December 2011
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July 2011
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May 2011
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April 2011
9 posts
Is the pinnacle of online geekery...
…consistently tweeting stories before Mashable even gets to them? Is it weird that it gives me a fleeting sense of unadulterated pride?
Auto Buds →
autobuds:
One of the earliest pair of Auto Buds posted were these two shy buds:
A pair of old, red Cherokees who clearly wanted to be Auto Buds but were playing it cool. Well, today, over a month later, they finally got together:
I literally gasped when I saw it and my heart started racing. I was…
If only all tech support was this intimate.
Here’s a letter I recently got from a guy who was helping me with my archaic email client at work, made me giggle:
Dear Brad, I want you to know that when I got your call, I was hopeful that I would be able to carry it to completion. What I like about my help desk work is getting answers for people and seeing the reaction that I get when I do. I hope the experience wasn’t too...
March 2011
11 posts
“Part of the problem these days is there’s so much choice. At some point, someone...”
– Victore
“Ask for more. Always. Ask for more time, ask for more creativity, ask for more...”
– Victore
“I hope I’m not the only one, but I feel supremely validated every time my...”
– Me
WatchFirst off, I think this is an incredible reel. As someone who is constantly fascinated by the art of compositing, these guys have clearly carved out a name for themselves.
However, when I first saw this link in the twittersphere, it was paired with the questions “is there anything we can’t fake in a computer?” And to that question, I’d have to say -
Yes.
I don’t...
February 2011
7 posts
January 2011
2 posts
May 2010
4 posts
March 2010
1 post
February 2010
2 posts
How to approach a creative brief.
1) What is the Insight, Problem, or Universal Truth?
2) What is the Challenge or Mandate from the Client?
3) Name the Big Idea or Solution in plain English.
4) Articulate the idea in a creative and effective manner.
5) Let the execution happen; it should come on its own.
January 2010
6 posts
TALL, SLENDER REDHEAD AVAILABLE FOR NIGHTTIME... →
And its still up if you hurry. Craigslist servers are probably getting pinged quite a bit right about now.
Comic sans without the desire to kill kill kill
Some alternatives to the font with the worst reputation on the planet (via sixrevisions):
Lexia Readable
P22 Kaz Pro
JM Doodle Medium
FF Friday Regular
Sharktooth Regular
Comic Strip
Always use lions in your ads.
Heard some great advice from Luke Sullivan today. Always use lions. If you don’t have room for a full-on Lion, then use a Tiger. Its second-best, but hey. It’ll work. Guaranteed your work will be 10x better if it has a Lion in it.
We got close with our Doritos campaign last year, but only got some other lowly wild animals. Next time baby.
“New favorite quote:
I’m modifying a photograph of a ring so that it looks...”
– http://www.tofslie.com/hey/2007/11/17/web-design-client-quotes/
Quotes from terrible clients: you know the ones.
Below you will find a collection of random, yet oh-so-familiar true quotes from web design clients:
“Please follow original instructions. we don’t want this page to look tricked out or computer generated…”
“I want our side bar to look exactly like amazon’s. oh, here i am gonna send it to you, just use it…and then maybe make it kinda pastel, i hear that’s the new thing now, to make things look...