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  1. Pro Twitter-rubin-300px Dan Rubin

    I've been meaning to play around with this technique for years, and am only just now getting to it. Haven't done anything to this other than tinting it (poorly), otherwise this is a straight scan of a print from a laser printer that is running out of toner.

    Now I just have to figure out what to do with it...

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    over 1 year ago

  2. Pro Avatar_cjd_600 Chris J. Davis

    Very nice. New design coming possibly... please?

    over 1 year ago

  3. Pro Twitter-rubin-300px Dan Rubin

    @Chris: new design has been coming for about 2 years already — I keep starting over and over and over... but it's nearing completion, finally.

    over 1 year ago

  4. Pro Me_glasses Grant Blakeman

    make a stamp!

    over 1 year ago

  5. Pro Avatar_cjd_600 Chris J. Davis

    * Does a little dance *

    Now to go home and make a little love, possibly get down tonight.

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    over 1 year ago

  6. Joshaustin Josh Austin

    Wow, I'll have to give that a shot...I'm always low on toner.

    over 1 year ago

  7. Pro Twitter-rubin-300px Dan Rubin

    @Grant: The left one makes me think of a debossed imprint on really thick stock — would look great on business cards, with each portion a different color ink (or paper + single color). A stamp's also a great idea (love stamps :)

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    over 1 year ago

  8. Pro Apple-touch-icon Luke Dorny

    Love it, naturally.

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    over 1 year ago

  9. Pro Hexagon-portrait-square-256 Scott Boms

    The old trick I've toyed with is running something out on a laser printer and using masking tape to pull up bits of the toner. You have to move quickly otherwise it really just starts tearing the paper...

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    over 1 year ago

  10. Pro Twitter-rubin-300px Dan Rubin

    @Scott: wait, so you're saying I could *replace* the toner cartridge with a *new* one???

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    over 1 year ago

  11. Pro Veer kern Patrick Haney

    So what does the "SB" stand for? Is that for some website or something?

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    over 1 year ago

  12. Pro Me_glasses Grant Blakeman

    @Dan - yeah, i did a custom stamp for a client project not too long ago - it's amazing what fun it can be on the right kind of paper stock. some sort of deboss would of course be excellent as well.

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    over 1 year ago

  13. Pro Dvq-logo Matthew Skiles

    Love the look of this.

    over 1 year ago

  14. Pro Joel-backyard-07-2011-med Joel Glovier

    @Scott I didn't even see this shot but the other day I was just trying that very thing for a logo redesign I'm working on. Except instead of masking tape, I used regular scotch tape, rolled up around my finger. It worked very well. I'll have to rebound this baby.

    over 1 year ago

  15. Pro Me Dan Higbie

    The texture of that paper is lovely.

    over 1 year ago

  16. Pro Dribbble Jesse Gardner

    I really, really like this approach. Sometimes simple analog is a thousand times more efficient and better looking then digital tweaking.

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    over 1 year ago

  17. Pro Tingo Rogie

    Me like. I like grunge. I like you.

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    over 1 year ago

  18. Pro Newj3 Jarred Katz

    that's a cool effect. wish my laser still worked when it's low on toner! instead, it clams up and begs for a refill!

    over 1 year ago

  19. Pro Tingo Rogie

    I failed to realize the process you did to get to this result. I absolutely LOVE when designers put down the mouse and use more traditional methods. Such a great idea. We all ought to design more like this.

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    over 1 year ago

  20. Pro Avatar_grass_failwhale Johan Bakken

    I'm assuming you made this for my baby http://styleboost.com, Dan.

    over 1 year ago

  21. Pro Ice-horse2 Birgit Zimmermann

    love the textures, and it looks like a great logo, too :)

    over 1 year ago

  22. Pro Twitter-rubin-300px Dan Rubin

    @Johan: Yup, along with SimpleBits and Sidebar. Why it's such a common combination of first letters, I have no idea.

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    over 1 year ago

  23. 912c5c4a158a11e180c9123138016265_7 Michelle Roman

    so nice.

    26 days ago

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