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Gorgeous Examples of Floral Typography

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Floral typography is the technique that combines typography, calligraphy and lettering to create dynamic, “flourishing” designs. With the help of floral elements you can create very tempting and vivid artworks in which the typography seems to be shaped by plants and flowers. In this way you can convey your message in a very artistic way. In fact, various floral ornaments – which are the essential component of floral typography – can make the design stand out and help the artist to create inspiring, refreshing and thought-provoking pieces of art.

Below you’ll find a beautiful collection of floral typography and also some outstanding tutorials that will help you to master the technique or at least get some understanding of how this technique can be used. Please feel free to explore the further works of the artists presented below as well.

Floral Typography Examples

Anybody Seen my Baby

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BlackOut

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Ginger Monkey Design

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Siscott

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White

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Gig Poster

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Spring

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Love

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Deja VU

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Keep Reno Green

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Glamour

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Logan

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Soft Type

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Narani

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My Fake Cover

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Slow progress…

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The Mask of Sorrow

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For Right Wrong

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For Right Wrong

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The Good Die Young

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A New Leaf

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Summer Exhibition

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Floral Love

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Black and white

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Nokia

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Excellence

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Inspire

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D+G Vector and Drawing

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Decogrunge Type Treatment

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Designers don’t commit crimes

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A1 paper cut illustration

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Using mixed media

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Christmas present – SiScott style

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Tipo 04

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MT Ornamental Type Design

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Narani

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Word

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Funkrush

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i Love Art

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Dont Panic

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Leo Burnej

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Hide and Seek

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Yulia Brodskaya

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Chaz Maviyane-Davies

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sumeco

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Debra Bishop

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Hello

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Floral Alphabets

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Trust

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Type Art

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Graphic Design Everywhere

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Play

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Esquire

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Silk

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I love you

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Chanel 4 25th Anniversary Book

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Type

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Floral Typography Tutorials

Create a 3D Flowery Text Effect

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Stylish Floral Typography

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Create an Ancient Typography with Dry Soil Texture and Floral Brushset in Photoshop

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Create a Spectacular Grass Text Effect in Photoshop

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Super Cool Frilly Bits Typography

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Old School Type – Line Gradients

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Dynamic Recessed Watercolor Typography in Photoshop

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How to Create a Richly Ornate Typographic Illustration

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Aquil Akhter is doing his job as a web graphic designer and working in this field since 8 years. He also runs the blog webdesigncore.com, which focuses on free web resources and inspiration especially for designers and developers.

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  1. 1
    XHTML Candy
    May 23rd, 2009 11:23 am

    Great list of typography. just awesome.

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    Jagat
    May 23rd, 2009 11:25 am

    Thanks a lot. Nice Collection.

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    dv
    May 23rd, 2009 11:52 am

    great list, it’s good that you guys keep the standards up for selecting stuff others will spend time viewing, thanks

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    Floris Fiedeldij Dop
    May 23rd, 2009 12:12 pm

    Sigh, now I will spend another week in ps/cs4 forgetting about the world.

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    Shazy
    May 23rd, 2009 12:14 pm

    I think photos has gone slightly inside from right hand side? i am right? beautiful collection of typography

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    Ida Aalen / @idaAa
    May 23rd, 2009 12:48 pm

    This isn’t new, its from the 1750s!

    Hehe, joking aside, it really reminds me of “Rosemaling” (lit. ‘rose painting’):

    From the all-mighty Wikipedia:

    “a form of decorative flower painting that originated in the low-land areas of eastern Norway around 1750, when Baroque, Rengeny and Rococo, artistic styles of the upper class, were introduced into Norway’s rural culture.”

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemaling

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    maryandmac
    May 23rd, 2009 1:01 pm

    beautiful work! thanks for sharing.

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    Jonathan
    May 23rd, 2009 1:09 pm

    Some nice stuff here, although a few do look very similar to one another and some are just not readable. I particularly like the ones with a 3D shadow effect.

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    Nerisson
    May 23rd, 2009 1:25 pm

    W O N D E R F U L L !

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    Tschai
    May 23rd, 2009 1:28 pm

    fan-tas-tic!

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    ryan
    May 23rd, 2009 2:54 pm

    looks like Sy Scott inspired a trend! he did many of the pieces in there, didn’t he? I know Summer Exhibition is his too.

