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Started as an honors project for college student Peter Edmunds, Swarm Sketch quickly took on a life of its own. From the website:
SwarmSketch is an ongoing online canvas that explores the possibilities of distributed design by the masses. Each week it randomly chooses a popular search term which becomes the sketch subject for the week. In this way, the collective is sketching what the collective thought was important each week. A new sketch begins after one week, or after the previous sketch reaches one thousand lines, whichever comes first.
The project has been live for 865 days and there are more than 200 sketches in the gallery – some of them truly capture the likeness of the intended word(s).
You have 5 more days to contribute to the Gypsies sketch. Go play. For more collaborative art fun, check out the links page.
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OK – maybe I’m pushing it a little, but it is Friday and I couldn’t resist. The name alone made me look and then the name of the website selling them made me laugh and then the cups themselves? Well, I think somebody had too much time on their hands!
Pick Your Nose Party Cups as seen on Perpetual Kid
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Barnaby Barford wasn’t thinking about polymer clay when he created these bone china coffee cups. He designed the stamp cups in an effort to create a more pleasing pattern than the always-annoying coffee stain ring that cups and mugs leave on furniture.
If you can’t fight ‘em, join ‘em, right? Clever, clever, clever!
You can buy the cups here. A bit pricey, yes, but do you see the polymer clay possibilities? Still chuckling? More from this designer here.
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I need to do something right now that doesn’t require too many brain cells. Grant Robinson has developed a passle of fun web toys for people to play with – just the ticket for me today. My personal favorites are the Onion Skin Prototype (a very, very simple animation tool), Scribble and the popular Montage-a-Google, featured here.
Montage-a-Google uses Google’s image search to generate a large grid of images based on keywords entered by the user. Not only an interesting way of browsing the net, it can also be used to create desktop pictures or even posters.
Bet Lisa Clarke would have had fun with this when she was trying to pick her latest color scheme.
Want to see a gaggle of Google montages? Flickr baby, Flickr. Go play…
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Looking for some pattern inspiration for your next cane? Patterns for image transfers? Try the Tartan Maker.
Don’t feel like playing, but still crave a little pattern inspiration? Check out the gallery. Fun.
