Retro 8-bit game poster design, and a political statement against the genocide of innocent aliens in computer games.
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Retro-like poster design in 3D pixel style.
Sevensheaven images and prints are for sale at sevensheaven.nl
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3d,
astronauts,
design,
metin seven,
pixels,
poster,
retro,
sevensheaven,
space,
stars,
vintage,
voxels
Illustration for a roll banner of an Android event.
The image was rendered in 9600 x 24000 pixels (about 80 x 200 cm in 300 DPI).
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android,
building,
design,
event,
experience,
logo,
meeting,
meetup,
metin seven,
poster,
robot,
roll banner,
rollbanner,
sevensheaven
Poster design in honor of the 30th anniversary of Namco's classic 8-bit game Pac-Man.
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So I'm a week late on this, but it looks like the moratorium on all baseball-related announcements during the World Series didn't apply to baseball cards. After reading what everybody else has had to say on this, it looks like I'll be in the singular on this when I say that the design doesn't do much for me.
It seems that Topps is big on borders lately, be they black (like 2007) or white (like 2008), and it's not doing it for me. They've always had a border of some sort, but so thick? What's the point of that? It just makes me think that their designers couldn't come up with enough to fill the space. I'm also not a big fan of making the Topps logo a focal point of the card. They could just as easily have moved the circus circle type down a bit and moved the logo to a corner.
You know, I see what they're doing here. This is a throwback, old school/new school design aimed at bridging gaps between my generation of collectors and kids today. But the sets it's referencing, the 1986's and the 1988's, they had thin borders (by comparison). Also, what's up with the foil name?
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Cardboard Junkie
Stale Gum
A German company has targeted the oil rich deserts of the Middle East as the place to build a new 68 story office tower that would supply 100% of its own energy.
A handful of architects recently dreamt up a state-of-the-art tower, a giant 68-story building projected to rise to a lofty height of 322 meters (1,056 feet), which would make it number 22 on the list of the world's tallest buildings. What is even more impressive is that not only will the Burj al-Taqa ("Energy Tower") consume very little energy -- but it will also produce all its energy itself.
Eckhard Gerber, one of the head architects proposing the groundbreaking new design, is hopeful of reaching an agreement with the Bahrain based company Almoayed Holdings by year's end. He is also attracting interest from companies in Dubai and Riyadh.
The project would come with a $406 million price tag and specific innovations that include:
- a giant solar shield covering nearly 2/3rds of the building surface
- a new generation of vacuum glazed windows for insulation against 50 degree Celsius heat
- a cooling system to utilizing seawater stored underground
- a 17,000 square metre solar panel island floating on the ocean within view of the seaside tower
- hydrogen acquired through the electrolysis of seawater that will power fuel cell generators in the evening
The only question that remains is, if these leading oil producers are willing to make this step why isn't Canada's emerging oil wealth doing the same?
Hat tip to Adult ADD Strengths