When he eventually brought together a design team he used one simple sketch, which he'd made in Cannes, and made one of the world's most innovative cars.

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The Ecosign team fired up AutoCAD, a design software used by architects and engineers to sketch three-dimensional project drafts, and used PCs to plug in technical numbers for Olympic courses.

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Mr Rees, from Swansea, saw a sketch of a soldier at Rorke's Drift used in promotion by the National Army Museum in January this year and recognised his great-grandfather.

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It was a historic event when 20 engineers each from GM North America, Opel and Saab gathered at the GM's technical center in Warren, Michigan, six years ago to sketch a midsize chassis, named Epsilon, to be used by all three divisions.

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It was a historic event when 20 engineers each from GM North America, Opel and Saab gathered at the GM technical center in Warren, Mich. six years ago to sketch a midsize chassis, named Epsilon, to be used by all three divisions.

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Pop, Pinhole, Sketch, Fisheye, Wedding, Rock, Watercolor, Miniature, and Mirror can also be used when shooting movies.

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Pop, Pinhole, Sketch, Fisheye, Wedding, Rock, Watercolor, Miniature, Mirror, and Dramatic can also be used when shooting movies.

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At first, The Avett Brothers' "Yardsale" unfolds as a fairly straightforward study of the mundane items at a neighborhood yard sale: From plastic flowers to a blade that may or may not have been used, the selections are viewed from a bittersweet distance, as if the band merely wants to draw a character sketch of lonely and unloved household goods.

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