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Inkscape is one of my favourite appli­ca­tions on free soft­ware desktop, I use it pretty much daily. I’ve gotten to the point where it sits right beside the Firefox and Evo­lu­tion icons in my GNOME panel because I get sick of going through the menus. One of the things I have recently been using Inkscape a lot for is con­cep­tu­al­i­sa­tions. I’ve had a few chats with some art-​loving friends about this recently and all seem to agree that Inkscape is just a lovely tool to work with, espe­cially for concept work.

Inkscape is awesome for this sort of work for many reasons. I think a lot has to do with the sim­plic­ity of the design of the inter­face right through to the ease of use when it comes to cre­at­ing and manip­u­lat­ing objects, paths and such. When it comes to web con­cep­tu­al­i­sa­tion work to give to the devel­op­ers an idea what the site for their free soft­ware project might look like Inkscape is lovely also because of the awesome work of the Tango Desktop Project. Now icons are in SVG which allows us art people to add even more rockin’ flavour to the work. Rock on!

I figured I ought to give some sort of example after working on another concept design for the last few hours: