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Grotesque bandages make your boo-boos look like horrific wounds

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Boo-Boos bandages make ordinary cuts look much worse. Photo: Sherwood Forlee

Blood makes Sherwood Forlee squeamish, it really does. So imagine the surprise of friends who know his weakness when he created a type of bandage for the everyday boo-boo that creates the illusion of a stomach-churning wound that would make most people call 911.

Forlee’s sense of humor is sicker than the images on his Boo-Boos bandages, though. He says he was in a “jovial spirit” when he began drawing up plans for the morbid adhesive strips.

“They look disgusting, but they also look funny,” Forlee told Cult of Mac. “While I was doing the research, I was at the point of quitting. I would google search ‘terrible wounds’ and I could only handle like five minutes at a time.”

Why Steve Jobs replaced the Mac’s  key with ⌘

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Graphic designer Susan Kare is iconic — literally. The mastermind behind the friendly 32 x 32 and 16 x 16 icons used in the original Mac operating system, Kare’s work has reached more people than almost any other graphic designer on Earth.

Yet the way she stumbled into designing the icons for the Mac operating system was pretty much a lark, and in a recent presentation at the EG conference in California, Kare spoke a little bit about how she stumbled into the job.

It’s a fascinating talk, not just for the details she shares about early Mac operating system development, but also because Kare finally reveals why Apple switched from the Apple symbol to the Command key.

Get Over $3000 Worth Of Assets With The Valentine’s Day Designer Bundle [Deals]

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Cult of Mac Deals has put together another astounding offer – a package deal that features over $3000 worth of vector illustrations, Photoshop brushes, t-shirt designs, text styles and more. And you can get this bundle – dubbed The Valentine’s Day Designer Bundle in honor of the upcoming holiday – for just $39 for a limited time.

Get Over 9 Hours Of WordPress Training And Build Your Dream Website [Deals]

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WordPress is a powerful tool that’ll give you the opportunity to unleash the power of the web and now with this concrete and easy-to-follow course you’ll be able to learn everything you need to know to get started. Have an idea that you’d like to take to the web? Want to build a website for someone? Look no further, because Cult of Mac Deals has got you covered with this offer.

In this multi-part WordPress training course from InfiniteSkills, you’ll learn everything you need to know to create a completely custom site from the ground up with no experience needed for just $39 – a savings of 60%!

Hone Your Editing Skills With Photoshop Video Academy [Deals]

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Designers, photographers, artists, budding photoshop gurus – be honest with yourself, could your Photoshop, Lightroom, or Illustrator skills use some retouching? Maybe you just want to add a couple new tricks to your editor’s arsenal or bolster your portfolio.

No matter the reasoning, Photoshop Video Academy is the place to do it, and right now Cult of Mac Deals is offering you a one-year membership to the site for only $49 – 75% off the regular price – and this course is chock-full of easy-to-follow high-definition video tutorials for Photoshop, Lightroom, and Illustrator.

Last Day! The iRest: The Perfect Stand For Your iPad #BlackFriday [Deals]

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Every once in a while, an insanely great offer comes around that can’t be missed and this happens to be one of them. The iRest lets you view your iPad’s screen in comfort with excellent stability.

For only $39.99 you’ll get one of the most flawless iPad accessories ever created. This 2011 Macworld Best of Show winner was designed to be used not just at your desk or on a table, but also on your lap while kicking back on the sofa or laying in bed.

Take Your Design Game To A New Level With The Vector Collection Bundle [Deals]

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Are you a designer? New to the trade or simply wanting to add more creative juice to your arsenal?

We’ve got over 4,400 high-quality vector graphics on tap – plus an extra 100 stock photos – so if you’ve been hunting for some creative juices you’ve come to the right place. With this Cult of Mac Deals offer you’ll be able to create more eye-catching graphics and bring your design game to a whole new level.

We understand being a designer can be tough especially when you have a lack of resources and is why we’re excited to bring you The Vector Collection Bundle for just $49!

If Microsoft Redesigned Apple’s Logo [Image]

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Microsoft recently redesigned its company logo for the first time in 25 years. The design is dead simple: four boxes in a square that pays homage to the original logo.

What would it look like if Microsoft redesigned Apple’s logo? The above concept comes from L8. Logos have also been made for brands like Starbucks, Firefox, Twitter, Pepsi, and Google.

I think it’s safe to say that Apple’s own logo wins.

Source: L8

Thanks: Andrew

Jumsoft’s New Clipart Package For iWork And iBooks Author Is Great For Students And Small Businesses

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Jumsoft's latest clipart and pattern pack delivers plenty of impact.
Jumsoft's latest clipart and pattern pack delivers plenty of impact.

App and template designer Jumsoft announced a new collection of images and patterns for Apple’s iWork suite. The new package, known as Elements for iWork, is the company’s eleventh collection of professionally designed images, templates and stationary designed to help businesses, students, and consumers create stunning documents and projects using a range of Mac apps.

Sampler – See What Your Fonts Will Look Like Before Committing Them To A Design [OS X Tips]

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A veritable waterfall of letters and numbers.

