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If you’ve been thru San Francisco, this sign should seem familiar.

Originally planned as a driving promotion for the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition, the 49 Mile Scenic Drive [map] passes thru all the visual highlights and lowlights of The City. Rex May is credited with designing the iconic signs – for more dope on the drive, check out this handy guidebook.

And Annie Galvin of 3 Fish Studios made a big splash last year with her multicolored acrylic paintings, also available as nifty postcards (seen above).

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from the netherlands
Driver on cocaine + police + high speed chase + corn field = art!

Found via The Daily Mail

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From Greece: 2Edged Magazine issue 5 was released this week. 284 pages of graphic design, motion graphics, photography, animation, art and music.

Download your free copy here.

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Dive in: Slovakian artist Roman Ondák’s Measuring the Universe runs thru September 14th, 2009 at Museum of Modern Art in NYC. More details here.

Roman Ondák discusses Measuring the Universe at MoMA

Found via BMD Love Blog

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Part 1

From a half hour show documenting the early development of computer-human graphical interaction.

Part 2

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Sketch-3D drawing tool by o2 Creative Solutions

Found via Core77

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Line art by Steve Masseroni

gurus plant ideas
Steve Masseroni is an incredible artist I knew in high school. He was dabbling with working for Marvel Comics at the time, but set out in his own direction. In a afternoon critique in 1985, he gave me his favorite brush and a few tips on being an illustrator. [Read more →]

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Illustration for my high school yearbook, 1985

Fill out this survey about your senior year of high school!

1. Did you date someone from your school?
No one would date me.

2. Did you marry someone from your high school?
Nope. Married someone whose father went to my high school. Suzanne Somers went to my high school. We all talked about that. Her father was my father’s drinking buddy. She married a guy named Allen. He didn’t go to our school. He was Canadian. [Read more →]

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Utrecht-based illustrator Marlos Duyker knows her way around a sewing machine. She describes her work as ‘an infinite fusion of illustrative design, art and fashion.’ Check out more in her Flickr photostream.

Found via Doodlers Anonymous

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Justin Lovato’s work is a mix of surreal landscapes, feudalism and playful typography (with some great interpretations of Baskerville in several of his pieces). He is the cover story in the July 10th issue of SubMerge and has a show going on right now at the Upper Playground location in Sacramento.

The Art of Justin Lovato
Runs thru September 12th, 2009
at Upper Playground 2524 J Street, Sacramento, CA 95816 [map]

meet the artist
Closing reception is 7 – 11 p.m. on Second Saturday, September 12th, 2009.

For more about Justin, visit his website here.

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Storytelling is universal. Kseniya Simonova’s powerful recounting of Germany’s conquest of the Ukraine during WWII; featured on Ukraine’s Got Talent. More info here.

Found via Twitter.com/LyndsieRoss

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