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Jeremy Pettis created an animal type off each letter of the alphabet for a thesis project. My favorites are the cobra, fruit bat, iguana, quail, and wolf.

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Mark Khaisman using transparent packing tape to create images. He begins with clear plexiglas and layers the tape to build up the opacity. As the tape builds up it starts to become less and less clear making the dark areas. This is a really creative and interesting look.

Source: Make magazine

Stanford has an online tool that will convert images to 3D scene. The system will analyze parts of the image and figure out which parts would be edges to the 3d.

Source: Make

Presented at Siggraph 2007 this video above shows content aware image resizing. With this an image can be enlarged or shrunk with some sort of smart idea of what to get rid of. Also there are built in tools for specific removal. This added with the shrink tool would make masking a thing of the past. Very cool feature that I expect Adobe might be dropping a check for.

A great radio station ad offers people passing to take a free air guitar from a rack. This creative ad really sticks out and those who pass it will remember it for a long time also remembering the radio station it was for.

An ad showcasing 4,820 Campbell’s Soup Cans spelling out “hunger”. A sign next to it recommends customers to purchase a can and make a donation. As each person takes a can the word hunger starts to disappear.

Source: Direct Daily via Neatorama

Although this photoshop tutorial is more on the comedy side then teaching anything it still is pretty funny and a good idea.

This robot created by Sylvain Calinon will ask if you would like to have a portrait “drawn” of yourself. If you answer yes it takes an image and then proceeds to draw it. Some I am sure will argue this is nothing but a high tech printer and in some ways it is but it is very exciting to see where the possibilities of this technology will take us.

Source: Neatorama