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    Chris Berry
    May 23rd, 2009 3:14 pm

    Some are beautiful to behold, but fail completely at communicating a message since they are totally illegible.

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    Drew R
    May 23rd, 2009 5:01 pm

    Beautiful typography! Fav is the “black out” towards the top. Great collection of typography.

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    xKelevra
    May 23rd, 2009 5:07 pm

    I must be the only one who was bored at the half way point viewing these. They all look the same, and don’t really excite, unless you love looking at the same floral patterns over and over.

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    Abner
    May 23rd, 2009 6:02 pm

    I love Yulia Brodskaya’s work!

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    Average Joe
    May 23rd, 2009 6:18 pm

    I think Tord Boontje started (reinvented) this technique before Sy Scott, then it was used in the demoscene and now everywhere. Amazing stuff, but most of them are really similar.

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    Fardan
    May 23rd, 2009 10:47 pm

    awesome!

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    logicalnot
    May 23rd, 2009 10:55 pm

    Agree with nº14. This selection is coming 2 years too late.
    Time to move on folks.

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    Ozy
    May 24th, 2009 1:16 am

    Drop the floraluse guys, its a dead trend :)

    Wireless and nature are still nicely done.
    But floral,, nah

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    Kevin
    May 24th, 2009 3:18 am

    Simply amazing! Wow!

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    macias
    May 24th, 2009 4:18 am

    wow – beautiful !

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    Harald Schipper
    May 24th, 2009 4:39 am

    Amazing collection! Really love.. wel.. all of them I guess. Especially those by Yulia Brodskaya.

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    domonoky
    May 24th, 2009 4:58 am

    Very nice.

    But many of this show the common problem of overdoing it. If you add to much to the text, it becomes unreadable, and the whole point is lost.

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    Berong
    May 24th, 2009 6:13 am

    WoW!
    no matter what media is behind all these.
    it’s stunning.

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    Ferinannnd
    May 24th, 2009 7:10 am

    Да, есть над чем задуматься. Спасибо!

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    Listen Up!
    May 24th, 2009 7:48 am

    Thoroughly enjoyable post. Fantastic, inspiring collection! Kudos, Aquil Akhter!

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    Ally E.
    May 24th, 2009 7:50 am

    amazing. so inspirational. now I wan t to go and make my own floral typo.

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    Tsesci
    May 24th, 2009 8:28 am

    nice

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    Arsi
    May 24th, 2009 10:41 am

    amazing work

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    iphigenia3
    May 24th, 2009 10:55 am

    This reminds me a lot of the calligraphy examples in the Speedball handbook when buying pen points and supplies in my distant youth!

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    Peo
    May 24th, 2009 1:18 pm

    I belive it is Leo Burnett not Leo Burnej. Nice list btw.

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    Natalia
    May 24th, 2009 2:17 pm

    WOW!!! Amazing work!!

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    Michel
    May 24th, 2009 2:40 pm

    Great work…beautifull fonts

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    Kate Vickers
    May 24th, 2009 4:53 pm

    So beautiful! An inspiration… I’m off to do some of my own design now. ;-)

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    DebbyBruck
    May 24th, 2009 5:49 pm

    I quick skim through and the one that stands out for me is the twillery. Curled paper design.

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    Omer Yaqub
    May 24th, 2009 8:02 pm

    I am speechless……..

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    grasya
    May 24th, 2009 9:10 pm

    I envy :c

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    speedcu
    May 24th, 2009 11:20 pm

    wow! breathtaking stuff!!!! amazing

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    Quakeulf >:3
    May 24th, 2009 11:57 pm

    I feel the neo-hippies glee and drool over this. Oh look, there’s even a peace-sign thrown in there! Love and peace man, love and peace. B3

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    geir
    May 25th, 2009 5:25 am

    it´s Si Scott, not Sy Scott.
    Look at the new stuff that Si Scott is creating, i think it is way better than his old stuff and he add images of animals also.

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    Kindle
    May 25th, 2009 6:44 am

    One of the best posts ever.

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    joeth
    May 25th, 2009 10:55 am

    so 2008

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    rith
    May 25th, 2009 11:46 am

    very beautiful and inspiring post, I wonder if there are other post on this subject and if there are tutorials to learn a bit…

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    Webdesgin News
    May 25th, 2009 2:29 pm

    Inspiring

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    Aaron Mc Adam
    May 25th, 2009 6:26 pm

    These are beautiful, though I’m not sure about legibility! lol

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    mssusan
    May 25th, 2009 9:46 pm

    WOW! very beautiful… is there any tutorial for those?

