Archive for the ‘Design’ Category
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
Mail Me Art is a fairly simple concept. Create a piece of art that can be mailed then mail it to:
Mail Me Art
37 Thames Court
Victoria Avenue
West Molesey
Surrey
KT8 1TP
United Kingdom
There are some stipulations, but that's basically it. The project's first round is done and a book of several submissions has been ...
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Monday, September 14th, 2009
Ran across FontCapture, a service that will turn your handwriting into a font, usable on both Windows and Mac computers. Just print out a form, fill it out, scan it and upload to the FontCapture site. Magic is worked, then you can download your custom font and install it.
I would ...
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Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
"Old" Diet A & W Root Beer can design
"New" Diet A & W Root Beer can design
I purchase soda for the office so I see several types soda pour down the gullets of thirsty employees. The diet A&W root beer redesign caught my eye. Both are particularly ugly, but ...
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Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
There's not much information about the video above on its website. But it is basically a 3D drawing tool called "Rhonda". Looks pretty mind blowing. Rhonda is currently being developed for "various platforms" and you can enter to become a beta tester.
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Monday, August 10th, 2009
The Creator by Jolby
If you are still searching for creative, one of a kind images to use as wallpaper for your iPhone or iPod touch, head over to Poolga. Not only is everything free, but you'll get wonderfully unique backgrounds that fit the screen perfectly. (I ran into this site ...
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Thursday, August 6th, 2009
Luna by Jennifer Maestre
Jennifer Maestre creates a type of sculpture from colored pencils. Hundreds of pencils are cut into one inch sections and a hole drilled through allowing each to be fastened together. An article about Maestre, including several examples of her work, is up at Dailymail.co.uk.
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Wednesday, August 5th, 2009
There's already 99designs, crowdSPRING and inkd to crowdsource graphic design. Now there is customADart for bringing together photographers and those looking to buy the perfect image for their needs.
The way it basically works is advertisers post a job on the site describing what kind of photo they want. Photographers then ...
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Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
Here's a great set of characters portraits from the HBO show The Wire by Blake Hicks. It's worth checking out if you're a fan of the series. (via Laughing Squid)
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Monday, July 27th, 2009
A while back I was chatting with some folks about how somebody needs to come up with a program that easily allows you to churn out WordPress templates with little to no programing skills. It seems Artisteer now does just this.
Only I can't use it now because it is ...
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Thursday, July 9th, 2009
So Google finally decides to do something with their blogging service Blogger and I first learn of it by logging into Blogger itself and not the tech media. I'm surprised. Looks like it may change for the worse. A screen shot and some commentary after the jump:
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