typoGenerator! typoGenerator? OK, it’s a student project from Austria, so we’ll forgive Katherina Nussbaumer the unfortunate and vaguely menacing-sounding name for her nifty toy. (But please, Ladyk, please lose the gated entry to your site…). typoGenerator takes your text, does a Google image search, uses one of the results as a background, then adds some not-quite random text effects and colors to the image. You can re-render it changing any or all of those elements. The results are delightful – sometimes they’re very abstract (although that may be because “Jules Says” probably doesn’t return much in the way of image results.) Often they’re much better than I did in my recent collage class. I want to redesign this blog, so this was an interesting way to look for inspiration. I may just transform one of these into a banner. (Click each image to enlarge to 640 x 480)
Don’t let the similarity of some of the images put you off. I did a ton of these, and chose to display the ones that appealed to me. Clearly I have more of an inclination toward pastel/earthy colors than I realized.
I’m rather fond of the image at lower right, although I wouldn’t use something with a real person’s name on it. FYI, Gary Troup is apparently the author of Bad Twin (Hyperion)
