The second video shows how to keep your wood bundled as you chop away, being sure to make it safer and quicker to split your logs.

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This advice for how to better render is a good set of guidelines. I, like others who have read this and posted, do not agree with the last one, though. ”Always cheat” is a bad way of saying reference what is around you. Underlays and references to scale and style are not cheating, so the wording threw me for a loop. But overall, it’s a good article.

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Creating perspective is a great tool in communicating visual ideas. The problem is that not a lot of people are skillful at exercising correct perspective with the wisp of their pen. Introducing Ilovesketch, the 3D sketching program. Now you can turn your paper, do parallel sketching and rotate your work as you create 3D objects from 2D gestures. Watch the video and see for yourself how revolutionary it is!

nebulous building sketches                                 airplane ideations

conceptual automotive sketches        architectural and landscape sketches

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Creative people always find a way to market their creative work. These hand-made greeting cards, by a company in Arizona, are influenced by the work of Joan Miro and Alexander Calder. Using paper, wire, and spools of thread, each one of these cards are hand crafted as unique keepsakes for the recipient. Creativity can offer a wealth of opportunity for those who pursue their passion, and this is a perfect example of that.

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Floor of an elevator made to look like a 1,000-foot drop! I hope no one has passed out in this elevator.

Scale is everything when you are seeing this advertisement from above. From a distance, these people walking over and around this scratching dog look like fleas. 

Everyone dreams about what they would rather be doing; this advertisement shows how extreme that may be for some people.

Clever way to advertise “shark week” on a city bus. I bet it looks way cooler in person!

This vacuum billboard takes a second to get, but it is pretty good.

Nothing says “we sell jumbo muffins” like a car crushing advertisement set-up showing jumbo muffins falling from a billboard.

Awesome billboard idea, but too much white space leaves your logo left unseen.

Driving around the corner and seeing this skyline billboard would set you back. I love how advertisers are creating up exhibit designs to retain the attention of consumers.

Wow, now that is putting trust in the product you are advertising! 3M claims it sandwiched real money into this bus stop advertising campaign.

The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round…

This is a clever way to seek out jobseekers at an ATM. This company has an entire ad campaign with miserable people shown ‘working’ in automated machines, like coffee machines and photo booths, as if they are actually inside.

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With all of the talk about the new iPhone coming out soon, and everyone taking a bite at what may be the next iPhone, concept designs like this are popping up. I hope this is a joke, because having something like this go to market would just be an example of lazy design.

Do you think that you would have been excited to see a phone like this come out in 1996?

I will wait for the real thing, trying to ignore the speculative hype in the meantime, in the hope that Apple reveals a new device that is nothing short of revolutionary. The interface and function of the mobile communication device is not dead. We are not at a stopping point in how we can design and redesign the communication device as we know it. Simply extruding the length of the iPhone will be the demise of Apple as the leader in communication technology design. One day, the Apple iPhone will be the Beta or cassette of yesterday. I just hope that day doesn’t approach prematurely because of a failed design like this concept of the G4.

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What a clever way to celebrate your book collection and interest in geography. The designer has taken a great amount of time in creating a nice wall display for magazines, newspapers, books and digital media. I think there should be one of these in every library. And I also believe there should be one designed for each continent, not just this cluster of the continental United States. Who would have thought that there would be more reading in Texas than in Pennsylvania?

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