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Starbucks’ print ad for MLK Jr. Day was pretty damn good.
01.21.2015
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by armin
Is your Facebook feed getting too busy and annoying? Go and Like the White Feed page, whose status updates are always white images. (Make sure to read the comments).
01.21.2015
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by diane zerr
There are no other words (mostly because I’m laughing to the point of tears) for Great Artists’ Mews a fun project by Svetlana Petrova featuring her cat Zarathustra, Photoshopped into fine art images. Welcome to the world of Fat Cat Art.
01.20.2015
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This image is made up of 411 Hubble images, and takes you through 100 million stars and travels over more than 40,000 light years. Just wait until the very end.
01.20.2015
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by armin
Matt Vescovo, aka The Stock Photobomber, Photoshops himself unto stock photos.
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Great (small) piece by Erik Spiekermann on why attention to detail is not just the provenance of typeface designers.
01.20.2015
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by armin
In other 3D-printed news, John Edmark’s “Fibonacci Zoetropes” come to life when photographed with a strobe life and really quick shutter speed. I could look at these all day long.
01.20.2015
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“Fahz”, a small 3D-printed vase with multiple faces shaping its contour. Like that famous optical illusion.
01.20.2015
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So Canada thought it’s not fair that the Norwegians and the Finnish have such cool passports, let’s make ours even funnier by building in a black light Easter egg on each page.
01.20.2015
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