No matter how down we are in 2011, have faith that 2012 will be better.

Merry Christmas to you and your family!

Randomly selected past five winners of PEBA and designed for each a minimalist poster using Webdings as graphics. Quotes were taken from each blog's actual comments.

Inspired by 10steps.sg.


















Webdings used: Animus - Alt 155, Hulascoop - Alt 153, PEBA - Alt 37, Pink Tarha - Alt 135, Pope's Palipasan - Alt 152, The Sandbox - Alt 69.

Five months ago, a group of individuals 'crowdsourced' the design for Human Rights.

From over 15,000 submission from more than 190 countries, they narrowed it down to 10...



Two weeks ago, they have chosen a winner.



The design is by Predrag Stakic, a Serb.

The website states: The Human Rights logo is an open source product, free to be used by everyone, everywhere - for the purpose of promoting and protecting Human Rights.

More background info here.

Isla de Nebz's previous article here.

Ten years ago, it killed innocent people.



Ten years after, it saw deaths of more innocent people, it created paranoia among people of different cultures and religions, it led the world into wars and occupations.



September 11 in 2001 and its aftermath brought the worst out of people.

I share with you what I recently learned in Adobe Illustrator.

It's the use of the rotate tool to create flowers (or perhaps some fractals or a sun background).




Click on the ellipse tool and draw an object.



Click rotate tool. By default the anchor stays in the middle. Click the lowest part of the object (which transfers the anchor from midpoint to the bottom of the object ). See Step 1.

Drag the object to its left (or right) and before releasing the mouse, click 'Alt'. (This creates a copy of the object at an angle where you released the mouse). See Step 2.

Click Control-D repeatedly (short cut key for 'Transform Again') to complete a full circle. See Step 3.

Acknowledgements go to bitterbox and tutsplus where I learned this tutorial.

Some samples here.

Homograph, jumbled, anagram. I don't know what you call these but it's definitely a word play -- words that when transposed create different meanings.


Eat to live, live to eat.



Play fair, fair play.



Learn to play, play to learn.



If you fancy it, you can download these graphics. I created them using Adobe Illustrator.