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The Insanely Great History of Apple Explains it All for You

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Are you a serious Apple fanboy or fangirl? Here’s a poster that you’re probably going to want to hang on your wall. Entitled The Insanely Great History of Apple, it chronicles the past 30 years of technology released by Apple.

This 18″x24″ wall poster includes some of the best and…

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December 9th, 2011 by: Technabob

iPlate Adds a Layer of Photoshop to Your Dinner

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…which is why these should have been called Photoplate instead. Whatever their name, Todd Burka’s designs will make Photoshop fans think of the possibilities of edible editing. What if you could enlarge or multiply your food with just a few clicks? Or make your kid’s dinner look awesome so they’ll…

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November 4th, 2011 by: Lambert Varias

Vintage Superhero Posters: Paper Fights Back

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French illustrator GrĂ©goire Guillemin created these retro posters as part of his series Exercises in Style, which remind me of the golden age of superheroes. Each poster is unique and the typography matches the overall tone of the art.…

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October 31st, 2011 by: Range

Bare Essentials: Characters Get Minimal, Still Recognizable

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Bare Essentials… is a book by Dennis de Groot featuring images which reduce popular video game, comic book, and other characters to their most basic representation, using simple geometric shapes. Just like those pixel characters by Ty Lettau, they reduce characters to their most basic essentials.

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September 13th, 2011 by: Range

Super Angular Mario

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I’ve seen lots of different renditions of Mario over the years, but I can definitely say I’ve never seen him looking quite this extreme.
Illustrator Nicola Felaco created this cool blocky version of Mario using a variety of diamonds, trapezoids, and triangles.…

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August 12th, 2011 by: Technabob

Minimal Video Game Characters: Can You Guess Them All?

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This clever illustration by Fabian Gonzalez is chockful of famous video game characters – all boiled down to their most minimal essence.

All have to say is that I stared at this image for about 20 minutes, and was only able to figure out about 40 of them, but I’m…

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March 5th, 2011 by: Technabob

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Minimal Mario and Simplistic Street Fighter

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You’ve gotta love these ultra-minimal graphics of Bowser (with his back to us), Luigi, Mario and Princess Peach by Nick Luckett.

The Street Fighter… ones by infinitecontinues which inspired Nick to create his ain’t half bad either. See if you can name them all…

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August 8th, 2010 by: Technabob

Console Font 1-Ups Arial

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I’m really not a fan of fancy display typefaces. Maybe it’s my early eye-scarring experience with the San Francisco font on my original Macintosh 128, but I really prefer fonts that are readable over cool looking. That said, I’ll make an exception here.

ConsoleFont was designed by artist Varun Vachhar,…

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June 4th, 2010 by: Technabob

Inklet Turns Macbook Trackpad Into Pen Tablet

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Ten One Design’s app could be a godsend to artists who can’t afford a full-fledged tablet. It can be used with any pen-like object, but when combined with the company’s Pogo Sketch pen, Inklet adds touch-sensitivity to your unibody MacBook/MacBook Pro’s trackpad.

Inklet also has handwriting recognition and supports a…

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May 17th, 2010 by: Lambert Varias

Video Game Propaganda Posters: Do Your Part and Hang Them on Your Wall

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Steve Thomas‘ video game propaganda posters are a great addition to any game room or office. The latest in his series are the retro-cool Pac-Man, Dragons Lair and Space Invaders prints, but if you dig into the series, you’ll find everyone from Dig Dug to Donkey Kong to Tron…

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May 11th, 2010 by: Technabob

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