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Category Archives: Fun
Today’s Google Doodle
February 8, 2011 – 12:58 pm
As you’ve undoubtedly seen, today’s Google Doodle is super cool! The interactive (lever on the right) Google logo honors Jules Verne—a science fiction writer—who gave us the Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and A Journey to the Center of the Earth. Although Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea was before my time (1954), my [...]
Sesame Street Has Some Fun
October 12, 2010 – 8:15 am
This is too funny. Instead of SNL doing a parody of the Old Spice Guy, Groover on Sesame Street does the parody. If you haven’t seen it yet, watch the Old Spice commercial first. It’s awesome how Sesame Street made it their own and how it is funny for both adults and kids.
Show UPS Some Love
October 6, 2010 – 11:00 am
Whether you think it’s good or bad, you can’t help but stop and watch. I can easily see something like this in New Orleans near Jackson Square to go with the array of street performers already there. Well done UPS. Show your brand some love!
New & Old Technology
October 1, 2010 – 4:04 pm
I was perusing USA Today on my iPhone last night and I read two headlines and subsequent articles that peaked my interest – Google Street View available on all continents and Serialized novel delivered by an app. These two titles got me thinking about how technology has brought some things back and how it sometimes [...]
Branding Down to the Core
September 28, 2010 – 8:36 am
Last month my wife & I spent a long weekend in New York City for our anniversary. It was a nice break from life, but I could not help get caught up in the branding & advertising surrounding Times Square. I’ve seen it on TV and in movies hundreds of times, but you do not [...]
Connecting the Dots
August 12, 2010 – 9:02 am
I can’t think of one promising finger painter or notepad doodler in their earliest design years who has expressed interest in becoming a “Communicator!” when he or she grows up. In freshman naivete, I presumed that my future as a collegiate remained a mystery behind one of only two doors to the university art department: [...]
I Guess Google Doesn’t Know All
July 16, 2010 – 8:10 am
We’ve had a lot of conversations in the office about the power of Google and what they might do with it. Google has a great office culture (Google “google office“) and provides many free apps, such as Docs, Analytics, and Maps to drive traffic to their websites. I am still astonished every time I look [...]
Misguided Logo Typefaces
June 25, 2010 – 4:37 pm
Sometimes we, as designers, complain about the overuse of common themed fonts like Papyrus, Brush Script, and Comic Sans. We also complain about misusing the font such as the example below. A local store called Upscale Clothing uses Comic Sans as their logo. Why would a place describing themselves as upscale use a handwritten font? [...]
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