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		<title>The Invention of Color</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Beischel</dc:creator>
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Calvin&#8217;s Dad explains the history of color

The next time I teach Photoshop class, I&#8217;m somehow going to work this Calvin &#038; Hobbes comic into the explanation of how to add color to a black &#038; white photo.
I remember thinking the exact same thing when I was a little kid. My childlike logic deduced that black [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ohayocon Pics</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Beischel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anime conventions are great places to people-watch. You see so many interesting, funny or just downright weird things. A few weeks ago I went to Ohayocon up in Columbus, OH with Ricky Henry. He dressed up as Speed Racer. I dressed up as me. We met some furries. The dealer room smelled funny.
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		<title>E-Marketing = Anime?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Beischel</dc:creator>
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The cover to a $90 textbook.

What the hell. This is a real textbook. A real textbook that costs $90 dollars. Seriously, anime? This isn&#8217;t an isolated incident either; there&#8217;s also The Manga Guide to Calculus and The Manga Guide to Molecular Biology, among other choice selections for the discriminating Japanophile who cannot function unless absorbing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Only You Can Prevent Pixellation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Beischel</dc:creator>
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Popped into my head from out of nowhere a few days ago and I just had to make it. Figured out the Futura Condensed Extra Bold is the font of the original Smokey the Bear poster by running it through WhatTheFont. Took a headshot of ol&#8217; Smokey into Photoshop, reduced it down to about 20 pixels [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Street Fighter Silhouettes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:35:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Beischel</dc:creator>
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Preview of a series in progress. I&#8217;m taking the official Street Fighter 4 artwork and making vector duotone silhouettes from them. Each character&#8217;s form is done in black and then an accent is added, matching the character&#8217;s main signature color and attack. The process of vectorizing is simplified with live-trace, but I&#8217;m still doing a lot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building a Better MySpace</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:22:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Beischel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a client approach me and ask if I knew how to customize MySpace. I replied &#8220;Sure can!&#8221; thinking that it couldn&#8217;t possibly be that difficult. Oh sweet merciful Jesus was I ever wrong. Instead of elegant semantic code full of classes to hook into, MySpace is a horrible mishmash of tables, divs, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MAKE MY LOGO BIGGER</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:34:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Beischel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I could probably do a better job if I had some of this stuff: Make My Logo Bigger Cream. It&#8217;s a marketing managers dream come true.
A sarcastic designer fed up with dictations from upper management? Nahhhh, that never happens.
And on a side note&#8230;
Just noticed that Google Ads is serving up an ad for the new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ash Ketchum Delivers Mail in Norway</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:39:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Beischel</dc:creator>
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Old but classy


Posten, I choose you!

I recently found out that the Norwegian postal service (called Posten) has changed their logo. Now, if you&#8217;re familiar with children&#8217;s cartoons at all, you&#8217;ll know that the new logo looks exactly like a pokeball from the show Pokemon. Definitely unintentional, but instantly makes the logo a joke for those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Your Color IQ?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:04:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Beischel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Color]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I got linked to a Color IQ test from the Something Awful forums. It&#8217;s an interesting little exercise. There are 4 gradient ranges, each with 22 levels. Only the first and last colors are set. The rest are randomized and it&#8217;s your job to arrange them properly. The lower your final score, the higher your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Busywork</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Beischel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Business Card]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been pretty busy this week. Set the axe to the grindstone and finished the site layout for MB Design. Had it go live on Sunday, so now I can FINALLY put together business cards to hand out. It&#8217;s still a work in progress, as I&#8217;m not entirely happy with the copy, but I have [...]]]></description>
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