wantist...

I am wondering around the web late tonight and found WANTIST.  This site is so fun to browse...it spotlights super cool places, products, food, games, household things: basically - lots of things that could be gifted to well-deserving people in your life.  Very hip, unique gift ideas for all.  I love stumbling upon sites such as this.  It makes the lost hours of sleep so worth it.

Word Art

I love fonts.  I have almost 7,000 of them on my laptop.  It's a sickness.  I also love to design with words.  My 'quotes' file is jam packed and I love collecting and bookmarking ideas for designs. If I had unlimited time, I would love to play with and make things from these ideas.  A few years ago I started making these word collages for some of my family members:

I gathered words from siblings &/or children and then, with my Illustrator program, choose 3 or 4 fonts and 2 or 3 colors and started placing the words like a puzzle.  They turned out to be really meaningful, personal gifts that could then be framed as a piece of art.

A couple of months ago, I came upon an interactive site called WORDLE.  I wish I would have come up with it.  It allows you to enter words (as many as you want) into a form and then when you click the 'GO' button, your words become a really cool design piece.  You can then choose to randomize the document and it will switch it up with different fonts and colors.  I did learn a couple of tricks as I was playing around on the site such as: the word(s) that are repeated become the largest, and it's a good idea to keep a copy of your text just in case you want to try a bunch of different designs.

Here are some of my favorite creations that others have posted from the site:

And here are a couple that I did on the site:

This is text from one of Elder Uchtdorf's talks

This is text from 'A Proclamation to the World'

I love them!!  I will definitely use this amazing site for some of my 'word/font/quote' projects.