Made By One Girl is Lisa Norris’ site. She’s a Nooga local, and makes all sorts of cool hand-bound books, stationary, Polaroid cards, and collages. Great work, great vibe, nice lady.
Sensegraphy has great work, but I could seriously stare at their splashpage for hours.
I’m not much of a cat person (or a dog person either, i’m indifferent), but if I ever had a cat, I would hope it would be as cool as this cat.
Chuck updates NoPattern with new personal work and magazine layouts and shoes and… you get the picture.
Wonderful applications such as Photoshop will only inexplicably crash when you are working very quickly on a file you really like while simultaneously forgetting to save said file.
Bank Of America’s Keep The Change feature rounds up your debit card purchases to the nearest dollar and then transfers the difference into your savings account (free of charge.) That’s nifty. Kottke says, “this is the first neat thing I’ve ever seen a bank do.” and i’d add that this is the first DIFFERENT thing i’ve seen a bank do in a long time.
The stop sign at the corner of St. Elmo Ave. and 38th (where our office is) has “HAMMER TIME” scrawled underneath the “STOP” text. Everytime I see it, it makes me laugh for about 2 minutes. It’s the little things.
Update: My coworker Dwayne sent me photographic proof of a similar incident. Though I have to admit, there’s still something special about good old Sharpie scrawl.
You know your coworkers are judging you, but did you know they’re judging you by your iTunes library and playlists? (If they are, in my case, I’m not sure what my coworkers would think. You can fit a lot of judgment into 50GB of music.)
NY/LA based marketing/design firm Big Spaceship recently launched a new website and I have to say, I miss the playfulness and different-ness of their last site (or even the simplicty of the one before that.) The new one’s just a bit… normal. The work, however, is excellent, as always.
Slate wonders if Burger King, and their ad agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky, are creating fake hype for the BK King Halloween masks. Word of mouth and viral marketing is still in its infancy, at least as a recognized way to sell products, but it might meet with quite the backlash if companies and agencies keep tricking people.
WNBA poster girl Sheryl Swoopes publicly acknowledges she’s a lesbian. It’s not so much surprising, the WNBA has always struggled with acknowledging/ignoring the homosexual element in women’s athletics. But I do find it humorous that they used a very pregnant Swoopes in marketing and advertising pieces when the league began to put a heterosexual face on the WNBA and try to combat the gay stigma.
Top 10 slogan advertising campaigns. (Things like this are always subjective, but it’s not a bad list.)
The World Series is putting a severe damper on my (until recently) newly carefully crafted sleeping schedule. Seriously, fellas… 14 innings? 15 relief pitchers? 440 pitches? The longest World Series game ever? It wasn’t even that good… it just wouldn’t DIE ALREADY. And neither of you are even the Yankees, so i’m a bit perplexed as to why i’ve been sucked in to caring about watching this year; yet there I am, at some early hour of the morning, yelling at the TV for someone to do something.
Let’s end this thing tonight, Chicago White Sox, and win the World Series. (I’m still completely weirded out by saying that. I mean, the White Sox?)
You know you want to amaze your friends at the next Texas Hold ‘Em party by learning Poker Chip Tricks.
The new Sigur Rós video for Glosoli is cinematic on that grand scale that makes me happy. Beautifully shot. Great build up and delivery. If you’re unfamiliar with Sigur Rós, they’re an Icelandic band who writes music with made up gibberish language lyrics. Just go with it.
Get your eBay on with George, a 1954 Austin A30 hand-painted by Australian artists Tilt and Mist.
Pumpkin-flavored Pabst Blue Ribbon. Festive PBR… it’s almost like i’m in North Carolina with my Dad’s hill country people.
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I'm a graphic designer and sometimes writer living in Anderson, South Carolina. I serve as the Design Director for NewSpring Church. I love Jesus, my wife, Levi's Jeans, good Tex-Mex, and 8oz glass bottle Coca-Cola Classic. On good days I love them roughly in that order. Email me.