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Cool Flash Message

Ignore the Ghandi quote Flash intro... but the Flash Header on the actual page is pretty cool, and communicates the website's message in a captivating yet efficient way.
http://bcorporation.net/

Frog thinks Creatively, and pays for it.

...the design community, a group that, in the words of Frog Design president and COO Doreen Lorenzo, "inherently wants to do good and change the world."

At Frog, a creative consultancy with 350 employees in four countries, that fuzzy impulse was harnessed by one young staffer's off-the-wall initiative. In May, Ashley Menger, a design analyst in Austin, pledged to live a garbage-can-free life for two weeks and keep all the detritus she generated within 5 feet at all times, documenting her travails on a Frogblog called Trash Talk. Soon, Frogs from Seattle to Stuttgart had picked up her trashy torch and were attempting to replicate her mission...

...Frog executives resolved to channel this grassroots enthusiasm into something more formal, a lab for green concept development dubbed Frogware. The project's first mission: to come up with a couple of provocative green prototypes in time for the World Design Congress in San Francisco in October...

...To ensure that staffers' thinking was unfettered by such pedestrian constraints as budgets or market size, the company pledged to spend $1 million in otherwise billable time and resources to develop in-house ideas...

Read the Full Story

Content Aware Image Resizing

Oh my lord!? Pixels lie, that's all there is to it! Never trust any images you don't see with your own 2 eyes. Period.

Seam Carving for Content-Aware Image Resizing (PDF)

Vector Magic from Stanford

sweet online bitmap-to-vector conversion tool:
http://vectormagic.stanford.edu/vectorize/how_to_use_this_site

It's is really interesting conversation about copyright and without actually saying it... it's about Creative Commons. (CC)

Fo' Shizzle//

Thought everyone might want to have a peek at the Star 'Cribs' teaser...  Although its a client-only event (meaning, we're not invited), its still cool to look at...

A few Good Creative Men

It's a little over the top, but fun to watch.

Cool Hunting//

If you're looking for some cool, what better thing to do than go hunting?

This site provides a lot of ads deemed cool, along with many other examples of really cool coolness...

oh, sorry, she's in our uglytown office today. would you like her voicemail?

really, gyro?
more analysis here and here.

talk about a cool idea...

apple goes consumer-generated for iphone

that new apple spot for the iphone you've been seeing all weekend? it was done by an 18-year-old freshman university student in england.

“That’s the whole point of advertising; it needs to get to the user,” Mr. Haley said. “If you get the user to make the ads, who better?”

read the article here.

philly roller girls on ads of the world

nice!

James is gone...

...but this song infects my mind

advertising can combat social ills

further proof that advertising can be good for society. (via)

another sweet environmental idea

in light of our upcoming efforts on behalf of dupont for america recycles day: damn. (via)

washington lottery: million dollar raffle

two spots for the washington lottery million dollar raffle. from publicis seattle, no less. i'd really love to hear what everyone else thinks of these...
(via)

the eye of the bull

the next time you're tempted to reach for cezanne, take a look at olho de boi, a sweet free font by billy argel. it has a nice, deep character set. plus, it's free (for personal use, of course). and, best of all... it isn't cezanne.

(via)
(this one's for you, jonathan mathers)

Fruit Pants//

So funny.

the best idea i've seen in a while

see full size and read rationale here (but then again, an idea this simple and this good doesn't need much explanation, does it?)

Sweep the Leg

Not sure if any of you have seen this yet or not, but I came across this a few weeks ago. Anyone who grew up in the 80's will appreciate this Karate Kid throw back... very well done and pretty damn funny, the music sucks, but the video is cool.

http://www.sweeptheleg.com/

cool stuff: pantone flash drives

from tracy's follow-up email from our creative team meeting:

4. We need portable hard drives for art directors and 2 gig flash drives for transferring files from station to station.

may i recommend: pantone flash drives?

seriously? $29 for 2gb? $49 for 4gb? plus free engraving?

Rate Beer

Thought everyone may enjoy this site, I know I did and it's free to sign up. Check it out...

http://www.ratebeer.com/default.asp

Fantasy Cocktail League

if you're into this type of thing

101 Things Designers Can Do to Save The Earth

The best music site ever//

Deezer is the coolest shit ever.

Any song that you've ever wanted to listen to, in CD quality...  On your own streaming radio station.

Oh, and its totally free (and legeal, not that it really matters).

new wheels

star gives people cell phones, and laptops. so why dont we get these?

http://aptera.com/

Color Wizard//

If you're looking to mix up some hues, and see what looks good with what, check out the COLOR Wizard. 

It works great for me when I'm laying out a website/ad, and want to get out of shades that I always wind up going back to (either out of comfort, or laziness).

Bravo, Bravia//

You guys might have all seen the three Bravia spots, but if you haven't... what a sweeeeet campaign.

sharing is caring

new serivce from adobe: share. not sure how helpful this is to our workflow... maybe in cases where we're working remotely and can't email big stuff. cool regardless.

in light of the new office in delaware

Conran, London... not too interested in what it says, but the idea is nice. maybe we can port this to the crescent building?

when I grow up...

I want to be in advertising!



whee! this is fun!

Soldier Boy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKQgDY0pZ68

Welcome//

Since we all decided that it would be a cool thing to be able to share stuff (thoughts, inspiration, program tips, random bitching, videos, etc.), what better way to do so than by the creation of our very own blog!

So here it is.

We don't all work within the same four walls, so there's lots and lots to talk about.  Hopefully, we'll all benefit from it.

J