Snowflakes have rules too
I’ve created dozens of snowflake designs over the past few years, many using this fine Make-A-Flake snowflake generator tool. I never once thought of any kind of rules that water molecules and crystalline structures obey for making real snowflakes.
This story from NPR was really cool.
What’s Wrong With This Snowflake?
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121827582
This is one of the many examples of why it’s interesting to be a designer and observant of other disciplines you briefly work around. I’ve cheated in a million ways to create digital imagery but some things can’t just be passable, they must be done properly. And there’s something very comforting about that even though it means more time.
December 24, 2009 at 2:51 am | design | No comment
