{"id":6185,"date":"2012-12-25T11:55:25","date_gmt":"2012-12-25T16:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/365sketches.org\/?p=5262"},"modified":"2025-11-14T22:36:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T03:36:39","slug":"20121225-a-universal-human-hand-by-john-lemasney-via-365sketches-org-creativecommons-design-humanism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2012\/12\/25\/20121225-a-universal-human-hand-by-john-lemasney-via-365sketches-org-creativecommons-design-humanism\/","title":{"rendered":"20121225: a universal human hand by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #creativecommons #design #humanism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5263\" style=\"width: 760px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a title=\"20121225: a universal hand by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #creativecommons #design #humanism\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/drawing-of-hand.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5263\" data-attachment-id=\"5263\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/20110108\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/201101081.png?fit=940%2C198&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"940,198\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"365 sketches logo\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;365 sketches logo&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;365 sketches logo&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/201101081.png?fit=940%2C198&amp;ssl=1\" class=\" wp-image-5263 \" style=\"margin:5px;\" alt=\"20121225: a universal hand by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #creativecommons #design #humanism\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/drawing-of-hand.png?w=750&#038;ssl=1\"  \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5263\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">20121225: a universal hand by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #creativecommons #design #humanism<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It is <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Christmas\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christmas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener noreferrer\">Christmas<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>If you like it, please share it, and thanks!<\/p>\n<p>lemasney, design, open source, <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Creative Commons\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage noopener noreferrer\">creative commons<\/a>, cc-by, typography, poster, <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Inkscape\" href=\"https:\/\/inkscape.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage noopener noreferrer\">Inkscape<\/a>, <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"GIMP\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gimp.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage noopener noreferrer\">GIMP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Look at my favorite images from this project on the <a title=\"http:\/\/365sketches.org\/slideshow-and-catalog\/\" href=\"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/graphic-design-portfolio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Portfolio page<\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/lemasney\/portfolio\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/lemasney\/portfolio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n This image is Creative Commons Attribution licensed (cc-by lemasney)\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\" style=\"font-size:1em;\">Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2012\/12\/23\/20121223-a-study-in-primary-color-theory-by-john-lemasney-via-365sketches-org-creativecommons-design\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">20121223: a study in primary color theory by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #creativecommons #design<\/a> (365sketches.org)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2012\/12\/21\/20121221-on-the-music-in-noise-by-john-lemasney-via-365sketches-org-creativecommons-design\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">20121221: On the music in noise by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #creativecommons #design<\/a> (365sketches.org)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2012\/12\/16\/20121216-most-everything-means-something-by-john-lemasney-via-365sketches-org-creativecommons-design-cc-by\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">20121216: Most everything means something by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #creativecommons #design #cc-by<\/a> (365sketches.org)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1128,3654],"tags":[230,335,411,3870,599],"class_list":{"0":"post-6185","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-illustration","7":"category-portfolio","8":"tag-creative-commons","9":"tag-gimp","10":"tag-inkscape","11":"tag-john-lemasney","12":"tag-open-source","13":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3h6y2-1BL","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6187,"url":"https:\/\/lemasney.com\/consulting\/2012\/12\/27\/20121227-heart-made-of-triangles-by-john-lemasney-via-365sketches-org-creativecommons-design\/","url_meta":{"origin":6185,"position":0},"title":"20121227: heart made of triangles by John LeMasney via 365sketches.org #creativecommons #design","author":"lemsy","date":"2012-12-27","format":false,"excerpt":"This is a heart made of modular triangles. 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