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Category Archives: Graphics

The Best Photoshop Tip I’ve Ever Forgotten

12-May-08

There are so many handy tips about obscure Photoshop techniques floating around, that sooner or later, some of the more arcane ones just float off, beyond the reach of memory. Well; my memory, anyway.
The research I do entails a lot of scanning, and of all sorts of materials. Typescripts, books and magazines, and [...]

Positive Space Creates A Negative Outcome

25-Apr-08

One of the most popular posts (so far) on this blog is a piece I wroted and quoted about the Fedex Logo and its designer, Lindon Leader, way back in early September 2006.
Looking at my blog’s stats, I notice that over 16,000 people have stopped by to have a look at that one article [...]

Speculative Cigar Box Samples

29-Jan-08

Here is a selection of beautiful samples of the chromolithographic printer’s art, applied to cigar boxes.
They seem to be speculative samples that were sent out to North American cigar packers around 1880 -1910, judging by the costumes.
While it’s fortunate that whoever runs the Brasilian website containing these images has gone to the trouble of collecting [...]

ColourCountry

29-Oct-07

This is one of the oddest websites I have seen in a while. I cannot remember what I was researching when I found it. All I know is that I was held entranced in its soft and quirky grip for a time that seemed to last for ages, but in reality was probably [...]

This Is The End, My Friend. The End….

12-Sep-07

One of the mantras in screenwriting is that you have to know the end before you can write the beginning. Or the middle.

(If you click this thumbnail, it will get slightly bigger, but not much!)
This set on Flickr concentrates on the very, very end of the film. In truth, it’s the bit that really [...]

One for Luc Desmarchelier

05-Jul-07

(Cliquez l’image minuscule pour l’agrandir)
There’s a less scabrous version here, albeit with terrible pincushion distortion.
Rummaging around on the Onslow auction site for some posters by Eric Kennington, I came across this little gem by a French poster artist that I’d never heard of before; Jean d’Ylen. Socks were blown off. Have a look [...]

How to Paint the Mona Lisa in Microsoft PAINT

05-Apr-07

You have to stand back in amazement, really, and ask yourself why on earth would anybody use the world’s crappiest imaging app to try and recreate the world’s most famous painting?
Because it’s fun, I suppose!

What’s Wrong With This Picture?

29-Mar-07

(Click to enlarge)-(and no stupid puns intended.)
I found this arresting image on the amazing Dutch Circus Museum website a while ago. It dates from the 1920’s, I think.
(CAUTION! When you follow that link you will immediately be subjected to irritating and loud announcements in Dutch. There’s a button at top right that turns [...]

What’s The Worst Job You Ever Had?

24-Mar-07

I’m sure you must have had a job (or even two) in your career that was just so unremittingly tedious, and / or badly paid that it now demarcates and defines the outer edge of your professional experience.
When I saw this photoset on Flickr the other day, my first reaction was to shudder at the [...]

Some Bamboo Drawings, 20 Years On

16-Nov-06

Arundinaria tessellata Artwork
It occurred to me recently that it is now 20 years since I founded the Bamboo Network, that evolved into The Bamboo Society which is still going strong.
At about the same time, I also started a specialist nursery called Jungle Giants.
Part of the marketing emphasis of Jungle Giants was the level of well [...]

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