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2010-08-13 06:32:01

(TrendHunter.com) ‘Pop-Tarts World’ has offi­cially opened in New York City’s Time Square. This store cel­e­brates all things Pop-Tarts, with a vari­ety of Pop-Tart-themed activ­i­ties and shows

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Break­fast Pas­try Flag­ship Stores — ‘Pop-Tarts World’ Offi­cially Opens Up Shop in Times Square (GALLERY)

2010-08-13 06:18:01

(TrendHunter.com) There yet another fash­ion col­lab­o­ra­tion hit­ting stores this fall and it’s the awe­some Tucker for Tar­get Fall 2010 col­lec­tion. This afford­able line will fea­ture designer Gaby Basora’s sig­na­ture billowy…

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Bil­lowy Fash­ion Col­lab­o­ra­tions — The Tucker for Tar­get Col­lec­tion Hits Stores This Fall (GALLERY)

2010-08-13 06:07:02

(TrendHunter.com) Seems like the U.S.

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Foliage Pen­e­trat­ing Robo­copters — The FORESTER Radar Sys­tem Lets Boe­ing A160t See Through Trees

2010-08-13 05:55:02

(TrendHunter.com) The Dog Towel Treat may be the tamest dog and the cutest towel you will ever own. These wash cloths are art­fully folded into dogs and make per­fect dec­o­ra­tions for any bath­room. I never thought that a…

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Faux Ani­mal Tow­els — The Dog Towel Treat is the Per­fect Wash Cloth for Pet Lovers (GALLERY)

2010-08-13 05:45:01

(TrendHunter.com) I’ve been told that sum­mer is the prime time for a cold glass of beer, so if you’re inter­ested in this Clas­sic Beer Glass Con­nois­seur col­lec­tion, you bet­ter act fast. Bring the drink­ing expe­ri­ence home…

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Classy Pint Glass­ware — The Clas­sic Beer Glass Con­nois­seur Col­lec­tion Brings Class to Drinking

2010-08-13 05:34:01

(TrendHunter.com) If you’re a fan of famous archi­tec­ture, worldly land­marks and build­ing blocks, then the LEGO Tower Bridge is the per­fect piece for you. Mim­ic­k­ing the breath­tak­ing Lon­don Bridge, this is a mas­sive LEGO…

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Build­ing Block Land­marks — The LEGO Tower Bridge is Made Up of 4,287 LEGO Pieces (GALLERY)

2010-08-13 05:20:01

(TrendHunter.com) Per­fect for the lit­tle fairy princess or chest-bumping Tarzan-wannabe, the Droog Design Swing is made to make a child’s imag­i­na­tion run wild. Of course, I’m sure that more than a few adults would find…

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Secret Gar­den Swings — The Droog Design Swing by Mar­cel Wan­ders is Whim­si­cally Pretty

2010-08-13 05:08:02

(TrendHunter.com) Mole­sk­ines may be one of the more cov­eted note­books out there, but I’m sure you’ll do just as well with one of these Ecosys­tem Note­books. Not only do they resem­ble the min­i­mal­is­tic Mole­sk­ine books, they…

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Vibrant Eco-Friendly Work­books — The Ecosys­tem Note­books House 100% Recy­cled Paper (GALLERY)

2010-08-13 04:58:01

(TrendHunter.com) When I look upon Michael Kenna’s ‘Power Sta­tion’ series, words like “majes­tic,” “epic” and “pow­er­ful” come to mind. Tak­ing stark snap­shots of power plants around the world, this British photographer’s…

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Power Plant Pho­tog­ra­phy — Michael Kenna Cap­tures ‘Power Sta­tions’ from Around the World (GALLERY)

2010-08-13 04:44:01

(TrendHunter.com) There’s some­thing very illu­mi­nat­ing about Ivan Navarro’s art pieces — and I’m not just refer­ring to the fact that they phys­i­cally glow. His con­tem­po­rary light instal­la­tions trans­forms every­day objects…

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Flu­o­res­cent Stick Fig­ures — Ivan Navarro Trans­forms Every­day Objects into Works of Art (GALLERY)

2010-08-13 04:33:01

(TrendHunter.com) ‘Mer­maids’ from Alexey Novikov is a beau­ti­ful spread of images fea­tur­ing a model with hid­den feet.

