Twitter Logo MAD Fold-In
I've been watching Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter, and I've even been personally affected by it (negatively), so I wanted a way to vent using open-source software and some very basic art skills. I woke up yesterday with an idea in mind for a MAD Fold-In[1]. A MAD Fold-In is a piece of artwork on the inside-back cover of each issue of "MAD Magazine". The main image can be folded to reveal a hidden, secondary image. I wanted to share my interactive picture with others, but printing a fold-in and mailing it to friends with instructions seemed really hard, so I searched for a digital way to do…
In plain words
Twitter Logo MAD Fold-In is an interactive web tool that recreates the classic MAD Magazine fold-in format digitally. Users can fold a digital image to reveal hidden artwork underneath, made using open-source tools like Inkscape and CSS. The creator built it as a commentary on Elon Musk's Twitter takeover, allowing people to share folding artwork online rather than printing and mailing physical copies. It is designed for anyone interested in interactive art or nostalgic magazine-style content.
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In the maker’s words, at launch
I've been watching Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter, and I've even been personally affected by it (negatively), so I wanted a way to vent using open-source software and some very basic art skills. I woke up yesterday with an idea in mind for a MAD Fold-In[1]. A MAD Fold-In is a piece of artwork on the inside-back cover of each issue of "MAD Magazine". The main image can be folded to reveal a hidden, secondary image. I wanted to share my interactive picture with others, but printing a fold-in and mailing it to friends with instructions seemed really hard, so I searched for a digital way to do it. I found a blog post[2] from Thomas Park where he already did 100% of the work necessary to make a MAD Fold-In using nothing but CSS and HTML and a normal PNG image. Using Inkscape and some Creative Commons images, I drafted a rough piece of artwork and tweaked it until the CSS folded it nicely. I wouldn't normally share here, but I think other HN readers may get some utility from seeing and trying out a purely CSS implementation of a MAD Fold-In, even if I didn't write the CSS myself. I'm hoping to start a trend where others make their own fold-ins. Moreover, Elon Musk picked today of all days to rebrand the Twitter logo as a unicode "X" character (𝕏). So, the Twitter bird really _did_ die today, as happened in my MAD fold-in, making my post somewhat topical and weirdly apropos. If this post is too off-topic, please feel free to take it down. If it stays up, please let me know what you think. In the event my server goes down, I made a WayBack Machine archive of the site [3]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Fold-in [2] https://thomaspark.co/2020/06/the-mad-magazine-fold-in-effec... [3] https://web.archive.org/web/20230724221700/https://brendenhy...
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