Interior. A painting by Fala. © falaatelier.com.

Readymag tip:

Emulate textured shapes by adding an image and cropping it.

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Using a collage approach, like in this example, draw your own room. Use the same material for objects resembling each other by a) function b) texture, c) style.

Readymag tip:

Use animations to make the graph dynamic.

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Imagine your day as a continuous line graph that changes its shape, color or saturation depending on your activity and emotional state. Mark the hours along the horizontal axis and make a graph that tracks your condition through the day.

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Readymag Design Workout

 

Choose a new task

A rainbow on the floor of the Apple Campus in Cupertino, CA.

Readymag tip:

If in trouble, go for icons from our collection.

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This is a picture of a trace that was left behind by an unusual creature. Help the police to create its sketch, keeping in mind that, according to all evidence, it was definitely not a unicorn.

A folder. Image via the Lifschitz family archive.

Readymag tip:

After you’ve chosen a font, look for text style and size that will fit the task.

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Propose a lettering for a folder containing the following documents:

a) a project for the hover train by

a Russian space pioneer Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, 1927;

b) a project for hexagonal game

'Hex' by a Dutch polymath Piet Hein, 1942;

c) a patent for Rubic's cube by

a Hungarian inventor Ernő Rubik, 1975.