Once upon a time, I used to cut out photos, captions and headlines from the newspaper and rearrange them to make a totally new statement. I'd often follow the newly formed thought with lines of verse, making for a rudimentary media mashup. Austin Kleon, "a writer who draws" is up to something similar. He takes newsprint and marks it out with a Sharpie, leaving a few key phrases visible thereby constructing new …
Graphic Design Is Now A Commodity! ? ;-(
CrowdSpring is "crowdsourcing" graphic design. It's a business model that makes sense on the The Internet, in that it connects people with services to offer with people who want to buy those services. A writer from Forbes looks the company's progress and the "snooty" response from industry pros. CrowdSpring.com, allows buyers to run competitions for company logos, Web sites, T-shirts and the like. For buyers of …
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People Can Be So Mean, Yada Yada Yada
On his personal site, Brian Morrissey, a journalist at Adweek, takes note of a colleague's piece on Eric Silver leaving BBDO for DDB. This is out of my depth: two traditional creatives who mostly make TV spots. What's interesting is the intense discussion that has ensued in the comments section, where there are 162 responses in less than a day. Like Cathy (Taylor), I think it lays bare the jealousies and fears of the …
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It’s Not A Phone, It’s A Hand Held Computer And A Passport To Adventure
Steve Casimiro of The Adventure Life is sharing a great look at iPhone applications designed for outdoor adventure enthusiasts. Do the iPhone and Mother Nature play well? The short is answer is "yes". The iPhone excels at delivering information. Programs that channel local knowledge-surf reports, snow reports, water flows-are perfect applications of the phone's strengths. There are great apps in this list. You can …
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Celebs Offend Someone, Somewhere, Somehow
ESPN pulled this spot from the airwaves after gay rights advocates complained that it's homophobic. In other celebrity endorsement news, Ashley Judd who hails from Kentucky where no wolves live, gets up in Gov. Palin's face on behalf of Defenders of Wildlife. Watch: I found both spots on Adfreak. Flame throwers are starting to heat up in response to the wolf commercial. One reader asks, "is everyone in NY such …
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Kellogg’s Is Square
The President of the United States smoked pot when he was young. As have most Americans. So it's NO SURPRISE that super swimmer, Michael Phelps, would take a chill from his demanding schedule of swimming, working out and public appearances to hit the pipe. There's this concept that he upset people, the the Phelpsian public has lost faith. That's absurd. Speaking of absurdity, Kellogg's can't hang with the news. …
The Standard for Case Studies Has Been Rewritten
W+K/London gave birth to a new agency site to showcase their work. In a sea of bad agency credentials sites, this one is exceptional. One minus...there doesn't appear to be any embed code for the series of videos that showcase the campaigns. But click through and watch this Nokia case study. A standard gallery and text display it is not. …
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Outside of TED: Make Something That Matters, Like A Tribe
In case you haven't heard, Seth Godin has a new book out. It's called Tribes. …
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