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  • Dan McPharlin

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    Illustrator and designer Dan McPharlin gives little information about himself, his work or his clients on his website, which essentially just offers a download of a PDF portfolio from 2006 (also lacking in background information) and a link to his Flickr stream, which serves as his actual portfolio on the web. In the latter you…

  • The Athenaeum

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    The Athenaeum is essentially a virtual museum, in some ways similar to the Art Renewal Center (my post here) or the Web Gallery of Art (my post here), but with its own focus and strengths. As of this writing, The Athenaeum lists their online collection of art images at 43,339 (with 14 added in the…

  • Steve Thomas

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    Illustrator Steve Thomas, when not creating graphics and illustrations for newspapers in his day job, turns his imagination to other places, creating wonderful retro-future travel posters that invite you to explore interplanetary travel to destinations in the Solar System, or interstellar travel in a familiar galaxy that is “far far away”. In addition to the…

  • Color Vision & Art

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    Color Vision & Art is an online feature on WebExhibits, which describes itself as an “interactive museum of science, humanities and culture”. The feature is a series of related articles, accompanied by images and simple Flash interactives, that explore the relationship of human color perception to the uses of color in art. The feature is…

  • PumpkinMixer

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    I don’t often talk about my own projects on Lines and Colors, but sometimes they’re enough fun to be worthy of note. PumpkinMixer is my new app for the iPhone and iPod touch. Like my other apps, DinoMixer and MonsterMixer, it was developed with my friend and colleague Leon Stankowski, who created the coding to…

  • Chappatte

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    Patrick Chappatte is a political cartoonist with an international reach, and a personal history to match. Born in Pakistan, Chappatte was raised in Singapore and later Switzerland. He lived in New York for a time and now lives and works in Geneva. Chappette’s global view comes across in his cartoons for the International Herald Tribune…