Posts Tagged ‘logo’

Love Vector Images

Saturday, May 10th, 2008

It is with great pleasure that I announce that I’ve finally gotten around to recreating The Drama Society’s logo in glorious vector format, meaning that we can scale it up indefinitely for great victory!

I took the original, small and somewhat low quality JPEG we had (Since the original creator of the logo either didn’t leave us a high quality version, or it has become misplaced somewhere) and then ramped up the scale, despeckled, sharpened it and converted it to PNG in The GIMP. I then had a marginally better quality version to load into Inkscape and use the ‘trace bitmap’ feature on. Sadly this left behind some very wobbly edges due to scaling, so it was out with the path editing tool and some heavy-handed deleting of spline points. I think the result is quite good.

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iPhone: Lincoln Edition

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

Blackboard on an iPhone

I present Minerva, Roman goddess of wisdom and logo of the University of Lincoln, on the home page of my iPhone.

A bit more inventive than the usual screenshot of a page, and looking far more stylish on my iPhone’s home screen than the Blackboard login. The icon - for the curious - takes me to my university’s digital learning environment. Big kudos to All in the <head> for the original bookmarklet which made this possible.

Anyone else in Lincoln who is sad like me and has an iPhone/iPod Touch and links to Blackboard, the icon is at http://tn-uk.net/bbicon.png - you’ll need the above bookmarklet to use it.

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