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Designspiration is focused on maintaining a high level of great design inspiration to share around the world.

"Passed in 1975, Oregon's Percent for Art legislation mandates that 1% of the direct construction funds of new or remodeled state buildings with construction budgets of $100,000 or more be set aside for the acquisition of art work. The Oregon Arts Commission oversees the Program and maintains archives of slides, photographs and related documentation for the works of art selected. Encompassing over a 30-year period, the database offers access to over 5200 items. The collection offers glimpses of 1545 unique artwork creations, visual narratives of the creative process, and documentation."

Kyle Lambert's personal website to explore about his artworks.

Artists Giving Hope is a non-profit organization encouraging artists to come together to inspire people to act with compassion and kindness, regardless of race, gender, sexuality or beliefs. We do this through performance, education and supporting like-minded charities. We are starting with the dance world and expanding to other art and performance forms as well, including musicians, actors and athletes. My Brother is apart of this recent organization spreading an amazing message. Its a group of 18 top dancers in the country. Visit the website to learn more and donate!

According to the website, "Draw Something is THE addictive social drawing game and its now available free for Apple iOS and Android Devices! Draw and guess words, play cooperatively with friends or competitively with rivals." It's essentially a game in which you draw pictures on your screen, then send them to a friend who will attempt to guess what it is and then draw one back.

StumbleUpon is a discovery engine (a form of web search engine) that finds and recommends web content to its users. Its features allow users to discover and rate Web pages, photos, and videos that are personalized to their tastes and interests using peer-sourcing and social-networking principles. I use StumbleUpon to bookmark creative or inspiring websites and to explore other art forms.

I like this StumbleUpon! I found the coolest page that shows how to fold a square of fabric into 12 or so different styles of sack- er wrap. I like the wine bag :)

I love using stumbleupon as another resource for viewing and reading about different art, music, activities, and other creative art sectors. I like how you can narrow down your searches to your specific interests.

Ingress is a game that involves the player to be active and physically go to destination points. It has high exposure to arts and culture due to the fact that most destinations are some form of art.

Next-generation video entertainment network for the gamer lifestyle and beyond.

an online comic maker that allows students the creativity to design their own characters, add sound, upload pictures and images, use a variety of speech bubbles, and print, download or embed the finished comic.

Sketchfab is another web app that lets people look at 3D models in an interactive way to get a better idea of an object, as opposed to still pictures or video. Expect to see it more in the near future!

This web app lets you view 3D models in your browser, and rotate, pan, and zoom to get the full picture of an object in 3D space. For 3D artists, this is an awesome new format for showing 3D pieces in an engaging way.

Shutterfly is an online art tool used to create photo books, holiday cards, prints, calanders, and much more. Millions of people access shutterfly to store, share and enjoy billons of photos through easy uploads and award-winning products.

This is a tumblr blog run by Instagram that talks about all the factors that allows for the success and powering of the social media site Instagram. They say, "One of the questions we always get asked at meet-ups and conversations with other engineers is, "what's your stack?" We thought it would be fun to give a sense of all the systems that power Instagram, at a high-level; you can look forward to more in-depth descriptions of some of these systems in the future. This is how our system has evolved in the just-over-1-year that we've been live, and while there are parts we're always re-working, this is a glimpse of how a startup with a small engineering team can scale to our 14 million+ users in a little over a year."

Gina Ayers Signore is a professional artist and photographer who creates images using a variety of mediums, including acrylic collage painting, sculpture and digital photography. Gina combines her artistic sensibilities with her affinity and passion for nature to produce unique perspectives in both her fine art and photography. She displays her work in regional galleries and has been selected in numerous juried art shows. The archival fine art photographs have been altered using photoshop software, acrylic paints, water color and color pencils. Collage paintings are made of acrylic paint on arches print paper and take months to complete.

"Mission (sub)Urban Projections champions emerging artists, cultivates community, and generates vibrancy in downtown Eugene through a multimedia arts festival. Vision (sub)Urban Projections is a free festival that strives to create a vibrant and colorful environment fostering conversation and appreciation for contemporary art and new media. Through digital projections, the streets and alleys will be illuminated and the downtown landscape transformed, creating an inviting atmosphere for people to gather and enjoy the city while supporting local businesses, artists, and culture."