The website 'Wordle' was recommended to me sometime ago. Kind of forgot about it, but the other day found the little note with the link, when I was tidying up my desk. I love incorporating words and text in my work. More often graphics is more important to me than the actual meaning of the words, so finding 'wordle' has been a lot of fun. On the web site you are able to create word clouds. You can either write/copy and paste a text, import an URL, or import your tags from Delicious. The word clouds that I have created here for this blog post are based on imports from my Etsy shop and my tags on Delicious. The results are just stunning. Don't go to the site unless you have more than a moment to spare. It is so addictive. (Don't say I didn't warn you :-) If you don't want to create your own clouds, then browse the gallery, for some stunning examples, that changes all the time.
The other day I mirror imaged a wonderful word cloud before printing it on a transparency (for ink jet printing). Painted some acrylic mat medium on to fabric, while still damp (you have to work quite quickly), I pressed the printed text transparency with the rough side down into the medium. Rubbed it with a spoon. And presto. The word cloud was transferred with the writing the right side up on to the fabric. Pretty neat. I could get carried away with this..... Here is the link you you want to have a play: Wordle
Etsy shop cloud:
6 comments:
This looks fun!!!
Great link! Thanks for sharing.
This is great! I love typography and this can be used for many things. Thanks
You are all welcome :-)
I just love this site! I have printed tons of the clouds, as they are just so lovely. My dear husband made a comment about just having changed the printer cartridge the other day, and now his prints seemed a bit pale... hmm....??? :-)
Birgitte
how cool!! thank you for this, its heaps of fun!
Ooh I like these! Going to have to have a go :)
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