First I need to give credit to the photographer of this photo…Paranoramix’s Flickr photostream can be found here. This is an effort by the WWF to increase awareness for the giant pandas and their declining population. There were 1600 paper mache pandas used, to signify how many giant pandas are left. Above is a picture of Lyon, France. They have also been to the Piazza Del Popolo in Rome, and I believe they are planning more stops before the poor paper pandas go for sale on eBay. On a side note, the World Wildlife Fund website kind of made me want to poke myself. No article about this campaign could be located using their search or google’s search. It’s an attractive site, I just found it extremely hard to get the information I wanted. Anyways, GO GIANT PANDAS!

The above logo was the orginal re-design. I’ll admit it took me a few moments to realize why people were saying it was too racy or sexy, and unfit for the family based touristm. The logo below was what they actually settled on. It’s still an upgrade from their old logo, but I would have voted for the first version above.

I decided to create some icons of a few of the more traveled countries.  You can download them here.
I’ve been using them as folder icons for my pictures of the corresponding country.  I’ll be making more general travel icons in the future, and I will add more countries.  It takes a little while to create them.

The 2nd button in the FLaKoHN Series. France 1″ Button. Featuring the Eiffel Tower in front of National Flag Background. $1.00 in the Izuno Store.