Word Play

Bored? Think you can't do anything interesting with a block of text without a handy dandy art director? Oh how wrong you are!

Create your own word clouds at www.wordle.net.

I chose a favorite passage of mine from Lesley Gore's "Sunshine Lollipops and Rainbows" cuz that's just the kind of day I'm having!

There's pretty much no productive value to this exercise whatsoever. But it is a nice break from the tedious work you do in front that ole monitor o' yours. If you are itching in the middle of some kind of monthly budget crunch or are just surfing for something different, play away.

This very cool java program puts regular Joes and Janes in the designer seat. And is another example of how fun design in general has become so much more accessible to all of us. Say what you will about the pitfalls of a computer age, but personally, I just don't know how my father spent a majority of his working life looking at blinking yellow letters and numbers on a bulky blank screen. I wonder what word clouds he would have made in 1982.