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Designer Florent Guerlain’s Swiss take on the Monopoly game board.

Found via Doobybrain

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Sutro Tower shirt, San Francisco.

Found via Thomas Hawk

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Things in Sacramento are named Tower.

After the bridge, after the theatre (both below). Tower Records (as a walk in store) started  . . .  and finished here. I’m convinced the local auto museum, the Towe was actually supposed to be the Tower but they forgot to add the r.

Pictured: Sacramento Cityscapes by Paul Guyer. More here.

(Shakey’s Pizza started here too)

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Nicola López, woodcut and silkscreen on paper

Ten visions of towers, over at PRINTERESTING.

Vladimir Tatlin, letterpress book cover

Michael Dal Cerro, woodcut

Anne-Maree Hunter, book arts, intaglio, silkscreen

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Some great aerial photos here.

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Here’s an incredible collection of wall decals.

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‘a basic IKEA kitchen island bar  . . .  a full week covering it with more than 20,000 Lego pieces’

Designed by Munchausen. Details here.

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Type image generated by Wordle from my blog’s tags. Try it out here.

Found via Martin Klasch

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‘Includes type from Obama’s campaign and branding: Gotham, Knockout No. 48, Gill Sans, and Perpetua.’

Illustration for TIME by Dylan Roscover. Article here.

The State of the Union is tomorrow night.

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I really enjoy this stuff.

Many years ago I designed a large mural (in Photoshop) that was supposed to look like a bad movie miniature. TiltShiftMaker does it automatically. Or here’s instructions on doing it yourself.

And when I was a kid, my Uncle John had made the coolest train platform for under his Christmas tree. In it he employed his own take on HO scale suburban zoning – with a detailed downtown, country farms, residential section (in the hills, by a lake) and two circular tracks linking everything.

All the images shown are real, just TiltShifted into looking fake. More here.

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More inspiration at LEGO CL!CK.

Found via E Design Studio

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