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design

It’s a Big Dam Country – Day 23

5 June 2009

From Minot, ND to Glasgow, MT. Cool, overcast. It didn’t actually rain but it was very threatening.
Hwy 2 is often an interesting road in that it varies between two-lane and newly divided four-lane. This occasionally leads to confusing lane striping on the portion that used to be two-lane.
I stopped at the Wal-Mart in Williston. [...]

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WIP – Pierced Copper Ring

21 April 2009

Progress has been made on the ring.
A flat piece of copper was hammered and then cut into a circle.
That circle was dapped into a dome shape.
The the tree bit was soldered onto the domed bit, making a hollow ornament
A chunk of 12 gauge half round sterling wire was made into a ring band.
The top was [...]

Tagged as: piercing, ring, soldering

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WIP – Pierced Copper for JM1 Class.

24 March 2009

I’m taking Jewelry and Metalsmithing 1 at the Pratt Fine Arts Center.
Our first project is a ring. The top is made of a piece of pierced copper soldered to a half dome. Below are pictures of the two tops that I made last week. The pattern is gluesd on with rubber cement and then holes [...]

Tagged as: copper, piercing, ring

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What Happens When…

2 March 2009

… someone with the Farckle Gene doesn’t own motorcycles.
Just goes to show you.

Tagged as: bird house, color, yard art

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w.t.f

5 January 2009

so the other day as i was looking through some of the thousands of folders of photos we have i found this one.
other than the catchy rhyme it’s a lousy sign.
i just want to know who they (the people who designed the sign) think is going to understand that this is where you should go [...]

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Clever Packaging

15 September 2008

On my way back to my interrupted vacation in Oaxaca I had the chance to upgrade my DFW to MEX flight to business class. I *love* business class. The only thing better than the leg room is the refuge from the “cheap as we can make it” ethos of coach. Including this lovely little bit [...]

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Garden Report

23 May 2008

We’re building a lot of stone walls this year. When we first had the lawns and beds installed we didn’t have the time and money to build the bed walls that we wanted so we used the black plastic edging to keep the grass out of the beds (sort of) This year we’re replacing the [...]

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Trivia I Need

23 April 2008

ColourLovers posted a list of all 120 Crayola crayon colors and their (approximate) hex and RGB codes. The list was complied by Aaron at ColorSchemer.com.

I am now going to waste several hours creating a custom Photoshop palette of these colors.
Sigh.
BTW When did the Crayola site change so much? I remember it as being a much [...]

Tagged as: color, crayons

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Birdfeeder Design and a Good Use of Website Animation

17 April 2008

I’m a fan of birdfeeders and clever product design. The Architect’s Birdfeeder, designed by Doug Patt Pratt, is good looking and an intriguing engineering solution.

The key feature – it ships like flat-pack furniture but better because it goes together without that nasty cheap little hex wrench thing.
The animation of the assembly of the birdfeeder on [...]

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Graphic Design pRon for my gearhead friends

12 March 2008

Thusly:

Linkage
including a very early Michelin man
alas no motos on this one, though the site pretty wells rocks.
via: amy crehore
edited 25.june.2008 to correct image links

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