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The Making of a Book Cover

By tone | Published: March 12, 2010
What took six hours to make is a fully sped up segment of how a book is made in a montage sequence of layering with clip art. The soon to be released Blameless by Gail Carriger is the third in the series The Parasol Protectorate. The Parasol Protectorate Series books are comedies of manners set in [...]
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Augmented (hyper)Reality: The Future of Mankind

By tone | Published: March 11, 2010
Will mankind and machine merge together? Are we at the threshold of mankind’s greatest leap into cerebral commercialism and slave to big industry? The future looks promising but Matrix like haunting and freedom-less of human contact. Hyper-reality is a thing of sci-fi but not an impossibility. The latter half of the 20th century saw the [...]
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Cecilia Cassini: America’s Youngest Fashion Designer

By tone | Published: March 10, 2010
There are many cases where young computer whizzes are striking early with enterprising ideas. Cecilia Cassini is by far “America’s youngest fashion designer.” Most of us are not smarter than a fifth grader, yet alone can’t put a thread through the eye of a needle. Cecilia Cassini’s fashion line is sold in some fashion [...]
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New Alice in Wonderland Art by Hugh Dandrade

By tone | Published: March 9, 2010
Hugh D’Andrade’s marriage of typography and illustration is a thing of beauty. His art graces many books and rock posters and really does justice to the project at hand. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Other Stories is the latest book cover he was commissioned for the Lewis Carroll classic.
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Logorama

By tone | Published: February 28, 2010
Logorama is nominated for best short animation for the 2010 Oscars. Logorama examines our daily bombardment of visual ads in our commutes as main characters. Our collective lives are entwined with product placement and association of these universal products and the personification of the corporate identity we perceive of them. The logo has become [...]
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Thinking Ouside the Box

By tone | Published: January 31, 2010
Daring to think different with the advertising agency: Rethink from Canada. The video selected the best video of the week as bestowed by BestAds.com The call-for-entries video for the 2010 scholarship was shot on a shoestring budget and uses classic design techniques to illustrate tried-and-true creative tips. The video aims to inspire students and help them [...]
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Hellboy Video Slot

By tone | Published: January 29, 2010
Name recognition is the name of the game, what might be the worst licensing idea ever for a comic character is sure to catch your attention. Either it’s a hell of an idea or the creators of this will go to hell. Gambling is always finding new ways to attract new customers and why not [...]
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World’s Tallest Skyscrapers on Hold

By tone | Published: January 22, 2010
The tallest buildings of the future are mostly either delayed or canceled due to lack of money. Nimrod will have to wait before he can bend his bow and challenge the creator at 3,000 feet plus. Kuwait is now “can you wait” till we get more money to complete our skyscraper. Are these buildings [...]
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Calvin and Hobbes Licked in 2010

By tone | Published: January 9, 2010
Calvin and Hobbes finally get licked in 2010 with a series of comic strip stamps that pay tribute also to Archie, Dennis the Menace, Garfield ,and Beetle Bailey.  The street date is July in the United States, the stamps will be a very popular set with collectors.  Stamp of Approval>>
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The Cargoshell, the Future of Transportation

By tone | Published: January 9, 2010
The Cargoshell is an ingenious new way to transport products and is easily collapsible for future storage. You will no longer need empty towering shipping containers stacked like Legos in shipyards. The shipping containers has not changed in 50 years. The newly proposed Cargoshell will save millions and space at the same time.
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