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Buy cool t-shirts from an online community of graphic designers, via Threadless
Threadless is an online community of artists and an e-commerce website based in Chicago, Illinois. In 2000, co-founders Jake Nickell and Jacob DeHart started the company with $1,000 of their own money. Designs are created by and chosen by an online community. Each week, about 1,000 designs are submitted online and are put to a public vote. …
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On the grounds of the Villa Medici in Rome with gods, gardens, and great art (photos)
I don’t know what to say about this…I was visiting the website of the French Academy in Rome and then accidentally closed the window. When I re-opened it a new beautiful picture was staring at me. I kept refreshing the page and found 8 more beautiful pictures. The building is called the Villa Medici located …
An experiment in Monumenta – art at the Grand Palais in Paris, France
Here is an amazing piece of art from the website designboom. Each year the French Ministry of Culture and Communication invites a leading artist to create a work that responds to the exceptional architectural space of the Grand Palais in Paris. The sheer monumental scale of the building provided the inspiration for a big idea: monumenta. …
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Art and icons of Foursquare…can you decipher the meaning?
These icons are from the lead designer at Foursquare. The gray ones are meant to identify locations and the color ones are badges meant to reward you for something. Can you identify the location and/or reward for each one?
Fun with Flickr photos – panorama shots split into three – Triple Art
How are these triples made? – pick a photo with a motif which fits for a panorama view – select a cutout of 1500 x 500 pixels and save this photo (Photoshop or so) – cut this wide photo in 3 equal parts of 500 x 500 pixels – now you have 3 triple photos …
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Pacific Standard Time’s last hurrah for the exhibit – Lost and Found
I will be sad to see the Pacific Standard Time exhibitions go. For the past few months 60+ institutions all over California have been showing off the best native works from 1945-1980. The pieces below are from the Robert Berman Gallery in Santa Monica’s Bergamot Station, on display until the end of this year, December …
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Pacific Standard Time's last hurrah for the exhibit – Lost and Found
I will be sad to see the Pacific Standard Time exhibitions go. For the past few months 60+ institutions all over California have been showing off the best native works from 1945-1980. The pieces below are from the Robert Berman Gallery in Santa Monica’s Bergamot Station, on display until the end of this year, December …
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Winter watercolor – a beautiful illustration of a pretty girl
Pen, ink, watercolor. Winter inspired ink drawing for the cold days that have dominated our December. This drawing is based on one of my student assistants. It is a relatively quick portrait sketch. The fun part is working with a model that has large expressive-eyes. The addition of a “fur” neck-warmer seemed to balance out …
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Art, icons, and posters of Occupy Wall Street
This project and this movement is about mobilizing the masses and nothing is more important than numbers when it comes to a protest’s strength and longevity. That is why we are providing everyone with free downloadable posters, graciously provided by graphic designers around the country, to not only promote this site and efforts down on …
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