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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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Justus Hayes
Jul 17, 20211 min read
Portfolio: Big Yellow Man
One of my earlier designs, made from a fall foliage photo I took down by the Fraser River. An effect here that I absolutely love is the...
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Justus Hayes
Jul 15, 20211 min read
Portfolio: Dynamic Steam Punk
This one has an Art Deco, Buck Rogers-y kind of feeling. The copper tones help a lot with this, along with clean lines in two-point...
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Justus Hayes
Jul 8, 20212 min read
Portfolio Building
My attempts to reinvent myself as a graphic designer require me building an online portfolio. Although I've been thinking about it, and...
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Justus Hayes
Jun 17, 20214 min read
The Fruits of "Alone in Kyoto"
Alone in Kyoto Photo by Simon Jowett, published as Public Domain in the Creative Commons via Flickr. Here is his description: "Today I...
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Justus Hayes
May 30, 20213 min read
Dead Dog Guitars
Here's an interesting project that I have simmering away in the background. Through the design work I did for Luke and Sarah's Off Grid...
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Justus Hayes
Mar 13, 20214 min read
The Plan and Design Developments
Since the start of the Pandemic and my transition to stay-at-home-dad, I have been devoting as much time as possible to graphic design...
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Justus Hayes
Mar 6, 20212 min read
Wikimedia Commons Debacle Resolved!
Yes, the great Wikimedia Debacle of 2021 is over. See this post for the history up to now. Here's the latest, and final I suppose,...
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Justus Hayes
Feb 27, 20211 min read
An Unnamed Remix Series Thanks to Frankfilm247
See the last image for the source photo by frankfilm247 that inspired and fed this remix. A night on the streets of Berlin at a food...
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Justus Hayes
Feb 20, 20211 min read
Ted Cruz Dreams of Cancun
Ted Cruz can't help but demonstrate what a privileged, self-entitled, self-absorbed, tone-deaf, insincere, disingenuous, hypocritical and...
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Justus Hayes
Feb 15, 20214 min read
I was afraid this might happen
My uploads to Wikimedia Commons have been flagged for deletion, and I am in the midst of defending them to the administrator who flagged...
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Justus Hayes
Feb 13, 20213 min read
Trump - Torn Posters / Queen Elizabeth II - Balmoral Tartan
I put a lot of thought into this one, and I'm quite proud of the results. As always, I have to acknowledge the efforts of the extremely...
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Justus Hayes
Feb 11, 20212 min read
Idle In the Canyon
This piece is, in my opinion, one of the most satisfying and pleasing images I have ever made. I named it "Idle in the Canyon" because it...
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Justus Hayes
Feb 10, 20211 min read
Potential T-Shirt for the Omnibus Podcast
I will have some words to say about this design, but for now this is a way to have a relatively high-res version of the design up and...
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Justus Hayes
Jan 23, 20212 min read
WhyTheAlgarve on Wikimedia Commons
***Edit Feb 21, 2020: It looks like Wikimedia Commons is drawing a hard line in the sand and have deleted all these files. There is a...
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Justus Hayes
Jan 22, 20212 min read
American Political
I have discovered that I really like making these things, but I'm not sure what to call them. They are Posterized (a filter), but not...
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Justus Hayes
Jan 14, 20211 min read
Signs of the Times
The issues facing America and, by extension, the rest of the world are so huge and daunting that I don't even know where to begin. In the...
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Justus Hayes
Jan 7, 20211 min read
Behold the Shopping Cart
This is a great example of my creative process at work. I go about my day, running errands, operating the Hayes Taxi. At some point I...
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Justus Hayes
Dec 31, 20202 min read
The Stock Image Industry's Worst Nightmare: Pexels!
I ran across the Pexels website a couple of weeks ago via a post on Instagram. I was frankly amazed to discover that they host a very...
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