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A daily hide and seek adventure to find beauty–in coffee, nature, design, art, architecture, words, gasps and sighs. Also writing at fiftyfiftyvision.com, tourofnoregrets.com, and working to make the world a kinder place with marketing strategy and design at Tackett+Barbaria // www.tbdesign.com// Thanks for stopping by.

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It's time for me to take a break from Tumblr. It's not you, Tumblr, it's me. I just can't keep up with all of this social media and need to cut back. And, the truth is, I have a new project, This Is Plan Be. I'd love to visit with you over there. Wise words, free stickers, and an abundance of kindness. http://www.thisisplanbe.com/

#thisisplanbe #bekind #kindnessiscool

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Miniature Paper Architecture That Moves by Charles Young [artist on tumblr] | via

In his spare time, Edinburgh-based Charles Young creates these miniature paper scenes that move. With a Bachelors and a Masters in Architecture from Edinburgh College of Art, he studied the way buildings are constructed for six years. Though he’s been using different materials and techniques to form his miniature models, he always comes back to watercolor paper. “In my design projects I used model-making as a way of sketching and developing ideas,” he said.

Collectively, he calls these models, Paperholm, a growing paper city. His project was started in late August, as a way for him to make something every day. Depending on how complex his pieces are, they can take anywhere from 30 minutes to 3 hours to make. “Over the last three months I really got to know the material that I’m working with a lot better,” he tells us. “By trying to make different shapes with the paper you get to learn its limits in terms of how much it will bend and how finely you can cut it. The paper that I’ve been using is just ordinary watercolor paper but it has a good balance between its flexibility and its strength. The most important thing is simply to use a sharp blade to cut with, this allows you to get good straight edges and to pick out fine detail.”

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Last light of the day. UC Davis Arboretum.

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Project Astoria, Todd Baxter

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Our new pal Emily wood burned our logo into the fresh cut of her Christmas tree! This is legitimate! (at Christmas Ya’ll!)

Launched. http://www.thisisplanbe.com/

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"Design is thinking made visual." - Saul Bass, Graphic Designer and Academy Award winning filmmaker

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Kilim Butterfly Chair

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Calico | Kat o’Sullivan | Via

When american artist Kat o’Sullivan purchased a run-down 1840s residence in upstate New York, she planned for its total reconstruction into a psychedelic retreat, painted in a spectrum of rainbow hues and large-scale frescoes. Since then, she and partner mason brown have added oddly shaped windows, vibrantly colored exterior paneling and a pink front door to their home, transforming it into ‘Calico’. black-painted trim gives the entire scheme a cartoon-like quality, as if torn from the pages of a comic magazine. A hand-painted mural illustrated near the roof draws out the shape of smiling mouth, while two adjacent window-frames serve as the eyes of the architectural face.