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Foot­less Fash­ion Spreads — ‘Mer­maids’ from Alexey Novikov Fea­tures a Model with Hid­den Feet (GALLERY)

2010-08-13 04:25:16

32 design con­tests & com­pe­ti­tions EDITOR’S PICKS • MAX­topia T-shirt Design Con­test — 29 August 2010 Mother nature meets moth­er­board in this amaz­ing new chal­lenge brought to us by the won­der­ful folks at Adobe. Your chal­lenge is to design an awe­some tee inspired by MAX­topia: the cel­e­bra­tion of nature + tech­nol­ogy! Win­ner gets Adobe CS5 Design Pre­mium, Thread­less voucher for $500, and $2K

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The Best Design Com­pe­ti­tion List on the Inter­net — Sep­tem­ber Edition

2010-08-13 04:21:02

(TrendHunter.com) The Air Force 1 Anatomy Of An Urban Leg­end film will be a fea­ture length movie that will tell the story of this famous shoe. From its intro­duc­tion on the bas­ket­ball court in the 80s to how it became the…

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Leg­endary Shoe Flicks — The Air Force 1 Anatomy Of An Urban Leg­end Film Tells The Shoe’s His­tory (VIDEO)

2010-08-13 04:10:02

(TrendHunter.com) These stun­ning shots in the ‘Paraty’ photo album prob­a­bly do not give the city in Rio de Janeiro jus­tice, but they look pretty incred­i­ble regard­less. The pho­tos were taken by Fer Araujo and fea­ture the…

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Brazil­ian City Pho­to­shoots — The ‘Paraty’ Photo Album Fea­tures Beau­ti­ful Shots of Rio de Janeiro (GALLERY)

2010-08-13 04:00:02

(TrendHunter.com) The Dior Chiffre Rouge T01 Watch cleans up the look of the reg­u­lar GMT. The watch keeps it min­i­mal with a sim­ple dial that fea­tures a unique eight-timezone sub-dial that is kept to the side.

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Min­i­mal­ist Minute Coun­ters — The Dior Chiffre Rouge T01 Watch Cleans Up Your Look

2010-08-13 03:54:49

I will be post­ing some fresh free fonts every Fri­day, yes I know it’s awe­some. I will look for­ward to bring a lot of great fonts that will sure help you improve your typog­ra­phy work

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Fri­day Fresh Free Fonts #61

2010-08-13 03:49:01

(TrendHunter.com) The vanilla ‘Stormtroop­si­cle’ t-shirt. Who knew a Stormtrooper can be made into a pop­si­cle? Credit for this design goes to Yan­mos; it is a golden idea for geeks everywhere.

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Melt­ing Nerdy Tees — The Vanilla ‘Stormtroop­si­cle’ T-Shirt is Fit­ting for Sum­mer (GALLERY)

2010-08-13 02:10:15

Inspired by the Flint­stones car­toons, this stun­ning house was con­structed between two giant stones on the hill­side of Fafe moun­tains in Por­tu­gal. Because of its unusual design, the house attracts many tourists from all over the world. [pho­tos by Feli­ciano Guimaraes, via]

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Stone House in Portugal

2010-08-13 01:44:02

(TrendHunter.com) We live in a world that is depen­dent upon tech­nol­ogy, and even art can be dig­i­tal­ized to bring more life into it.

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Cre­ative Illu­sion Por­traits — Dan Esco­bar Con­structs Amaz­ing Dig­i­tal Art (GALLERY)

2010-08-13 01:32:02

(TrendHunter.com) These ‘Leaf-it Book­mark Memos’ can act as a book­mark or a notepad for your convenience.

