20121231: thank you for everything by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #creativecommons #design #thanks

While I intend to continue to post here from time to time, this is the official last post of the second set of 365 sketches. I wanted to take this moment, at the end of 2012, to thank everyone who contributed to the project with ideas and support, patience and kindness. In many ways, this project changed, maybe saved, my life. Thanks to all of you.

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20121230: two vices: nicotine & caffeine by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #creativecommons #design

I have had some vices in my life, including alcohol and tetrahydrocannabinol. I’ve gotten rid of most of them, and am down to these two. The nicotine is in the addictive, but fairly harmless form of an electronic cigarette. It goes really well with a large cup of freshly brewed strong coffee. I’m not advocating that you start enjoying either of these if you don’t already, or even that you continue if you do, but I do enjoy this combination, especially without the others.

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20121229: Oh, wait by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #creativecommons #design #owait

“A phrase used to sarcastically indicate that something which is presumed or hoped for is, in fact, not true.  Typically used in discussions to either insult someone, or to refute an assertion by emphasizing why that assertion is inaccurate.” (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Oh%2C%20wait)

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20121228: panda made of text by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #creativecommons #design #typography

I’ve made a lot of animals out of text in this series, but this is my first panda. Enjoy!

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20121227: heart made of triangles by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #creativecommons #design

This is a heart made of modular triangles. Simple, fun, effective.

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20121226: Seriously by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #creativecommons #design #illustration

Most of my sketches come from snippets of conversations, observations, or sudden insights that I’d like to see illustrated, or like to illustrate myself. This one came from the idea that I wanted to recreate the lighting effect of neon. That, and someone close to me said, “Seriously, John, seriously?” Thanks for the inspiration!

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20121225: a universal hand by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #creativecommons #design #humanism

It is Christmas today in America. A good friend once asked me if I could do one thing to improve the world, what would it be? I thought on it, and after a while, I answered that I would give all humans the ability to feel the history, pain, and challenges of others. To have mandated omnipresent mediation. If you can feel, empathize, and understand the life of another, it might explain the choices that they make, the prejudices that they hold, and the pain that keeps them from treating one another and themselves with kindness. If I was to have one wish granted, this would be the one. To those of you who are celebrating today, I wish this for you. For those of you who celebrate other holidays in other ways, the very best of those seasons to you.

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20121224: Designers as defined by Buckminster Fuller by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #creativecommons #design

I really loved this particular definition of designers:

“A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist, and evolutionary strategist.”  - R. Buckminster Fuller.

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20121223: a study in primary color theory by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #creativecommons #design

This is the result of overlapping three primary colored circles in Inkscape, then reducing opacity in varying degrees, then adding other overlapping circles with the resulting color of the overlaps. The play resulted in a fun image that shows something interesting about color, transparency, and color relationship. If you like it, please share it. If you use it, please attribute me, and thanks! (cc-by lemasney)

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20121222: We go way back by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #creativecommons #design

I was passing someone who was in the middle of saying this, and thought about what a strange phrase it was. I decided to illustrate it, to try to give it some visual gravity.

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