The Marginalian
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Reads tagged with “illustration”

Art Pickings: Behold Our Brand New Art Portal
Art Pickings: Behold Our Brand New Art Portal

A big announcement and a small way to have more art in your life.

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CitID: A (Type)face for Every City in the World
CitID: A (Type)face for Every City in the World

Typefacing Tegucicalpa, or what hometown homages have to do with postmodernism.

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Urban Hackscapes: Augmented Reality 1.0
Urban Hackscapes: Augmented Reality 1.0

iPhone vs. pencil, or what the Library of Congress has to do with cartoon dinosaurs.

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Design Makeovers of Mundane Communication Items
Design Makeovers of Mundane Communication Items

Strangers on a train, pixelated postings, and why ham tastes better in Helvetica.

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Duelity: Earth’s Story, Split Down the Middle
Duelity: Earth’s Story, Split Down the Middle

Darwin vs. the General Organization of Development labs, or why truth comes in pairs.

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5 Seminal Vintage Russian Animation Short Films
5 Seminal Vintage Russian Animation Short Films

What dancing ballerinas and hungry kings have to do with the dawn of the digital age.

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Spam as Art
Spam as Art

Flowers from junk, postmodern poetry, and a beautiful way to invite Nigerian scammers into your living room.

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The Invention of Hugo Cabret
The Invention of Hugo Cabret

What 1930 in Paris has to do with Avatar, orphans and broken machines.

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Beyond Burton: Art Inspired by Alice In Wonderland
Beyond Burton: Art Inspired by Alice In Wonderland

Floating children, the rabbit hole of the social web, and what Dali has to do with manga.

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CreativeAllies: Artist, Meet Artist
CreativeAllies: Artist, Meet Artist

Artist meets artist, or why street cred beats petty pay every time.

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