Measure Twice, Cut Once (Or Twice)

Measure Twice, Cut Once (Or Twice)

Advertising firm Barkley out of Kansas City, Mo., must be looking forward to winter. The company has the usual corporate website, but for at least a couple of years now it also has had a separate “Make-a-Flake” site at snowflakes.barkleyus.comwhere you can take a pair of on-screen scissors and cut up virtual snowflakes to your heart’s content. After making your flakes, you can post them to the site’s gallery. 

You also can download JPEGs of them that you can save or print (or, if you’re more ambitious, you can download editable EPS versions that you can use in other design programs like PhotoShop). Is it true no two snowflakes are alike? Well, just try to make the same flake two times in a row (yeah, we dare you). Evidently some people have tried to make some other rather . . . uh, unique designs, because the site includes a report option in case you run across “offensive” snowflakes. Stay classy!