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fold your own damn font

Tweet Tobias Sommer (shasta) creates the “punched out” typeface, one you can download, print, cut and fold into a nifty real life pixel style typeface that is so 3D, it is real. (Photo © Tobias Sommer)

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sculptural photography, szymon roginski

Tweet Collaborative work from polish photographer Szymon Roginski and Kasia Korzeniecki featuring photographic sculptures. It’s like real-life texturing.

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id sketching blog, idsketching.com

Tweet What a fantastic find IDsketch.com is, a simple blog about ID sketching, ID of course meaning industrial design. IDsketch, run by ted Spencer Nugent where you can find plenty of amazing drawings and sketches, and seriously great videos on techniques and tips by spencer himself. Check out rendering surface finishes with markers!

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the lost art of the vhs box

Tweet HolyCow! It was just the other day I was searching for 80′s arcade graphics and software packaging, and then i came across this bit of goodness… and oh my goodness! All the archetypical illustration techniques from the 80′s and campy films come together in the book Portable Grindhouse: The Lost Art of the VHS Box, [...]

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nodebox, a procedural way to create graphics

Tweet NodeBox is a new, free and open source software application for creating generative art using procedural graphics. Graphics are created by connecting a series of nodes together, each node is responsible for a specific task and all the nodes together work together to create the output graphics – very similar to the way a [...]

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type: a visual history of typefaces & graphic styles

Tweet [amazon-product image="51kWXyZijcL._SL160_.jpg" type="image"]3836511010[/amazon-product]What an amazing book. type: a visual history of typefaces & graphic styles presents a visual history of fonts and graphic styles. This book offers a novel overview of typeface design, exploring the most beautiful and remarkable examples of font catalogs from the history of publishing, with a special emphasis on the [...]

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artrage 3 studio coming soon

Tweet ArtRage 3 studio adds tons of new tool and feature some of which including  a Watercolor brush, an auto smoothing Inking Pen for fine line work, Flood Fill, a Selection tool, a Text Tool that allows live editing of text on layers, the special effect Gloop Pen, and more. I have always been impressed [...]

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theodoru illustration

Tweet Some really great illustration work over at theodoru illustration, a nice mix of vector and 3D work.

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Inkscape 0.47 Release

Tweet Inkscape, an open source vector graphics program has been updated to v0.47. The update brings improved performance and tons of new features, and… its open source and… its free.

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andrew zuckerman | bird

Tweet Photographer andrew zuckerman’s amazingly beautiful book “Bird”. Fantastic looking and also an amazing book to keep around for visual reference.  BIRD Available from Amazon

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