Twitter Background Templates for Illustator & Photoshop

Twitter is all the rage, but how can you make a great looking twitter page? Twitter gives the user limited, yet flexible design options. As social networking sites go, this gives you the ability to create a unique look...

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A few secrets from the Deke Lounge, you ‘betcha!

When you visit the Deke Lounge to experience some liquid learning make sure you take off your shoes. The incomparable Deke McClelland and Colleen Wheeler do another bang up job in the Lounge this week. Joining them again are...

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A Modern Totem

I saw this striking image from boing boing of what I consider a modern totem or tiki statue. A group of Dutch artists carved a tree trunk into the shape of a full-sized stand-up arcade video game. It's an interesting...

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JJ Abrams at TED

I am a TED Head. I love the lectures at the TED Conference. What began as a small conference in California has grown to a global community, many million strong, focused on exchanging and spreading ideas. If you have...

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18 Great Film Studio Logo Openings

Going to the cinema has always been magical for me. Perhaps the Theatre is truly the abode of the divine Dionysus. As a child, my family would take my sisters, assorted friends and myself to this magical celluloid realm....

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More Faux-Nostalgia

It is very fitting that I saw an article on Boing Boing about a new issue of Steampunk Magazine being released after my last post on the work of Bruce McCall. Nothing says Faux-Nostalgia like Steam Punk; that is...

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Nostalgia for a Future that Never Happened: The Work of Bruce McCall

Bruce McCall says in this hilarious and very interesting TED presentation that Nostalgia is the most utterly useless human emotion. I don't totally agree but I see the point. Nostalgia if taken to extreme becomes a mild case of...

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Free Survivor Tribe Swatches for Adobe Illustrator

I am very excited that a new season of the greatest show in the history of Television has returned. No, not Heroes or Lost, it's Survivor of course! In  honor of the sacrifice of my Thursday Nights and countless hours...

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