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High-Tide Design: Might & Main wins Best of Show
In our smartphone society, the experience of dining out begins long before you check in with the hostess. The procedure goes like this: Type what you have a taste for and a location into Google Places...
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Breaking Bad (Habits)
“Paradoxically, it is true that your brain will develop habit patterns and decide what’s good and bad in the art that you’re making. And as your brain is making those decisions you will not find the...
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Do Something Else!
In early 2005 I was stuck. In a creative rut. The ideas weren’t coming as fast. Sometimes they weren’t coming at all. Basically, my Mojo wasn’t working. So, I went on an audition. Although I’ve been...
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The Sound of Advertising: Beatles for Sale
For those of us who came of age in the 1960s, The Beatles are sacred ground. They provided the soundtrack to our lives. When I hear “Revolution,” I’m immediately transported to the summer of ’68. I...
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In-house Intersections
Meet Isaac. He works in our IT department and although his responsibilities have nothing to do with motion graphics and video, he has a passion for both and just received his master’s degree from NYU....
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Send Us Your Knock-Out Poster Designs – Deadline Extended
Fine, we’ll admit it: We love posters. We have posters of various sizes decorating our offices – some that show off the things we’re into and some that are intriguing designs we’ve come across. But the...
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Design Career Advice for Cold + Flu Season
Every designer has been there: You feel the aches and sniffles coming on the week before a big project is scheduled to wrap up. Maybe you chalk it up to stress, bad luck or that under-the-weather...
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Pantone Color of the Year: Radiant Orchid
Last week, we wrote about creative’s speculations as to what the Pantone Color of the Year would be. Today, Pantone announced the Color of the Year for 2014: Radiant Orchid 18-3224. According to their...
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New Caribou Coffee Packaging
I admit it. As a former barista, I’m a sucker for coffee, cafes, french presses and even bean-related branding. And a well-designed package of coffee will get me every time. I get the feeling design...
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For the Love of Letterpress
Early last year, we shared some tentative good news from the Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum in Two Rivers, WI. After discovering that they had to vacate their original location, they managed to...
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