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This is a portfolio of my work in many forms. It should give you some insight as to the products I might help you to create.

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20121130: How to Play Slapsies by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #poster #howto #infographic #games

20121130: How to Play Slapsies by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #poster #howto #infographic #games
20121130: How to Play Slapsies by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #poster #howto #infographic #games
20121130: How to Play Slapsies by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #poster #howto #infographic #games
20121130: How to Play Slapsies by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #poster #howto #infographic #games

So, I’m hoping this poster will be a breakout hit of this series; I’ve always loved this game. Slapsies is so simple, very straightforward, and highly portable. However, it also allows for great strategy, requires determination, has poker-style emotional skills, and tests one’s endurance in such a way that it will please any hard-core gamer. It wins over players quickly with laughter, victory, fun, and it goes with you everywhere you go. It may just be the perfect game.

tags: gaming, portable, casual gaming, hands, slapsies, pastime, lemasney, open source, Inkscape, fun

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20121129: Like a boss by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #leadership

20121129: Like a boss by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #leadership
20121129: Like a boss by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #leadership
20121129: Like a boss by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #leadership

I’ve had a lot of bosses in my life. I’ve had bad, good and great ones. The worst ones make the best job intolerable. The best ones do some key things that I like to think make work a joy. Leaders who share their knowledge to the degree that they want you to know everything in their heads, those who cross train and develop you, are the best. Those who look forward, at issues that lie ahead, and replace or dismiss issues of little importance or value, are great ones. Those who see the workers who are struggling and find ways to pull them up and out of the muck are the leaders that I seek out. Those that put the organization, the customer, and the worker ahead of themselves in their decisions are great. Those that remember what it was to have to report and answer to someone like themselves and not take advantage of that fear are admirable. Those that remember what it was to not be in their postion and revel in the joy of their position, like a boss.

tags: leadership, kindness, joy, work, roots, service, help, solutions, teaching

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20121128: A heart cut out of paper by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #love

20121128: A heart cut out of paper by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org
20121128: A heart cut out of paper by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org
20121128: A heart cut out of paper by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org
20121128: A heart cut out of paper by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org

So, for keeping designer’s block low in this project, I have devised a few techniques to stay creative. The one with the most potential so far, in my opinion, is one in which I use a favorite collection, usually a book, of phrases, quotes, concepts, songs or motifs as a starting point, open to one or more random pages, and illustrate the idea that results from these random choices. In this particular case, I was using the concepts “shadow play” and “cut paper” from the book Universal Principles of Design, a wonderful collection of key ideas and innovations in design. I placed a rectangle on the page, and drew a heart on top of it with the pencil tool. I selected both and used the path difference operation. I duplicated the path, moved it a bit, made it gray, and applied transparency and blur to give a shadow. I tweaked the color with the gradient tool and called it done.

tags: heart, cut paper, paper, cut, shadow, shadow play, sketch, open source, Inkscape

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20121126: Lucky Bamboo sketch by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design

20121126: Lucky Bamboo sketch by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design
20121126: Lucky Bamboo sketch by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design
20121126: Lucky Bamboo sketch by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design
20121126: Lucky Bamboo sketch by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design

I recently got a gift that I thought was incredibly thoughtful, insightful, and a key indicator to the giver’s state of mind and grace. I’ve always loved bamboo, in part because of its aesthetics, and in part because of what it represents to me, ideologically. It is quick-growing, bright, colorful, and overtaking. It can become incredibly tall, grows in a large family, and provides a lovely shade. It is evergreen, hardy, and resilient. It can be used to build, is very easy to replenish, and is highly recyclable. It is strong, bends without snapping, and has an amazing temper. It is quiet, refined, and calming. It can be used to make furniture, paper, buildings and anything else that wood does, without the preciousness or scarcity of wood and all that entails. Thanks so much to Katy for the gift, it is perfect, and I hope that this is some small indication of what it, and you, mean to me.

tags: bamboo, gift, tall, strong, shade, sketch, kind, lucky, digital

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20121125: A man with an elephant’s step by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design

20121125: A man with an elephant's step by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design
20121125: A man with an elephant's step by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design
20121125: A man with an elephant's step by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design
20121125: A man with an elephant’s step by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design

I feel like a man with the step of an elephant

This is a metaphor for me. I often feel that I still have the weight that I’ve lost when I walk. I feel that my personality is heavy when I am light. I feel that my steps in conversation, exchange, and entry is sometimes clumsy and heavy-footed. I feel like I am often seen as a 2 ton graceless monster before someone knows me, and I work to make that extra shadow disappear for people as quickly as possible.

tags: animal, sketch, shadow, metaphor, man, me, self-portrait, elephant, transformation

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20121124: You can’t always get what you want by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #flowchart

20121124: You can't always get what you want by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #flowchart
20121124: You can't always get what you want by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #flowchart
20121124: You can't always get what you want by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #flowchart
20121124: You can’t always get what you want by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #cc #design #flowchart

This is a flowchart that diagrams the classic Rolling Stones song “You can’t always get what you want” but the reality is, the thing that you want is usually right in front of you, disguised as what you think you need. The thing you thought you wanted? It just went further down a rabbit hole.

tags: stones, get what you want, get what you need, want, need, wants, needs

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