We just heard about the un-free one from our friends at Yellow Owl Workshop and it WILL NOT STOP BLOWING OUR MINDS. It’s a new digital sketch pen from Wacom called the Inkling, and it allows you to sketch on paper—like we’re all so used to doing—and capture the digital likeness of your sketches, translating them to vectors and even going as far as allowing for layer creation in programs like Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. If you’re not a designer or illustrator or at least familiar with digital design, you may well be like, “Meh? Meh.” Otherwise, you, like us, are probably a lot more like “WHA? WHAAAAAAAAAAAAA!” To you, we say—We totally agree. Now get it together, dude. Check out the video below. And yes, that robot is awesome.
The other design find was brought to our attention last week by our good friend, Jacob. Again, if you’re not familiar with the design field, you may not be aware that, as designers dealing with layouts for print or Web pieces you’re often in need of some filler text. Now, you don’t want to just copy a word and hit the paste key a million times because a) this looks lame, and b) this doesn’t demonstrate a dynamic layout or give a realistic impression of how elements like images will interact with the layout.Should latin be totally bumming you out, you can also opt for “Hipster, neat.” So, got a client with a sense of humor (we’re about to find out, by the way)? Get fillin’!
