Syndicated Passion

Doug R

Pleasantly Insane

Sometimes one design leads to another. A couple of years ago, I set out to design a coffee cup that would capture my uncensored personality and make it relatable to other people in a creative way. I started this design with the line, “I am original.” There is nothing more unique in life than originality. […]

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Burn Bright

Have you ever had any doubts that you could achieve your greatest dream in life? Oh, you have… Good, because you are not alone, I have as well. That fact makes this the perfect opportunity for me to explain the poster, “burn bright.” When you hit a point in life where your actions are building

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Autumn Plays

This is a short story about how I let my writing flow to the sound of an image that led into the development of the poster “autumn plays.” Each line played out with the feeling that the picture gave me, or as I call it, the sound of the image. I call it the sound

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Phantom Call

Sometimes when we think about the experiences that have shaped our life, we can drift away from reality like a ghost floating over the memories, and some are good, and some are haunting. Floating over these memories is where the haunting poem, Phantom Call was rendered. This poem was written for a ghost that has

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Live Fashionable

Do you love to take selfies of yourself? How about glaring aimlessly at your body lines in a full framed mirror? Well, if that is true, then we are on the same path within these written lines, and about eleven layers of styling porcelain. The Live Fashionable mug is designed with enough written flexibility to

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Old Jon Boat

Do you love fishing? Do you love the gentle feel of waves tipping a boat side to side while you venture out to catch a giant? Oh, you do … good! It is a beautiful feeling to participate in one of nature’s oldest practices, Jon Boat fishing. This practice relates to my earliest memories fishing

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Flashing Dream

I had a dream. I had a flashing dream the other night. It felt like a magical wand sprinkling angel dust over my heart to help rekindle my imagination. It was a dream that made my thoughts and feelings feel fantasized in the morning. A captured feeling, but in a wholesome, authentic way that can

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Medicine

This post will explain why I wrote and designed the graphic, “medicine.” But first, have you ever liked a person so much that you always wanted to be close to them? A time where you just craved skin-to-skin contact all the time. I hope that you have experienced this kind of affection because it is

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Silhouette Clay

Why did I write the note, Silhouette Clay? Well, it all began by thinking about the words “we can dance along the bay,” and then it evolved from those words into a seven-line poetic note. I set out to write this poetry with a vision that could give the reader a deep introspective of a

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Drift Away

Do you drift away in thought when you go to the beach? Does the calm cooling breeze that moves along the tree branches calm your mind, or does that thousand-mile stare out to sea bring you peace? All these factors should have a place in your heart and mind with every visit to the ocean

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