We Made This Wallpaper* cover... - We Made This

We Made This Wallpaper* cover…

Well, sorta.

The clever kids at Wallpaper* magazine have done some mighty clever technological tinkering and created an online app that lets you design your very own one-off cover for their upcoming August issue - though you'll need to move quickly - designs have to be created by Tuesday 8 June.

The app is hugely intuitive, with a selection of elements to drag and drop: texts from Anthony Burrill (including WE MADE THIS, handily for us), shapes from James Joyce, textures by Nigel Robinson, patterns by Kam Tang, and images by Hort. You can customise things to a fair degree, particularly by layering, scaling and colouring the elements. Dead good.

Be warned though: once you start playing, it's fairly hard to stop...

posted: 3 June 2010
categories: Graphics | Illustration

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