May 2008
20 posts
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“Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas...”
– Charles Eames
May 28th
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May 28th
May 27th
Shouldn't Every Employee be a Brand Ambassador? →
The answer is YES. Interesting post from the Brand Experience Lab.
May 23rd
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WatchWatch
Great little video from the surprisingly interesting Barnes & Noble Studio website, featuring John Gall, Art Director at Vintage Books, in which he shares his ”The 5 Rules of Book Cover Design”. In short, they are: Read the book Inspiration is everywhere Be thrifty with fonts Practice sound time management Rules are meant to be broken Honestly, these sound like five great...
May 23rd
“You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
– Jack London
May 23rd
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“Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.”
– ee cummings
May 23rd
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PRIMER
PRIMER may be the most ingenious movie I have ever seen. Here’s a brief synopsis, from the film’s website:   PRIMER is set in the industrial park/suburban tract-home fringes of an unnamed contemporary city where two young engineers, Abe and Aaron, are members of a small group of men who work by day for a large corporation while conducting extracurricular experiments on their own time...
May 23rd
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Procrasti-Nation →
Last week, Slate did a great job with a series of stories concerning an issue that plagues us all in our personal and professional lives: procrastination. My favorite story is “Procrasti-Nation: Workers of the World, Slack Off!”, which describes the procrastination techniques of a number of different professions. “Like There’s No Tomorrow,” details the economics of...
May 22nd
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“What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition...”
–  - Andy Warhol
May 21st
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May 19th
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Covering Bond →
Looks like Penguin has done it again with these Ian Fleming reissues. 
May 19th
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Can a Dead Brand Live Again? →
Great article from the always compelling Rob Walker in the Sunday Times Magazine regarding the viability of bringing latent brands back to life. there are some great examples in the article, as well as some discussion about the sometimes unpredictable manner in which brands reside in our consciousness.  I’ve always been one to root for the underdog and I love the archetypal...
May 19th
AdAge: Agencies Go From Selling to Creating... →
This was only a matter of time. Agencies have been toying with this model for a while now. Come to think of it, it’s unfortunate that Gyro, and their Sailor Jerry store weren’t mentioned. They were doing this at least a decade ago in Philly. 
May 13th
The Ampersand →
Great by type designer extraordinaire Jonathan Hoefler about the most elusive of typographic elements, the ampersand
May 12th
May 9th
open →
Cover, The Nation, designed by Open. , November 2, 1998  Scott Stowell, the principal of one of my all-time-favorite design firms, Open, is being recognized with a Cooper Hewitt National Design Award. Some times the good guys win and smart design prevails.
May 9th
IKEA "Fashion" Campaign →
May 7th