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    Jesse
    May 26th, 2009 5:15 am

    Love this article. Great stuff Smashing!

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    Sid Armstrong
    May 26th, 2009 6:04 am

    Thank you for sharing.. Love the “A New Leaf”, and how it just stands with 3D..

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    Cathedral Graphic Design
    May 26th, 2009 11:10 am

    Hey, it may be an old trend, but it sure deserves to live on! I love retro floral, art noveau influences et cetera. This post is nice to look at.

    Yes, many of them are impossible to read… it obscures the “message” if the message is anything but ornament; somehow I think that many of these (and the less legible ones) are showing off illustration skill rather than trying to communicate a message – such as “type art.” Yes, we can see it’s art (although the type side is doubtful) without having to read the obscured words…

    Overall, I enjoyed seeing this post, thanks Smashing!

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    Endless Art
    May 27th, 2009 12:32 am

    Nice work
    dis is one the best work i have c……. the word cant help me at this time

    ………….

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    Nicole
    May 27th, 2009 6:57 am

    This was actually a beautiful collection of typography. They were all great examples of floral typography. Some of them have been circulating for a couple of years, but if they’ve survived that long, they have to have some merit. The one that amazed me the most was “Silk”. I agree with some of the above comments in how the message of some works was obscured by the artwork itself, and were, in fact, overly bearing, but beautiful in the least.

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    Piyush Poddar
    May 27th, 2009 10:04 pm

    Absolutely Jaw Dropping!

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    Adam Alyan
    May 28th, 2009 3:09 am

    Loads of repeated entries!

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    orangetiki
    May 28th, 2009 10:55 am

    Wow florals done right. And I normally HATE florals. DO NOT PUT OUT A TUTORIAL on this. Let the kiddies learn the hard way.

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    sebastienb
    May 28th, 2009 1:14 pm

    Great for inspiration!

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    DMC
    May 29th, 2009 2:00 am

    Yeah, pretty boring stuff mostly, and almost all of these look exactly the same.

    Also, just to be pedantic, most of them aren’t floral either, they’re decorative, and none of them serve any purpose.

    Form has to follow function. If you don’t know that, you shouldn’t be designing anything.

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    Fernanda
    May 29th, 2009 3:28 am

    Nice work, but can I make a suggestion? I think you should link the illustrations to the artist’s website, not to any blog. And many of these illustrations are from Si Scott…

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    Becky
    May 30th, 2009 7:04 am

    I’m in loooove. Fantastic list. I was going to suggest Yulia if you didn’t have her’s, but you do, which makes this list even more awesome. Thanks for sharing!

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    speak
    May 30th, 2009 6:02 pm

    I am a fan of julia brodskaya and her work is exquisite, i love the white materialshe uses in the magic lphoto.

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    Silvana
    June 3rd, 2009 9:17 am

    Buenísimo!

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    Ashely Adams : Sticker Printing
    June 11th, 2009 10:49 pm

    What a marvelous list! It’s simply fascinating. Floral designs always come across as enigmatic and have a certain air of mystery and hypnotic beauty about them. I’m sure that some of these designs took a considerable amount of time and effort to be created. But the end-effect more than justifies the hardship! They are beautiful!

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    Sophie y
    June 16th, 2009 1:45 am

    There all absolutly amazing, im a really big fan of floral patterns and at the moment im completing my gcse art work. I really like how youve done them all!

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    weberica
    July 4th, 2009 12:11 pm

    Fascinating ! I’ve got floral typography on my website as well

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    ivalki
    July 9th, 2009 1:26 am

    Ida Aalen thanks for the Rosemaling info. Neat stuff :)

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    karan
    July 20th, 2009 11:27 am

    awesome work !!! I love typo!!

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    Kaan
    August 12th, 2009 4:43 pm

    I “hate” seeing these kind of post. Why god didnt give me 25% of these people creativity :)

    good post!

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    Manish
    August 12th, 2009 10:55 pm

    really awesome one , excellence creativity, if i can do it , great work of creativity.

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    Olegreze
    September 9th, 2009 12:54 pm

    Основная задача Яндекса — давать ответы на вопросы пользователей!

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