If you’ve met the Spelling Animals before you will not be surprised to find me occasionally spelling words with slightly inappropriate objects: cats, chickens, octopi and so on. But this may be my most unusual spelling commission to date. Done for my brother as a gift to give to the people from Carbodeon Ltd Oy, a Finnish company specializing in nanomaterials, specifically very, very tiny diamonds.
I shan’t go on about the thermal conductivity and functional groups of these things: I spent a day at Birmingham NEC at a trade fair for Advanced Materials and can talk quite convincingly on the subject now, and I was never less than nerdy to start with. But I don’t need to because the properties of these nanodiamonds are already summed up by the wonderful tagline: “Hard as Hell, But Cooler” (my brother’s words, not mine).
Suffice it to say that the picture needed to combine some finely engineered mechanical things, and electronics. Hence: spelling with pistons.




Wow. You really pulled out the stops on that one! 😀
Very cool and creative… and manly. LOL
Thanks Mgon 🙂 …it was a tricky one to get started on but I got into it after a bit.
So clever! I’ll bet the people at Carbodeon Ltd Oy were bowled over.
Thanks Mrs Daffodil 🙂
Thank You so much Nancy! We got these yesterday and have to say you’ve done Amazing job!!
Have a Merry Christmas and keep up doing amazing art!
Thank you Janne! 🙂
Have a Merry Christmas yourself! x
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