Doing any design work? Creating an office newsletter, classroom report, or client brochure? Chances are you’ll be needing some fonts. The Mac may have ushered in the era of desktop publishing many moons ago, but we’re still at the mercy of our own (or our clients’) good taste or lack thereof.

If you’re trying to decide between different fonts for a particular project, you might want to print out a font sampler, which contains all the different fonts you are looking at in a nice, easily shared format. Font Book, the app that handles fonts on your Mac, can do this for you easily, at least in Mac OS X 10.7.3. Here’s how to make that happen.

Design Like A Pro With The Graphic Design Studio Combo [Last Chance]

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If you’re looknig to level up your design skills, then the latest Cult of Mac Deals offer is “designed” just for you!

With the Graphic Design Studio Combo you can quickly create professional-looking graphics – and have over 6,000 fonts at your disposal. You’ll get the ultimate collection of over 6,200 OpenType fonts with the FontPack Pro Collection and quickly create professional-looking graphics with this Graphic Design Studio. These two downloadable products will make any designers life easier by giving you the ability to have all your font needs in one place along with granting you the wizardry to create professional graphics in a fun and fast way. And you’ll get both products in this deal at far less than their usual $340 price tag. With Cult of Mac Deals you can get everything for just $69!

Last Chance To Get The Spring Creative Bundle [Deals]

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If you’ve ever wanted an amazing library that will help you take your designs to the next level, Cult of Mac Deals has an incredible offer — an offer that’s almost all wrapped up!

This incredible bundle of over 90 different packs of resources, including textures, icons, vectors, brushes and more. It is an invaluable resource for any designers’ toolkit. Impress yourself, your clients, and design better with The Spring Creative Bundle for only $49!

Enhance Your Designs With The Spring Creative Bundle [Deals]

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If you’ve ever wanted an amazing library that will help you take your designs to the next level, Cult of Mac Deals has an incredible offer for you.

This incredible bundle of over 90 different packs of resources, including textures, icons, vectors, brushes and more. It is an invaluable resource for any designers’ toolkit. Impress yourself, your clients, and design better with The Spring Creative Bundle – which is available for a very limited time you can stack up on these digital tools for only $49!

Last Chance To Grab The Creative Design Bundle [Deals]

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Time is running out on this Cult of Mac Deals offer — and it’s one that will allow your creativity to go wild!

The Creative Design Bundle contains over 1000 icons, vector elements, Photoshop templates, an essential designer’s strategy guide and a lot of useful bonus files for just pennies on the dollar! With a total download size of 1.4GB, you’ll get all of this bundled together at an insane price – just $49! The items in this bundle are valued at over $1,000 – meaning you get a whopping 95% off!

Unleash Your Creativity With The Creative Design Bundle [Deals]

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This is one big deal from Cult of Mac Deals that will allow your creativity to go wild! Well, if you’re a designer, this one’s for you!

The Creative Design Bundle contains over 1000 icons, vector elements, Photoshop templates, an essential designer’s strategy guide and a lot of useful bonus files for just pennies on the dollar! With a total download size of 1.4GB, you’ll get all of this bundled together at an insane price – just $49! The items in this bundle are valued at over $1,000 – meaning you get a whopping 95% off!

This Ultimate Designer Toolkit Provides Everything For Your Graphic Design Needs [Deals]

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Are you just now coming out of your holidays hibernation and venturing back into the real world? Some of us are still struggling with that too, so we wanted to remind you guys about our Ultimate Designer Toolkit bundle that will be expiring in less than 16 hours. Head over to Deals.CultofMac.com to get it before it’s gone.

If you’re a creative looking to upgrade your ammo, we’ve found just the designer toolkit for you. For just a moment, try to imagine the capabilities you as a designer will have with over 60,000 premium design resources! Yeah, it gives us the butterflies too. Adding something like this to your designer quiver will just make you that much more dangerous out there in the designer world.

Think about the capabilities… we’re talking 27,000 Photoshop Gradients, 18,000 Photoshop Layer Styles, 2,986 Photoshop Brushes, 1,290 High Resolution Textures, 1,129 Vector Elements, 1,454Vector Illustrations, 1,105 Adobe Add-ons, 815 Photoshop patterns, 340 Seamless Vectors, and thousands of other cool designer toys all for only $49.

Gorgeous Steve Jobs Collage is Beautifully Cult-Like

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Hey, remember the late 1990s? It was a heady time of rap-rock records, resurgent sci-fi epics, and, most importantly, the photo mosaic, an art form where computer artists take hundreds of tiny images and make a vaguely unsettling and blurry bigger picture.

Now we can take a trip back courtesy of Charis Tevis, a graphic artist commissioned by Fortune for its recent cover story on the iCEO. The rad image (click through to see it in all its glory) basically builds Steve Jobs out of the full portfolio of Apple products.

He’s got a lot of others on his Flickr account, including another image of Steve and one of Barack Obama.

Charis Tevis via Gizmodo