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Art/Design, Books

Noma Bar’s Guess Who?

Jan 31. 2012

I recently came across some minimalist portraits of cultural icons by Israeli illustrator Noma Bar. I was immediately drawn to these pieces for their brilliant use of negative space, elegant subtlety, as well as Bar's use of an object or symbol embedded in the design that helps identify the subject. (I especially love Bill Murray's!) Can you guess them all?   All these illustrations, and many more, can be found in the book Guess Who?: The Many Faces of Noma Bar. Via Brain Pickings....

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Art/Design, Cool Tool Tuesdays, Facebook, Photography, Web

Cool Tool Tuesdays: MCP Free Facebook Fix Photoshop Actions

Jan 31. 2012

Welcome to today's installment of Cool Tool Tuesdays, where I feature a favorite item from my life and spotlight it so that others who are not familiar with the product may also benefit from it. A cool tool can be any book, gadget, software, hardware, material, or website that I have personally tried and love. Do you have any questions about today's cool tool? Would you like an item featured in the future? Please leave a comment to this post, or send me a message via my contact form. Enjoy! If you are a regular Photoshop user, you are probably familiar with Photoshop Actions. If you have no idea what Photoshop Actions are, go read "What Are Photoshop Actions?" over at the MCP Photography...

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Art/Design, Giveaways, Marketing/Advertising

Win a Set of 500 Business Cards from Next Day Flyers! [Giveaway]

Jan 30. 2012

Are you suffering from a case of the Mondays? Well, I've got good news for you, because this week I'm offering an exciting giveaway from Next Day Flyers! Next Day Flyers is an online printing company that delivers top-quality printed marketing materials with one of the fastest turnaround times in the industry. Their printing procedure is environmentally friendly with the use of recycled materials and waste-reducing processes. All print jobs are subjected to a 33 quality checkpoints before being shipped, and their Online Design Center ensures that designing, and ordering print jobs are as easy and painless as possible. Next Day Flyers has operated out of Los Angeles for the past 13 years, but they recently opened a new printing facility in...

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Art/Design, Entertainment

Can You Recognize Them All?

Jan 29. 2012

A good illustrator can capture the essence of a person or a character without having to make the illustration look exactly like the person it is based on. And this is precisely what Anna Rettberg has done in the following illustrated mashup of popular television characters from various shows. Check them out — isn't it amazing how these characters can be immediately recognized with the use of one prop, a certain pose, and/or facial expression? That, or I watch wayyyy too much TV. :-P Can you recognize them all? I will post the answers as the first comment to this post!...

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