Well, as the obsessive-compulsive person I am, I couldn’t wait to get Blank Slate up. So, instead of spending the morning studying for tests as I should have done, I made a new logo (which I like a lot) and updated all the files for the change.

I really ought to be studying. I really want to get to know Sketch better, though. It’s really cool. Kontour is okay, but Sketch is much nicer. The thought of the staggering possibilities is exhilarating. I’m giddy. What really excites me is the combination — Blender/POV-Ray, the GIMP, and Sketch, can be used to create some really cool art. Beyond that, I want to read up on typography and composition. There’s so much I don’t know about art and graphic design…

I discovered PfaEdit today. Wow. Very cool. It’s the only TrueType/Type 1 font editor for Linux, at least on Freshmeat. There are some GNU fontutils which supposedly can make Type 1 fonts, but I think they’re rather primitive and not anywhere near PfaEdit. I wonder if Gill (Raph Levien’s program) is still alive. The page was last updated in 1999, though, so I doubt it. [Update: I e-mailed Raph Levien; it’s not alive anymore.]

I made a bunch of logos for the BYU Unix Users Group. (This past week new officers were voted in, which means the club is finally going to be resurrected. There’ll be a new website and thus a new logo. My submissions are on the Visual Art page for now. I don’t really like the ones I have so far, except for #4, which is based on my Checker image.)