I got my hands on GIMP a while back (GNU Image Manipulation program—like Photoshop, but free and open source), and I used it to make this a couple of days ago:
I've had the idea for this since last year, but only with GIMP could I actually make it happen (fuck doing that in Paint). I didn't make the background, though; you'll find that here.
I wanna make another version where it's just the word 'IMMUNE', but the letters are made out of tiny logos, all working together to make the word. I think it's more subtle, and it gives me the chance to a) use more logos, and b) not be restricted to logos shaped like a letter, which were actually really hard to find. The 'N' in 'ADVERTISING' is the logo for near field communication, which isn't a business, but a set of standards that enables radio communication between portable electronic devices. Using that logo is almost like using the wi-fi logo or the disabled parking logo, but I'm telling you now: apart from the N in 'IMMUNE' (the Nintendo 64 logo), there were no logos shaped like N's.
As for works-in-progress, I also managed to make this with a great deal of fucking around in Paint:
The space between the bottles is all grainy because the original bottle silhouette had that grain in the background, and it was the only picture that matched what I wanted to work with, so I had to simply copy/paste it 3 times. I think GIMP has tools that'll get rid of the grain, so when I work on this some more, hopefully it'll look a lot better :)
I'm pretty pleased with these results given that I have no prior experience with image manipulation programs (closest I've gotten would be video editing programs). Maybe this'll turn out to be another outlet for jokes—who knows?

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