Hot off the press!  The new Food Font signs for events are ready to go for the 2013 Summer season. Last year, There were over 13 public Food Font events, usually at farmer markets or community events where we setup a booth, and invite others to make alphabets out of food and to learn

One of the challenges of designing a tool like the Food Font Design tool  is that it is made for a wide range of people who will use the tool.  The buttons and interface need to be  intuitive, useful, and accessible for children and adults.  The buttons and menus have to work with dev

Today at work a colleague of mine asked me, “So when is the Food Font tool going to be ready?”  We talked about the process of developing programs and tools, and I gave him an update of the progress. So what is the progress?  After months of design work, the  interface and

The Food Font design is continuing and getting better!    The interface design has evolved to have smaller  icons on top, a resizable workspace, and no layer panel.  The Food Font alphabet selector, background selector, and other tools have been created. This weekend I am meeting with

This November I learned that Cleveland Magazine had been following the development of the Food Font project, and had chosen me as a recipient of the Most Interesting People in Cleveland Award.  I was interviewed by Kim Schneider, who writes about food for the magazine and also is the

This year we are challenging you to make a alphabet out of some holiday food  – from now until January 3rd.  Submit the pictures to the Food Font site, and we will send you a Food Font sticker.  Your alphabet  will be edited and loaded into the Food Font tool which will launch i

Recently a couple of messages have come in from people who are excited to use the Food Font design tool and do events in the future.  Some people also have been asking when it will be ready to use. One person contacted us last week and wrote, “I am so excited about the launch of the d

This Fall at the Ingenuity Festival event, a food alphabet was made out of apples. This week I am going to be editing and fixing up the  Ingenuity Apple alphabet, which means I will be editing and resizing each image so it is ready to use in the Food Font tool.  When working on this, 

This year is the first  Thanksgiving Food Font challenge. Make a Thanksgiving alphabet, submit the pictures to the Food Font site, and we will send you a Food Font sticker.  Your alphabet  will be edited and loaded into the Food Font tool which will launch in early Winter 2013. You ca

Thanksgiving is less than a week  away, and I have recently meeting people who stopped by one of the Food Font events in Cleveland.  A couple of weeks ago I posted an update with the number of alphabets and letters that were made this Summer and Fall, and I am still amazed by how many