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Giant Ampersand and New Wall Collage – Blog Post<\/a><\/strong>
\nI had one more blank wall in my apartment, so I decided to make a giant cardboard ampersand and decorate around it. The ampersand is in the typeface Caslon Bold Italic, and I also displayed other craft projects I had made, including tiny flag bunting and matte gray bottle vases. The typography poster is from PopChartLab<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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3D Costume Glasses – Blog Post<\/a><\/strong>
\nI made these costume glasses out of movie theater 3D glasses for a Halloween crafting video<\/a> I made with Tyler Oakley<\/a>. You can see all of my Halloween crafting videos in this playlist<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Trick-or-Treat Infographics Bags – Blog Post<\/a><\/strong>
\nConceptual trick-or-treat bags I made to represent various infographics, so that you can sort your candy as you get it. I made this for part of my Halloween crafting series, and you can see all the videos in that series in this playlist<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Bedazzled Sonic Screwdriver – Blog Post<\/a><\/strong>
\nFor my Halloween costume in 2012, I went as the Fabulous 11th Doctor from Doctor Who. To achieve this, I bedazzled my sonic screwdriver by gluing rhinestones all over it, and also made a sequined bow tie necklace and miniature fez. I included these projects in my Halloween crafting series, and you can see all the videos in that series in this playlist<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Doctor Who Guess Who Game – Blog Post<\/a> \u2022 Making Of<\/a><\/strong>
\nI had the idea one day – what if there was a Doctor Who version of the classic game Doctor Who? And so, I bought a Guess Who set off Ebay and made it myself, redesigning the cards, the game set, and the entire box.<\/p>\n

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Collaged Wine Bottles – Collaged Map Bottles<\/a> \u2022 Comic Book Wine Bottle<\/a> \u2022 Silver Wine Bottle<\/a><\/strong>
\nI love collaging onto wine bottles and turning them into vases. Above are three projects I\u2019ve done – collaged map bottles, a black and white comic book wine bottle, and a painted silver futuristic bottle.<\/p>\n

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Miniature The Fault in Our Stars – Blog Post<\/a><\/strong>
\nAfter The Fault in Our Stars<\/a>, the New York Times Bestselling book by John Green<\/a>, was released, I decided to reprise the miniature Paper Towns video<\/a> and make a minitature TFioS. The book contains the entire first two chapters, and is now signed by John<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n

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3D Papercraft Typography – Blog Post<\/a><\/strong>
\nAfter getting requests for a year about how to make the 3D Google letters I showed in a video about the Google Chromebook<\/a>, I made a tutorial<\/a> about how to make a papercraft Helvetica a.<\/p>\n

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Wall Collage – Blog Post<\/a> \u2022 Map Bunting Tutorial<\/a><\/strong>
\nA few months ago I had an empty wall in my room, and decided to fill it with a big collage. I photographed the process of putting it up and turned it into a time lapse video<\/a>, and I also put up a tutorial of how to make the map flag bunting<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Living Room Recoration – Blog Post<\/a><\/strong>
\nBefore I moved out of my old apartment, I redesigned the living room, setting up a composition on the shelf and putting up colored tape and typography pages to make it feel like one cohesive space.<\/p>\n

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Hand-drawn Typography – Blog Post<\/a><\/strong>
\nFor my video Graphic Design Without a Computer Part 1<\/a>, I put together some hand-drawn typography, traced out of magazines to make new compositions.<\/p>\n

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Steampunk Bubble Gun – Blog Post<\/a><\/strong>
\nAfter the New York City bubble battle in summer 2010, I ended up with this bubble gun, so I decided to paint and modify it, inspired by steampunk styles.<\/p>\n

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Alice in Wonderland Hats – Big Hat<\/a> \u2022 Mini Hat<\/a><\/strong>
\nTo celebrate the release of the Tim Burton Alice in Wonderland movie, I made a hat out of cardboard, duct tape, cards, wire, and other assorted materials inspired by the movie. I then made a miniature version and put up a video tutorial<\/a> on how to make it yourself.<\/p>\n

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Caboose Puzz3D – Blog Post<\/a><\/strong>
\nMy sister loves to do Puzz3Ds, so for her Christmas gift in 2009, I made her a custom puzzle of the caboose that is in the backyard of our childhood home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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