Creating Type Spirals

August 26, 2011 at 9:32 pm

I was help­ing some­one under­stand type on a path and how to arch, warp, & bend text when I thought of this real­ly cool idea. The fol­low­ing tuto­r­i­al will show you how to build inter­est­ing spi­ral shapes with a sim­ple string of let­ters using Adobe Illustrator and the Warp Effect Arc.

Example of the Final Product

Type Spiral Tutorial Final Example

Tutorial Details

Program: Adobe Illustrator CS3
Difficulty: Beginner
Topics Covered: Warp Effect, Smart Guides, Rotate Tool
Estimated Completion Time: 15–20 minutes
Required Files: None

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Firefox 4 Panorama Tutorial

March 30, 2011 at 10:31 pm

Here is a quick screen­cast of the new Firefox 4 Panorama/Tab Groups fea­ture. I think it’s a pret­ty nifty helper for orga­niz­ing things since I some­how wind up with 2 win­dows open with 10–20 tabs in each win­dow. That can get pret­ty crazy jump­ing back and forth and around. Let me know what you think of the video.

I record­ed it with the free ver­sion of Jing and there’s a few things I’m not thrilled about with the shar­ing and stream­ing so I think I’m going to go ahead and step up to some­thing like Screenflow and a YouTube chan­nel for bet­ter record­ing, dis­tri­b­u­tion, and over­all betterness.

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