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Leafy Notepads — These Leaf-It Book­mark Memos are Note­wor­thy Page Reminders (GALLERY)

2010-08-13 01:19:01

(TrendHunter.com) Show­cas­ing the work of emerg­ing Amer­i­can artists, the Fran­co­nia Sculp­ture Farm is rid­dled with amaz­ing, unique art­work. A theme park and play­ground for the more cul­tured folk, it con­stantly evolves as…

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Art-Riddled Parks — The Fran­co­nia Sculp­ture Farm Fos­ters a Love of Cre­ativ­ity (GALLERY)

2010-08-13 01:07:02

(TrendHunter.com) The future of pro­fes­sional foot­ball may lie in microchipped foot­balls. The NFL is cur­rently talk­ing with Ger­man com­pany Cairos Tech­nolo­gies about imple­ment­ing ball-tracking advance­ments into the league.…

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Com­put­er­ized Game Calls — The NFL is Con­sid­er­ing Switch­ing to Microchipped Footballs

2010-08-13 00:57:02

(TrendHunter.com) If a smile is con­ta­gious, I won­der if the ‘Feel-O-Meter’ will inspire and encour­age indi­vid­u­als to uplift their mood. Cur­rently dis­played in Lin­dau, Ger­many, artist Julius von Bis­marck has installed a…

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Mood-Reading Light­houses — The ‘Feel-O-Meter’ Shows the Emo­tions of Ger­man Res­i­dents (GALLERY)

2010-08-13 00:45:02

(TrendHunter.com) The Sharpie Liq­uid Pen­cil has got­ten me offi­cially excited for the upcom­ing school year. This pen­cil uses liq­uid graphite as ink

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Semi-Permanent Pens — The Sharpie Liq­uid Pen­cil Can Be Erased for Up to Three Days

2010-08-13 00:35:02

(TrendHunter.com) These ‘Con­verse Skate­board­ing Star Player Mid’ kicks are a Kenny Ander­son cus­tom color way, made for those who are ready to rock out in style. The shoe fea­tures the clas­sic Chucks aes­thetic with a navy…

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Blue Suede Skater Shoes — The ‘Con­verse Skate­board­ing Star Player Mid’ Kicks are Rocker Rad

2010-08-13 00:11:01

(TrendHunter.com) The great archi­tec­tural design of the pyra­mids is now man­i­fested in the ‘Cheap Mon­day Office’ by Ugly­cute. The cool thing about this office is the fact that the whole space is cov­ered in gray car­pet with…

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Low-Budget Pyra­mid Offices — The ‘Cheap Mon­day Office’ by Ugly­cute is Space-Conscious (GALLERY)

2010-08-12 23:59:02

(TrendHunter.com) The JR EAST rail­way com­pany of Japan has placed an intel­li­gent vend­ing machine in one of its Tokyo sta­tions that detects a customer’s sex and age. With that infor­ma­tion the machine rec­om­mends drinks suitable…

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Smarty Pants Vend­ing Tech — The Intel­li­gent Vend­ing Machine Puts Knowl­edge to Good Use

2010-08-12 23:47:01

(TrendHunter.com) The Steam­punk DJ Set is the per­fect music player for fist-pumping art aficionados.

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Upcy­cled Vic­to­rian Music Mak­ers — The Steam­punk DJ Set Will Have You Par­ty­ing Like It’s 1899 (GALLERY)

2010-08-12 23:20:02

(TrendHunter.com) These Jonathan Adler Dog Beds are items your pup would want you to spend on. Made of hand-loomed llama wool, your dog will feel super com­fort­able on these soft pil­lows. Your dog will love these bone-printed…

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Patri­otic Puppy Pads — These Jonathan Adler Dog Beds Quirky and Fun

2010-08-12 23:06:54

made in Italy The new Vec­to­re­al­ism site is live! You can now have your designs made in Milan by access­ing Vec­to­re­al­ism directly. The site is avail­able in Ital­ian and Eng­lish, and prices are listed in Euros. Pow­ered by Ponoko’s online mak­ing sys­tem , Vec­to­re­al­ism pro­vides fast, acces­si­ble, and user friendly laser cut­ting and engrav­ing services

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Vec­to­re­al­ism Dig­i­tal Fab­ri­ca­tion Facil­ity in Italy

2010-08-12 23:05:01

(TrendHunter.com) The ‘Scrubadub Sub’ is a col­lec­tion of five dif­fer­ent bath prod­ucts that are cre­atively designed for chil­dren. The char­ac­ters’ names embraces allit­er­a­tion, includ­ing ‘Willy the Whale,’ ‘Casey the Crab,’…

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Sub­ma­rine Bathing Toys — Your Kid Will Have Fun with the ‘Scrubadub Sub’ (GALLERY)

