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Back to School
School is back in session! First year students at my alma mater, SVA IxD (more formally the MFA Interaction Design at the School of Visual Arts) got a special treat to welcome them. Christine Aaron, Assistant to the Chair and all round amazing person, hand lettered everyone their own personal coaster.
Christine was kind enough to share a little of her process with us:
"I created these playful custom coasters for each of our incoming students to help welcome them to the MFA Interaction Design department during orientation week.
First, I sketched each student's name, and scanned the drawings in. Relying heavily on Adobe Illustrator, I initially began tracing all of the lines with the 'Pen' tool in Adobe Illustrator, and soon realized that we could preserve more of the original hand of the drawings (and save time!) by instead tweaking settings with the 'Image Trace' tool, which interprets raster images into vector. The vibrant colors are pulled from the MFA Interaction Design department's identity."
Thanks Christine! They turned out beautifully, those first years sure are lucky.
Want to make extra special coasters too? Just drop us a line!
Coasters at work
At Coastermatic we like to talk a lot about coasters at home. However, we drink a lot of coffee + water at the office too, and evidently those beverages are feeling left out.
Over at Thinkful, Fahm makes the case for coasters at work. You definitely can't beat his logic.
Do you have sad cups at work? Make them happier by starting your set.