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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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Apple, Art/Design, Cool Tool Tuesdays, Gadgets, Geek, Personal, Reviews

Cool Tool Tuesdays: What I Use to Clean and Protect My MacBook Pro

Jan 24. 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! Some people like to rough up their gadgets, add personalizations, and give it some character. I am not one of those people. In fact, I am the complete opposite: I like to keep...

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Art/Design, Asian, Cute, Home

Lunar New Year Paper Crafts by Canon

Jan 20. 2012

This weekend, as he does every year, J will be decorating our home for Lunar New Year with various Chinese paper cutouts and prints which are meant to ward off bad spirits and bring good fortune to the household in the new year. For those who may be unfamiliar with Chinese culture, the Lunar New Year is a BIG deal in China. Workers usually take an entire month off so that they can travel to be with their families, and the weeks-long celebrations are loud, exuberant, and can be pretty intense. Since J's birthday falls in the same week as the Lunar New Year Day this year, he will be taking the entire week off next week to properly celebrate both....

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Art/Design, Books, Fonts, Geek

Word as Image

Jan 17. 2012

I am loving the Word as Image project and the accompanying book. Started 20 years ago as an assignment in typography class in art school, Ji Lee creates images out of words by contorting the letters that form the word itself.

Anyone can create a word as image. It doesn't require any design or drawing skills. All you need is a little creative thinking and to see words and letters in a different way. The dictionary is filled with thousands of fun visual puzzles just waiting to be solved.
Now that I think about it, I can recall that I learned the word "parallel" — which happens to be one of the words pictured below — by remembering the...

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