Artist Dave Cole created this piece of flag art in 2005 using 18,000 plastic toy soldiers.
This flag is made up of 1,250 images portraying the events of 9/11. (Artist unknown).
This Experimental mosaic portrait of Senator Barack Obama by Charis Tsevis is made out of American State flags.
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Posted by Amelia Woodbridge on July 3rd, 2008 — in Design, Just for Fun
The proliferation of blogs and their style is really influencing website design to be a little more fluid and freeform. Spend some time browsing around and you’ll see what’s popular now: pencil sketches, handwritten fonts, designs that utilize the “white space” or have no border, graphics such as paper clips, sticky notes and embellishments (sort [...]
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Posted by Amelia Woodbridge on June 14th, 2008 — in Amelia's Hall of Fame, Design, Web Sites
Came across a website today that is quite a resource for anyone working in or using color - Colourlovers. The members of the community have posted new colors, color palettes and patterns. You can search trends, top picks, and even color in different industries such as the movies, fashion or say…skateboarding! As someone that [...]
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Posted by Amelia Woodbridge on June 14th, 2008 — in Color, Design
So here’s the logo designed for the summer games this year. It’s entitled “Dancing Beijing” and features a stylized calligraphic character meaning Capital, referencing the host city. It seems to do a few things as a logo - it resembles a running man but it does maintain the feel of calligraphy and uses the traditional [...]
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Posted by Amelia Woodbridge on April 28th, 2008 — in Design
While doing some wine research, I happened across this wine with spectacular packaging and a truly unique name — Blasted Church. I found myself reading the story about their rather unusual name and smiling at the fun names of the wine: names like ‘the damn flood,’ and ‘Amen port-de-merlot.’ Not only does their [...]
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Posted by Amelia Woodbridge on April 16th, 2008 — in Design, Packaging
