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.

Color Masses. Kazimir Malevich.

Readymag tip:

Assemble a portrait from shapes and animate it to make it look more lively.

6

Using geometric shapes, create a self-portrait in this style, depicting yourself in three states: enthusiastic, indignant, sad.

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Readymag Design Workout

 

Choose a new task

A box. Mary Matson and Matt Even. Image via marymatson.com.

Readymag tip:

Our font collection offers a vast selection of typefaces.

 

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Select a number of objects and pick a concept for each of these that most thoroughly expresses the very idea of this object. Pick a font or create a lettering that will fit this concept.

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Readymag Design Workout

 

Choose a new task

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.

8

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.

Soviet control panel. Courtesy of Dmitry Barbanel.

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Readymag tip:

Play with animations offset to make them more realistic.

 

9

Imagine what this remote control may be used for and create a visualisation of what happens when you press some of the buttons.