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On embroidery / cross-stitch patterns as input for digital designers, and oh yeah, coincidentally, the death of the pixel. Duh. I love this man.

On the Death and 441-Year Life of the Pixel blog image text The struggle to adequately render letterforms on a pixel grid is a familiar one, and an ancient one as well: this bitmap alphabet is from La Vera Perfettione del Disegno di varie sorte di ricami, an embroidery guide by Giovanni Ostaus published in 1567.

The struggle to adequately render letterforms on a pixel grid is a familiar one, and an ancient one as well: this bitmap alphabet is from La Vera Perfettione del Disegno di varie sorte di ricami, an embroidery guide by Giovanni Ostaus published in 1567.

Box game animation

Classic video game characters invade New York.

pixels

PIXELS+by+PATRICK+JEAN. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xcv6dv_pixels-by-patrick-jean_creation