{"id":1676,"date":"2012-10-20T11:18:24","date_gmt":"2012-10-20T15:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.picturemosaics.com\/blog\/?p=1676"},"modified":"2025-05-05T10:07:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T14:07:21","slug":"espn-sportsnation-photo-mosaic-mural","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.picturemosaics.com\/blog\/espn-sportsnation-photo-mosaic-mural\/","title":{"rendered":"The ESPN Sportsnation Photo Mosaic Mural"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With three years of airtime under their belt, ESPN Sportsnation was looking for the perfect way to bring every milestone together into one stunning piece. They contacted us to do just that. Using the well known, and complex, Sportsnation logo as the photo mosaic source image was one of our biggest source image challenges to date. 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