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Perfectly Branded Commercials

June 15, 2010 Design

Hats off to the creators of the Dodge Challenger Freedom and Google Chrome commercials. Both feel completely tailor-made for their audience. The Dodge commercial aired directly before the US vs England World Cup soccer match and once you watch it, you will understand why it’s so good. Just imagine yourself in a bar somewhere in [...]

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Quality Free Fonts and Type Design Resources

May 26, 2010 Design

Foundries/designers often promote themselves by releasing a free font. This drives traffic to their site and awareness to their brand/style. Below are examples of two quality typefaces I have come across recently, Lobster and Franchise Bold. For more free fonts check out Font Squirrel. It seems that the fonts available have undergone a quality filter, [...]

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Interesting Links I’ve Saved For Too Long On My Desktop

May 24, 2010 Design

elance.com + 99designs.com – I have been reading a lot about spec work recently. This post from Chris Brogan got me up to speed. Spec work is when an individual/company asks a community of designers for work, lets say a logo. 50 designers submit 50 logos and one gets picked as the best and gets [...]

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Two Ways To Make My Amazon.com Experience Better

May 14, 2010 Design

A few months ago I was having a conversation with my girlfriend’s brother-in-law about retail supply chains, we ended up coming up with a few ideas that I think would make my online shopping experience with amazon.com more sustainable and fun. A Buy Local Option – When I am shopping for something, lets say film [...]

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Making Good, Bad Photos: Holga vs. iPhone

May 13, 2010 Design

I recently dusted off my old cameras and went out shooting again. It took me 6 months to fill up two rolls of film on my Holga and Honeywell Pentax, but I wound up the film and sent it away to get processed. While I was waiting to get my pictures back I found out [...]

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Campfire Jam – Live at Rocktown

May 1, 2010 Design

My last blog post got me thinking about an old flash video project that I thought was lost in the depths of the internet. Well, I found it, dug it out and dusted it off. I used to frequent Pidgin Mountain in Georgia with a few friends. There is an abundance of bouldering and caving [...]

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