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From the Ted Talk by Marian Bantjes: Intricate beauty by design

Unscramble the Blue Letters

Okay, in this presentation, I'm going to be putting the right side of your binars through a fairly serious workout. You're going to see a lot of imagery, and it's not always connected to what I'm talking about, so I need you to kind of split your brains in half and let the iamges flow over one side and listen to me on the other. So I am one of those people with a transformative personal story. Six years ago, after 20 yaers in graphic design and thrpopgayy, I changed the way I was working and the way most graphic designers work to pursue a more personal aorpacph to my work, with only the humble attempt to sipmly make a living doing something that I loved. But something weird happened. I became brlaeizry popular. My current work seems to resoante with people in a way that has so taken me by surprise that I still frequently wonder what in the hell is going on. And I'm slowly coming to understand that the appeal of what I do may be connected to why I do it.

Open Cloze

Okay, in this presentation, I'm going to be putting the right side of your ______ through a fairly serious workout. You're going to see a lot of imagery, and it's not always connected to what I'm talking about, so I need you to kind of split your brains in half and let the ______ flow over one side and listen to me on the other. So I am one of those people with a transformative personal story. Six years ago, after 20 _____ in graphic design and __________, I changed the way I was working and the way most graphic designers work to pursue a more personal ________ to my work, with only the humble attempt to ______ make a living doing something that I loved. But something weird happened. I became _________ popular. My current work seems to ________ with people in a way that has so taken me by surprise that I still frequently wonder what in the hell is going on. And I'm slowly coming to understand that the appeal of what I do may be connected to why I do it.

Solution

  1. approach
  2. years
  3. images
  4. resonate
  5. simply
  6. bizarrely
  7. typography
  8. brains

Original Text

Okay, in this presentation, I'm going to be putting the right side of your brains through a fairly serious workout. You're going to see a lot of imagery, and it's not always connected to what I'm talking about, so I need you to kind of split your brains in half and let the images flow over one side and listen to me on the other. So I am one of those people with a transformative personal story. Six years ago, after 20 years in graphic design and typography, I changed the way I was working and the way most graphic designers work to pursue a more personal approach to my work, with only the humble attempt to simply make a living doing something that I loved. But something weird happened. I became bizarrely popular. My current work seems to resonate with people in a way that has so taken me by surprise that I still frequently wonder what in the hell is going on. And I'm slowly coming to understand that the appeal of what I do may be connected to why I do it.

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