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The "Forget Me Nots" Project: Remembering Razed Architecture

By Claire Lawton Wed., Dec. 28 2011 at 7:00 AM
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Armed with a ladder, a few buckets of paint, and armfuls of data from the city archives, a group called Merge Invisible took to its neighborhood in Budapest and paid tribute to its old architecture. 

Much of Budapest's traditional architecture was destroyed during a long history of occupation -- including houses, libraries, and schools -- and was replaced with what the group calls "new ugly buildings made of cheap and bad materials." 

This month, they started the Nefelejcs (Hungarian for Forget-Me-Nots) Project, in which large-scale reproductions of the buildings' blueprints/X-rays are painted on the buildings that stand in their places. 


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Ornamental Explosions​ by Alan Sailer

By Claire Lawton Tue., Dec. 27 2011 at 7:00 AM
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​Alan Sailer's been called a grinch. The California-based photographer recently took a few of his leftover ornaments, his camera, and his high-speed pellet rifle to his garage for an experiment. 

The result is The War Against Christmas, a series of high-speed photos of his exploding ornaments he says are a "a satiric take on the semi-famous Bill O'Reilly diatribe about his imaginary "secular progressive agenda" against Christmas."

Need any more reasons to take down the tree? 

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See it on a Skateboard

By Claire Lawton Mon., Dec. 26 2011 at 7:00 AM
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One new idea for every day in 2011. We're talking big, small, local, international, in action, and on the drawing board. Here's today's -- what's yours?
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​Brett Novak and Kilian Martin met during a freestyle skate competition and have jumped at the chance to be around each other ever since. 

The two skateboarders see their sport as an art form, and, armed with a camera and a board, Novak and Martin set out to capture their adventures. The result is A Skate Illustration. 

"I get a very awe-inspiring type feeling from skateboarding: it's my life," Novak writes. "It's funny, because it's a piece of wood with sandpaper and wheels, but I can have a terrible, terrible day and go out and skate and feel calm. It's not a sport, it's a lifestyle and I feel like I want to translate what it brings for me." 

Check out the video after the jump ...

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A Wonderful World

By Claire Lawton Sat., Dec. 24 2011 at 12:31 PM
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​Just a quick cheers between eggnog drinking, present opening, candle lighting, caroling, greivance airing, festivusing, and (hopefully relaxing). 

Here's to a wonderful world, narrated by David Attenborough.


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Resolve to Design 2012

By Claire Lawton Thu., Dec. 22 2011 at 7:00 AM
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​One new idea for every day in 2011. We're talking big, small, local, international, in action, and on the drawing board. Here's today's -- what's yours? 

​Motherland Design is the blogging bin New York-based designer Chris Streger uses to store inspirational design he finds, well, everywhere. 

While counting down to the new year, he's asking designers to create their own New Year's resolutions as prints, and desktop, iPad, and iPhone wallpapers for daily (and stylish) inspirational use. 

The latest is by Brooklyn-based designer Lydia Nichols who is resolving to "write more letters."

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Absurd, Overheard, and Illustrated

By Claire Lawton Wed., Dec. 21 2011 at 7:00 AM
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One new idea for every day in 2011. We're talking big, small, local, international, in action, and on the drawing board. Here's today's -- what's yours?
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​"God, bless my family, and please find the atheist squirrels that ate my Christmas lights and fry them with your awesome laser eyes. Amen." 

Karen Kurycki has her ears open and her pen ready. Between design gigs and her day job, the Florida-based illustrator collects statements she and her followers overhear (much like the prayer above) and adds a little color. 

"There are a lot of crazy things people say around me that I feel should be documented in one place," she writes. "These statements may not always make sense, but they'll usually make you laugh."


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An Overheard Script for New York

By Claire Lawton Tue., Dec. 20 2011 at 7:00 AM
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One new idea for every day in 2011. We're talking big, small, local, international, in action, and on the drawing board. Here's today's -- what's yours?
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​Last week, the Art Directors Club gallery in New York opened the doors to a sold out poster show called New York Types. 

The letterpress posters (on view until January 5) were created with words and phrases heard on the city streets; they were the latest installment of New York Writes Itself, an ongoing series of creative productions "fueled by the real people of New York." The series of stories, songs, art exhibitions, and a television pilot (coming soon), are all recorded by community "scribes" who submit what they've overheard to the project's online script.

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Wear it in Colored Pencils

By Claire Lawton Mon., Dec. 19 2011 at 7:00 AM
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One new idea for every day in 2011. We're talking big, small, local, international, in action, and on the drawing board. Here's today's -- what's yours?
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​... Sorry, there's drool all over this keyboard. 

If you're looking for a last-minute gift idea or a great excuse to use those extra colored pencils for the next holiday party, take a few notes from Gabrielle Blair. 

The designer, currently living in France, runs a blog where she says her design projects and motherhood intersect. Her latest project includes a few new uses for a few extra colored pencils. 

Check out her how-to guide after the jump ... 

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The Type Heritage Project

By Claire Lawton Fri., Dec. 16 2011 at 7:00 AM
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One new idea for every day in 2011. We're talking big, small, local, international, in action, and on the drawing board. Here's today's -- what's yours?
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If you geek out on typefaces and all-things-letterpress, you might want to set up an alert for when the Type Heritage Project gets going. 

The project, currently in research phase with textbook and online resource guides in the works, discovers and documents typefaces and digital display fonts designed between 1800 and World War I. 



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A Hero, in 3.2 Million Dots

By Claire Lawton Thu., Dec. 15 2011 at 7:00 AM
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​Miguel Endara admits that the 3.2 million dots used to create an image of his father's face is an estimate -- but it's pretty close. 

For a year (he estimates about 210 hours of work time, at 4.25 dots per second), Endara stippled with his Sakura Pigma Micron pen on a plain piece of paper. The result is "Hero", which is one of Endara's few pieces of artwork -- mostly, he says, because stippling takes so long. 

See a time lapse of his work after the jump ...


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