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Justus Hayes
Aug 17, 20211 min read
Portfolio: Alex Jones - Lizard Skinned
Alex Jones is a complex and fascinatingly horrible human being. It seems fitting to me that he should embody the cliché of the stupidest...
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Justus Hayes
Aug 16, 20211 min read
Booking a Room at the Memory Palace, part 3: Gathering Evidence
I'm using this post at present as a photo dump. All pics are linked back to their sources and given a year when possible. 195? 1955, by...
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Justus Hayes
Aug 15, 20215 min read
Booking a Room at the Memory Palace, part 2: More Buffet Drama
I've had an interesting time researching 309 Belleville St, the building that was the Captain's Palace and is now the Pendray Inn and Tea...
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Justus Hayes
Aug 13, 20211 min read
Portfolio: Grow Deep, Not Just Tall
This design was part of the development process while doing some work for Luke and Sarah's Off-Grid Life. They said no to it due to...
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Justus Hayes
Aug 12, 20214 min read
Booking a Room at the Memory Palace, part 1: The Determined Wee Man
I got my first job as a busboy at the Captain's Palace Restaurant when I was 14, back in 1981. I started waiting tables when I was 17, a...
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Justus Hayes
Aug 11, 20211 min read
Portfolio: Bridal Camouflage
When the Lockdown started and I became a stay-at-home dad, I had some early graphic design successes that really motivated me and helped...
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Justus Hayes
Aug 9, 20211 min read
Portfolio: Kyoto Harlequin
This is just one variation of many that resulted from Simon Jowett's excellent Public Domain photo, "Alone in Kyoto." When I saw the...
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Justus Hayes
Aug 8, 20211 min read
Portfolio: Lisbon Facade
"Lisbon Facade" is a very good example of a design that provides multiple application options, depending on level of zoom and positioning....
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Justus Hayes
Aug 2, 20211 min read
Portfolio: Twiggy River Dawn
My wife, Lisa, has been working at a construction site on the Fraser River for over a year, and I have been driving her to and from work....
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Justus Hayes
Jul 28, 20213 min read
Modes of Interaction
One of the most important tools in my abstract-generating kit is Layer Mode, also called Blend Mode and Mixing Mode. In an image editing...
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Justus Hayes
Jul 28, 20211 min read
Portfolio: Barcelona Gothic Corner
The Gothic Quarter in Barcelona is a fabulous place in which I could have happily spent weeks wandering around and documenting. This...
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Justus Hayes
Jul 28, 20211 min read
Portfolio: Sarlat North Wood
Sarlat is a small, medieval town in the south of France, in the Perigord region, where I spent a few days in 2005. At the end of that...
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Justus Hayes
Jul 26, 20211 min read
Portfolio: Joe Biden Wants Us to C'Mon Man!!
Hey, Jack! Joe Biden, the greatest living socialist in America, is ushering in a new, golden Soviet era. Or at least, so some would have...
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Justus Hayes
Jul 25, 20211 min read
Portfolio: Oh, the Humanity!
Here's another design with a podcast back story. One of the podcasts I've been listening to for a long time is the Omnibus with Ken...
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Justus Hayes
Jul 25, 20211 min read
Portfolio: Angry Chicken Stares Into Your Soul
Angry chicken stares into your soul and finds you wanting. That chicken has attitude, but almost every chicken in my own personal...
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Justus Hayes
Jul 24, 20213 min read
Portfolio: 3 Globalists in a Hot Tub
This design is pure inside joke, although I think the image of three rich cartoon characters hanging out in a tropical beach-side hot tub...
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Justus Hayes
Jul 23, 20211 min read
Portfolio: Fuck Around, Find Trout
What is fishing if not fucking around? Return to Portfolio Return to Stencil Style
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Justus Hayes
Jul 23, 20211 min read
Portfolio: strung out in paris
I made this design in 2006, a few computers ago. The only version that has survived those upgrades lives on Flickr, 1600x1303. This...
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Justus Hayes
Jul 23, 20211 min read
Portfolio: "What Was He Thinking?"
"What Was He Thinking" is an example of me setting out to design a piece of merch specifically for WhyTheAlgarve. I wanted it to have a...
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Justus Hayes
Jul 19, 20211 min read
Portfolio: The Years Flew By
Once again, a design inspired by the time Lisa and I spent in Portugal. The original photo was taken inside the Sé (Lisbon Cathedral)...
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