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DEFENDER of the favicon is little pixel game that plays as the browser’s favicon. It’s “a JavaScript remake of Eugene Jarvis’ brilliant arcade game Defender written by Mathieu ‘p01’ Henri and inspired by Scott Schiller’s experiment with generated favicons VU meter. The idea was to push the concept of generated favicons further and pack a thrilling retro shooter in 16x16 pixels using JavaScript, canvas and data: URIs.  Press N to start a game or shoot, and WASD or the arrow keys to move your Defender over the humanoid city. If your browser struggles to update the favicon, press enter to toggle between favicon & canvas display.” [via dalmaer on twitter]

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This is a brilliant combination of pixel art and street art.  The photo was taken by Annamarie on 9th Street west of 2nd Avenue in New York City. If you have information about the artist, please tell us in the comments.

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"The fabric for the Pixel Sofa has been picked up by Danish manufacturer Kvadrat, based off of a concept by Cristian Zuzunaga, a Royal College of Art graduate.” [via chiliCharlie at Stylehive]

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One of my favorite artists and illustrators is Craig Robinson (aka Flip Flop Flyin’), creator of pixelated Minipops, art books, animations and more. Since his early work like Minimoma, he’s had me entranced with his detailed mini-pixel people and his humor.  His new book, Atlas, Schmatlas, is now out with 128 pages “chock-a-block with essential information (fact and fiction), maps, and illustrations about every country in the world.” For some excerpts from the book, check out the site, then go buy at it at your local book shop, or online at Amazon, Barnes & Noble or Borders. Craig has so kindly provided a quick quiz on the side of his site to help you figure out if you’ll like the book. One of the questions is “Do ya wanna funk?” Yes? Well go buy the book then.

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Laughing Squid writes: “In order to organize his huge collection of Star Wars toys, Josh Budich created tiny pixelated illustrations of each toy, that can then be sorted by film, series, year, etc.” Fantastic.

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