2010-08-12 22:53:01

(TrendHunter.com) Save your wet cell phone from a watery grave with the Dryer Box. The Dryer Box is a mys­te­ri­ous piece of tech­nol­ogy from JMC Risk Solu­tions that can report­edly reverse the effects of water dam­age on a phone.…

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Cell Phone Dry­ers — The Dryer Box Sal­vages Soaked Cellulars

2010-08-12 22:39:02

(TrendHunter.com) The new ‘Brother and Sis­ter’ ad for Google is sur­pris­ingly cute and gen­er­ally accu­rate. The ad fea­tures a brother and sis­ter, both on the Google search engine, in attempt to find out cer­tain details with…

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Sib­ling Rivalry Search Engines — The ‘Brother and Sis­ter’ Ad for Google is Adorable (VIDEO)

2010-08-12 22:27:02

(TrendHunter.com) Express your love for all things sticky and sweet with these Cin­na­mon Bun Ear­rings. These ear­rings are hand­made and look exactly like everyone’s favorite break­fast treat.

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Cinnabon Ear Studs — These Cin­na­mon Bun Ear­rings are a Tasty Treat for Your Ears (GALLERY)

2010-08-12 22:16:02

(TrendHunter.com) The Quiznos ‘Human Sand­wich’ ad is a hilar­i­ous exam­ple of how Quiznos has ‘more meat’ than its com­pet­ing sand­wich coun­ter­part Sub­way. Using human beings as a rep­re­sen­ta­tion of their meaty sandwiches,…

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Hilar­i­ous Sand­wich Com­par­isons — The Quiznos ‘Human Sand­wich’ Ad Has More Meat Than Sub­way (GALLERY)

2010-08-12 22:06:02

(TrendHunter.com) Film­maker Bran­don Bloch cre­ated this hilar­i­ous video to com­pare the Canon 7D SLR cam­era vs. Bar­bie Video Girl. The video is a spoof of the ‘Take Zero Pro­duc­tions’ video com­par­i­son between a Canon 7D and…

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Ironic Cam­era Com­par­isons — The ‘Canon 7D SLR Cam­era Vs.Barbie Video Girl’ Spoof (VIDEO)

2010-08-12 22:00:31

Sus­pended like mod­ern chan­de­liers, these multi-sized light­ing designs com­bine the tech­nol­ogy of a dig­i­tal pho­to­graph frame with the multi-directional light sup­plied by a more typ­i­cal fix­ture. The result: an ele­gant mix of dynamic mem­o­ries and use­ful lights. The small size fea­tures two cir­cles com­posed of six frames, each stor­ing a giga­byte of pho­to­graphic (or other image) mate­r­ial that can be dis­played as a sta­tic series of rotat­ing set of visuals.

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High-Tech Hybrid: Hang­ing Lights + Dig­i­tal Photo Frames

2010-08-12 21:58:34

by Aaron Britt Whether wrought from molded alu­minum or the lat­est techno-mesh, few seats work harder than the sturdy desk chair. We worked a few over.

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Dwell Reports » Up to the Task

2010-08-12 21:54:02

(TrendHunter.com) The new Katz menu design was specif­i­cally made to cap­ture the eyes of adults and childtren alike. I mean with all the bright col­ors in the back­ground, who wouldn’t notice the packaging

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Adorable Pet Food Pack­ag­ing — The Katz Menu Fea­tures Dif­fer­ent Types of Cats (GALLERY)

2010-08-12 21:29:02

(TrendHunter.com) The LED Light Bulb Card is a con­ve­nient, small and cute card to have. Brought to you by Strapya World, this card is an eighth of an inch thick and made of tough yet flex­i­ble plas­tic. Pro­vid­ing a large…

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Con­ve­nient DIY Light­ing — The LED Light Bulb Card will Light up your Day

2010-08-12 21:18:01

(TrendHunter.com) ‘The New New Look’ in Harper’s Bazaar UK Sep­tem­ber 2010 is con­ser­v­a­tive cool with long skirts and blaz­ers. The spread shows model Natalia Cha­ba­nenko look­ing school girl-like sweet as pho­tographed by Serge…

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Lengthy Skirt Styles — ‘The New New Look’ in Harper’s Bazaar UK Sep­tem­ber 2010 is Chic (GALLERY)

2010-08-12 21:11:30

“Give Water has launched new pack­ag­ing that pushes the product’s char­i­ta­ble mis­sion to the forefront.

