The idea for the image - a variation on the idea of the resource footprint - comes from Dr Julian Allwood and colleagues at Cambridge University, including his PhD students.

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Working from an image or an idea in her head, the artist starts to build up from that shape, stacking cedar four-by-fours into an intricate structure like a fantastical set of Lincoln Logs.

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Houzz, a design and home remodeling site that allows users to create image-driven idea books and source contractors, has arguably become the largest player in the digital home design space, tallying up 10 million monthly users in the final months of 2012.

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"I'll have an idea -- an image of a horse race or a polo match -- and sketch it until I get something that has motion and movement, " he said.

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But the horrid man image would come from the mistaken idea that the barrister is there bullying people all the time, leaning on them unfairly, taking advantage of them in the witness box.

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Mr Williams said he had no urge to try and track down the image that caught his imagination but was not against the idea of seeing it again.

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Gingrich's aides are downplaying the idea that the trip is meant to be an image-resurrecting tour.

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The image many people have of consumer debt is skewed by the idea that only wasteful spending can create debt.

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He would also get rid of the idea that if a viewer focuses on the details of an image rather than the broader picture, then he is likely to have an obsessive personality.

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