NASA mission styled badges with Inkscape
Yet another benefit of having your content ready in advance, but it has its own downside too: with the beta delayed again and again I had to sit on this piece a couple weeks more than expected.
NASA mission styled badges with Inkscape
This time I have to start by giving credit where credit is due, since all the "NASA mission badges" concept, including the STS-98 reference, is shamelessly stolen from Zoltan (I hope I didn't gave away any of its ongoing projects).
So if I celebrated the Fedora 13 Alpha release with an Inkscape rocket drawing tutorial, I have to do something for Beta too (Beta is supposed to be bigger than Alpha) and after stealing the idea, making a Fedora themed badge in the NASA mission style seemed an obvious choice. Sure, you are not forced to use the same theme but use the instructions creatively. For me, I am aiming for something like this:
The badge
So a badge is usually round, let's start by drawing a circle (keep the Ctrl key pressed to preserve the aspect ratio):
Make sure it has no stroke and apply any fill color you like (going with the Fedora theme I used Fedora's dark blue):
Now we need a circled text, we will need a guide for that, so create another smaller circle (leave it in a contrasting color so is easy to work with each element):
Select the two circles and using the Align and Distribute dialog center them vertically and horizontally relative to the biggest object (the first circle):
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Wonderful! Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteHmm that will work on CD. A suggestion about inner circle (red and cyan), you can simply add white outline and remove both red and cyan fill without the need to delete both circle. Hope it helps
ReplyDeletewow nice. great tutorial too.
ReplyDelete@Luya: my preferences was to hide those circles completely and make some new ones for outlines because I wanted fine control of the outlines placement.
ReplyDeleteAwesome -- nice work Nicu.
ReplyDeleteawesome..i have always been a fan of the two: NASA and fedora
ReplyDeleteReally amazing work!!
ReplyDeleteThis is one of the best tutorials I have ever seen! Should be part of the Inkscape docs. Nice work Nicu!
ReplyDelete--gs
Thank you very much for this lesson, it's very good. Maybe in future you will post another lessons on this theme. It was very useful for me to create a stamp/badge with your lesson.
ReplyDeletethis particular tutorial was made following a request from a Fedora ambassador from Hungary, so please detail your request. (still, no promise :) )
ReplyDeleteI refer to: how to use Inkscape in different situations, another examples,situations. I liked your lessons because you explained very well, with capture screen and many steps,so finally I understand how to use this program to draw a stamp. In another order, do you have some tutorial about how to use macromedia flash 8?
ReplyDeletenope, i am not interested in promoting proprietary apps like Adobe Flash.
ReplyDeleteI'm interested to learn how to make animated exercises / simulations for some experiments/ for interactive lessons for my students and I'm using LMS platform eXe learning (which are open source) to do this but I want to improve the aspect;the platform allow me to integrated this type of files(swf). Because in many cases I don't find adapted content for them on net. Do you know if there are another program, open source, to make something like this? That's way I wrote to you.
ReplyDeleteEvery time I flip the circle at the mankind portion of the tutorial my text disappears! Any ideas?
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