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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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Giveaway: L’album des trésors de bébé [Gorgeous French Baby Book]

Jan 09. 2012

Update:  This giveaway has ended. Congratulations to Elisa T, who entered via Twitter! If you are anything like me, you would probably agree that most baby books out on the market are crap. They are usually pretty cheesy and most do not have anything extra special about them. This is the primary reason I was thinking about forgoing the baby book route when I was pregnant with Claire. (That, and the fact that I'm a complete idiot when it comes to scrapbooking.) And then I read about L'album des trésors de bébé on my friend Kelly's blog...

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Fairy Tales Get the Architect Treatment

Jan 07. 2012

How would fairy tales look from the lens of architecture? This is precisely what Fairy tale author and editor Kate Bernheimer and architect Andrew Bernheimer sought to find out. Rapunzel, designed by Guy Norden and Associates: As structural engineers we were instantly drawn to the "tower that stood in a forest and had neither a door nor a stairway, but only a tiny little window at the very top" featured in the Brothers Grimm version of "Rapunzel," and we looked to our previous design for the Seven Stems Broadcast Tower for inspiration. We were able to meet the Grimms' strict design requirements by employing a slender tower design of vertical cylindrical stems that are joined by intermittent outrigger beams...

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Fashion Designers Imagine Katniss’s Fire Dress [Hunger Games Pr0n]

Dec 12. 2011

InStyle magazine has recently asked some of its favorite designers to sketch their visions of Katniss Everdeen's fire dress from the first book of The Hunger Games trilogy. If you can recall, the dress represents Katniss's transition from an outdoorsy tomboy to a powerful, kickass woman, and her appearance in the firy gown is when the people of Panem begin to take notice of this underdog. And just in case you don't quite remember what the dress is supposed to look like:

I am dressed in what will either be the most sensational or the deadliest costume in the opening ceremonies. I’m in a simple black unitard that covers me from ankle to neck. Shiny leather boots lace up to my...

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