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Before & After: Give Water

2010-08-12 21:10:05

This has got to be the weird­est ocean­go­ing ves­sel I’ve ever seen: The FLIP (Float­ing Instru­ment Plat­form) was a ship appar­ently built in 1962 as a research plat­form. After being towed to its tar­get site in a hor­i­zon­tal, nor­mal ship posi­tion, bal­last tanks begin tak­ing on water–and the ship piv­ots 90 degrees, send­ing the bow some 300 feet below the sur­face, while the tail end rides above the waves, bristling with cranes pre­sum­ably used to lower equip­ment. Why the pivot

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Crazy FLIP ship designed to change its orientation–from hor­i­zon­tal to vertical

2010-08-12 21:08:01

(TrendHunter.com) Notion Design has come up with a con­cep­tual soft­ware that could make watch­ing tele­vi­sion an inter­ac­tive expe­ri­ence. The MetaMir­ror would mix live tele­vi­sion and aug­mented real­ity to pro­vide a view­ing experience…

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Aug­mented Real­ity Tele­vi­sion Apps — The Metamir­ror Takes TV to the Next Level (GALLERY)

2010-08-12 20:58:33

This post is part of our daily series of posts show­ing the most inspir­ing images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writ­ers and users. If you want to par­tic­i­pate and share your graphic design inspi­ra­tion, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it, also use “Daily Inspi­ra­tion” in the sub­ject, and don’t for­get to send your Abduzeedo user­name; or via Twit­ter send­ing to http://twitter.com/abduzeedo If pos­si­ble use the HTML code: Do you want to see all images from all Daily Inspi­ra­tions? Check out http://daily.abduzeedo.com Ander­son Tomazi Best­Book­marks ben­dro­drigez Bobby Moon Chat­Noir ciR-e Color.

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Daily Inspi­ra­tion #586

2010-08-12 20:58:01

(TrendHunter.com) The Hotel Arena in Ams­ter­dam was recently vis­ited by decor8 writer Holly Becker and her room was serene and sim­plis­tic. The mod­ern room the writer stayed in fea­ture incred­i­ble large win­dows and white walls…

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Serene Hotel Stays — Hotel Arena in Ams­ter­dam has Sim­ply Stun­ning Rooms (GALLERY)

2010-08-12 20:50:16

“The assign­ment was to design the brand­ing and pack­age for a chal­leng­ing con­sumer prod­uct. I chose toi­let paper as a major­ity of con­sumers includ­ing myself strug­gle most often to find the details of the thickness/quality on the prod­uct pack­age. My research showed me that most exist­ing pack­ages focus on the brand name, soft col­ors and com­fort­ing graph­ics, thereby mak­ing it dif­fi­cult for the onlooker to get impor­tant details regard­ing the prod­uct from a distance.”

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Stu­dent Spot­light: Multiply

2010-08-12 20:43:02

(TrendHunter.com) The ‘Beauty’ Vogue Italia August 2010 spread embraces the dark and mys­te­ri­ous side of punk. The shoot even looks like it’s from an under­ground bar where you can let loose on a Sat­ur­day night. Models…

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Tat­tooed Punk Princesses — The Vogue Italia August 2010 Spred is All About Dark Makeup (GALLERY)

2010-08-12 20:31:01

(TrendHunter.com) The E Ink Ruler from Yan-Ting Chen is a must-have for any handyman.

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Met­ric Con­ver­sion Tape Mea­sures — The E Ink Ruler Eas­ily Con­verts Inches to Cen­time­ters (GALLERY)

2010-08-12 20:18:02

(TrendHunter.com) Ani­mal pho­to­shoots can be pretty adorable — espe­cially when they fea­ture ani­mals that are hard to cap­ture and incred­i­bly adorable. These ani­mal pho­to­shoot fea­tures range from cutesy minia­ture ani­mal photos…

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13 Adorable Ani­mal Pho­to­shoots — From Inti­mate Pet Pho­tog­ra­phy to Wild Ani­mal Por­traits (CLUSTER)