried to create a very simple serif letter out of techie-inspired wires forming the serifs. I wanted the wires and circuits to fill in the shapes using <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gestalt_psychology\" target=\"_blank\">Gestalt<\/a> (yay for design classes). I first drew it on a stickie note, scanned it, and traced it in my fave, Illustrator. Hope you like it as much as I do.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-495\" title=\"T Dropcap\" src=\"http:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/img013.gif\" alt=\"Letter T\" width=\"580\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/img013.gif 580w, https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/img013-300x206.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After failing to design a dropcap yesterday, I tried to do it again today and succeeded with Gestalt. <a href=\"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/tech-meets-classical\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[181,29],"class_list":["post-494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-typography","tag-design-theory","tag-drop-cap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":496,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions\/496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.shelbymoulden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}