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Observed #13: 7 November 2014

In this week's edition, we have craft, coffee, clowns, cities, and a non-alliterative 90s software flashback.

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tags: yasuo ozakaki, colossal, craft, woodturning, dolls, kokeshi, japanese, clowns, france, mime, hell's grannies, interactive, windows 93, zombectro, jankenpopp, rian van der merwe, elezea, coffee, urbanisation, data visualisation, lincoln institute of land policy, atlas of urban expansion, population, johannesburg, htxt
categories: Video, Reading, Big data, Art
Friday 11.07.14
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Observed #10: 15 September 2014

This week we visit outer space: your brain doesn't know how big the moon is, and an astronaut is stuck on Mars. Also, amazing backlit paper cut dioramas, and tools to help you name stuff.

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categories: Video, Tools, Reading, Art, Design
Monday 09.15.14
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Observed #9: 8 September 2014

Kung Fu Fighting, watercolour crystals, data visualisations of ancient texts and a geometric pattern font, right here in this edition.

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tags: Asia, China, kung fu fighting, NPR, riff, song, stereotype, crystals, mineral admiration, karina eibatova, watercolour, birds, playing cards, sefaria, jewish, talmud, tanach, bible, data visualisation, ildikó valicsek, patterns, modular, geometric
categories: Audio, Art, Big data, Design
Monday 09.08.14
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Observed #8: 25 August 2014

My observing this week has been curtailed by multiple deadlines, but I did come across a few noteworthy tidbits, from a graphic identity combining hand lettering with edge painted cards to designer crab homes, as well as my current favourite working soundtracks and two beautiful animated shorts.

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tags: Apartment One, Pulaski, hand lettering, aki Inomata, 3d printing, hermit crabs, Lettering, Andrew bird, Mikey please, Alex Griggs, Rdio, Identity, Hideyuki Hashimoto, Adlin inc, edge painting, logo
categories: Graphic design, Art, Animation, Music, Video
Monday 08.25.14
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Observed #7: 16 August 2014

Slightly delayed after a week of deadline madness, it's this week's edition of Observed. We have handcrafted goodness in the form of paper aviation and vintage-inspired type, as well as a book that took me a year to read (I always read Taleb slowly) and fresh cartoons.

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tags: Powerpuff girls, cindy kinash, Antifragile, flying, Frederator, steampunk, Cartoon hangover, bee, Jules Verne, nassim taleb, spacebear, adventure time, fooled by randomness, True north, Daniel Agdag, manly, bravest warriors, puppycat, chainsaw Richard, paper, charles gibbons, cardboard, the black swan, cartoon, Industrial Age
categories: Art, Video, Typography, Reading
Saturday 08.16.14
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Observed #2: 4 July 2014

In this week's art-and-illustration-heavy edition, caffeine-addicted wildlife, rivers run through coffee tables, brainsploding paintings and more.

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tags: Wired, Sawdust, Lettering, Greg Klassen, River, furniture, Tim Easley, business cards, Cityville, monoline, Rogan Josh, coffee, animals
categories: Typography, Illustration, Product design, Art, Optical illusions
Friday 07.04.14
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