Ok I speak english like a dyslexic frog, but isn't there a contradiction between 5"x5" at 300dpi and 360x360 pixels ?
Are we supposed to send only a low res file in RGB to display in the gallery, and keep a high res CMYK ?

Sorry, it seems the more I read the specs the less I'm sure about what I should provide :/

That's 360 x 360 POINTS, not pixels.

Elv

What you need to send is a 5"x5" at 300dpi CMYK file.
That's it

If I were a betting man, five bucks would say there will be a typographical treatment where the go is slanted, a motion blur is applied, and it's exiting to the right of the square. And ten, count 'em, ten bucks would say Tselentis puts a green stoplight behind Bush or gives him a go-go gadget helicopter hat.

Is the word Go or Ready? Both are bold.

I first assumed the word was Ready, but Dave indicates it's Go. I'm ready to go with either.

I too am confused. Which word is it?

I thought the word was READY...

now I'm confused!

Please Speakup, Mr. Vit, Bryony, please abandon the incessant Word Its and Quipsologies and stick to discussion with substance. More of it. We can find links to interesting websites everywhere. By the time you post these links, most of your community has seen them already or will find them soon. The effort is distracting. Word Its do nothing at all. Please focus on what brings meaning to this forum.

Dispatch from Venice: Ready

the Word Its are what i most look forward to... i say rock on, Word It, rock on.

Oops, sorry for the confusion...I only read the front page and saw the bolded Go. My fault.

> Word Its do nothing at all

I disagree. They are a small, harmlessly fun creative outlet for many people, not to mention the subject of an upcoming HOW book and an exhibit at the Cooper-Hewitt museum in New York. So they must be doing something right. I will agree that not all are always winners, but overall it hardly detracts from the daily SpeakUp experience. Community doesn't need to be defined solely by the comments section.

i'm ready.

word it forever, yo.

^^ you're forgetting that the internet is SERIOUS BUSINESS

J. Tyler,

Word it is about as close as it gets to a true designer's forum, in a designer's medium. I would go as far as to say it is the living avatar of the SpeakUp brand.

I love the whole concept behind the "WORD IT." It's a great design excercise to allow you to get your creative juices flowing. It's definetly a release from the day-to-day client relationship where the client slowly prys away every ounce of creativity you were trying use in the beginning of the "said" project.

It's definetly a release from the day-to-day client relationship where the client slowly prys away every ounce of creativity you were trying use in the beginning of the "said" project.

Sounds like you are working for the wrong clients....

'Word It' could be great... if some people didn't submit such crap. Don't get me wrong there are some really clever submissions but far too many make me CRINGE.

Since go is out of the picture, if I were a betting man, five bucks would say there will be a typographical treatment where an centered lowercase e is colored red on a plain white background.

Word It's are good. It reminds me of some of the assignments we would get in design and sculpture class.

If anything I do feel that sometimes the choice of word makes the Word It project either elementary or not interesting.

Just an official word from Mr. Vit:

1.
Word Its will not be abandoned. Yes, they are incessant and we like it that way. As with anything else in this world, one can choose not to pay attention.

2.
5"x5" or 360x360 pixels/points are physical dimensions that are exactly alike. It is the resolution, 300 dpi that makes one bigger over the other.

3.
Quipsologies will not be abandoned. They are weekly incessant, on Mondays. Again, one can choose to not read them. The in-the-hundreds click through on the links we provide suggests that many of our readers are seeing the links here for the first time. We don't claim to own first-use on many of them, we just feel responsible to bring them to people's attention.

4.
The request of getting back to "discussions with substance" is duly noted.

Although it didn't occur to me to use a solitary e, one of my early ideas for ready was a red Y, meant to be seen as a read Y as well as an implied anagram. Also meant to make Dan cringe.

The Committee of Requests for More Rubber Chicken Jokes has duly noted Mr. Vit has callously ignored their Request for More Rubber Chicken Jokes.

Good sir, I shall see you in court.

Is this a record number of responses for a word it announcement?

If not, is it now? (You know, with my post?)

Also, is incessant the word Tyler was really looking for? Maybe he meant insipid. Incessant tends to be unyielding. Insipid is more like unyieldingly bad.

Not to say I think Word Its are insipid. I like them. It's a chance to just do something and not worry about who's going to like it. Though I do notice some come up randomly more often than others... so there must be a critic somewhere.

Alright. Enough insipidness. I'm ready.

Is there an over-supply of barbiturates this month?

I thought that was ok.

but I couldn't bear with

GO! GO!
Who? Me?

Is this a record number of responses for a word it announcement?

Indeed, my dear.

Ready, set, go!

R.

It would be greatly appreciated if everyone would read the specs for the files, as this week I had to ask 16 different people to resend their artwork due to compliance issues.

Also, do not send your Word It until you are satisfied with it. It is very hard for me to know which one of the seven different iterations you sent over the last 3 hours is really the one that you wish to see published.

I thank you for your understanding, as huge files come into my inbox every few minutes these days and more than half turn out to be trashed by your petitions.

Mhh I guess I've been into webdesign and abandonned print for too long, if I mistake points for pixels :) Sorry about the confusion!