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		<title>Branding with shape and color</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Branding.
Sometimes it's as simple as a shape and a color.  For example, you know the brand name of this tractor even though you can't read it in this photo. And you know what truck this is even though the name has been pixelated in this picture.
 
The truck's color and shape say something to me, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blackwooddesign.com/blog/?p=136</link>
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		<title>Cowboy Cool</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My newest website is designed for the Wildwood Smokehouse &#038; Saloon in the outskirts of Iowa City.  Rather wisely, I believe, it is located just off Interstate-80 where it meets the Herbert Hoover Highway.  This makes it very handy for people from Iowa City but also the entire East Central Iowa area to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blackwooddesign.com/blog/?p=131</link>
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		<title>More Frank Lloyd Wright, with hollyhocks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Frank Lloyd Wright experimented with architectural styles all his life.  The cement block houses of Los Angeles were intriguing but apparently are not surviving nature very well.  

Wright came up with an interesting representation of the hollyhock flower in the decor of this house.  The hollyhock was the favorite flower of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blackwooddesign.com/blog/?p=104</link>
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		<title>William Morris, Recycler</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Design: we cycle through phases, then later recycle again.  Clothes from the 70s and 80s are becoming popular again.  The cycle of rebirth of design trends seems to have speeded up in my own lifetime, but certainly it's been going on for centuries.]]></description>
		<link>http://blackwooddesign.com/blog/?p=63</link>
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		<title>Nature by Design</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever heard of a Herkimer diamond?
Nope, not actual diamonds.  Herkimers are simply one type of quartz crystal.  The world abounds in quartz.  But Herkimers are special and cool and unusual - they have two terminations.  Instead of growing out of a rock and having one pointy end, they have two pointy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blackwooddesign.com/blog/?p=52</link>
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		<title>Frank Lloyd Wright in Iowa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you live in east central Iowa, treat yourself to a visit to Cedar Rock, one of FLW's Usonian houses.  It was built for an Iowa businessman; once he and his wife passed away, they left their beloved house to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, including a trust to take care of the house [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blackwooddesign.com/blog/?p=26</link>
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		<title>Vintage Disneyland</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A very cool Flicker set of vintage Disneyland posters can be found here.
Like the era, these posters have clean edges, bold shapes and bright colors.  Disneyland calls itself the Happiest Place on Earth, and the design of the posters reflects that beautifully.  While I happen to think that Disneyland has the highest concentration of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blackwooddesign.com/blog/?p=14</link>
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		<title>Blackwood By Design</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the blog for Blackwood Design.  I'll be talking about all sorts of design.  Stay tuned.
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		<link>http://blackwooddesign.com/blog/?p=10</link>
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