Bravo Mr. Sam Brown

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I've been a big fan of Sam Brown's beautiful drawings at Exploding Dog for a long time. If you haven't visited before, you must be the last person on the internet and you should head over there right now.

However, almost as impressive as his drawings is Sam's prolific and steady additions to the collection. I draw most of silverorange's dinky slices of the month, so I can somewhat attest to the difficulty in maintaining momentum when regularly drawing for the web. It's difficult to keep up a regular contribution and to come up with fresh creative ideas on a regular basis. Congratulations to Sam for his tenacity as well as his ability.

"I'm Listening to Sad Songs" by Sam Brown

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Mella -

http://www.rudeweb.com/mike

Sam Brown's stuff is great.
His process of drawing images based on submitted non-contextual statements reminds me of Harris Burdick.
I suspect he's a fan.

Jenya -

I found out about explodingdog.com a few days ago and I look at it constantly now. Sam Brown just has some amazing work! And so much too! I could spend a lifetime looking at what he's done. It;s even inspired me to do a few paintings using similar stick figures. I really hope this guy makes it big time.

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I'm a web designer living in San Francisco, California. I sometimes get the chance to present lectures and workshops at conferences around the world, where I speak about iterative design strategies, designing for large online communities, and more broadly about interface design for web applications. I've posted many of the slides from past presentations I've done on Slideshare.

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