AdFreak- A 'Relax' cover? Oh Red Stripe, don't do it. July 28, 2010You'd think an elder statesman like the Red Stripe Ambassador would know better than to cover Frankie Goes to Hollywood's "Relax" in his musical debut. […]Adweek Blogs
- Did this tweet merit a $70K copywriting job? July 28, 2010Saatchi & Saatchi L.A. exec Mike McKay's idea of hiring a copywriter based on a single funny tweet seemed like bad idea jeans from the get-go. […]Adweek Blogs
- Go earn that GED and trash your crappy job July 28, 2010The Ad Council makes a potent, straightforward case for getting a GED: It can help break down barriers and lead to better jobs. […]Adweek Blogs
- A 'Relax' cover? Oh Red Stripe, don't do it. July 28, 2010
- Brand New
- Virb is the New Virb July 29, 2010In the Mesozoic era of social networking — that distant year of 2007 — a new community was poised to take over the web, replacing the aging and visually painful MySpace species. Virb allowed users, who joined by invitation only, to craft and customize extremely elegant and sophisticated personal profiles with all the accoutrements of online social behavior. […]Armin
- More Tickets Available for Brand New Conference July 28, 2010Thanks to the positive response we received earlier this week and plenty of sad-faced emoticons in Twitter and our inbox of people who missed out on registration, we are definitely upgrading the capacity of the conference. The switch to the bigger auditorium means that an additional 25 student tickets and 210 regular tickets are now available for purchase. I […]Armin
- Pac-10 does The Wave (and The Mountain) July 28, 2010I have always been amazed at both the freakish passion with which Americans love their college sports and the economical, social and logistical complexity of its athletic governing body, the NCAA. Every layer of the operation matters. Which is why something as natural as a redesign can be turned into a big media crusade when one of the more than thirty confe […]Armin
- Virb is the New Virb July 29, 2010
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Play to pay
If you ask my wife she’ll tell you that I vary between the ages of 12-15 on any given day. And I’m proud of that. As a person in the “creative industry” it’s important that I never forget to play. It’s vital that we all never lose that child-like hope and optimism for fun things. [...]
The Beauty of Simplicity.
We just launched a new web site for Affect Strategies (www.affectstrategies.com), and we’re pretty darn proud of it. Now to be clear here, let’s talk about what we didn’t do. When we first started discussing this assignment, the original wireframe, basic structure and starting look had already been established, so there wasn’t much here for [...]
How Twitter’s spectacular growth is being driven by unexpected uses (Evan Williams)
Evan Williams is the co-founder of Twitter, the addictive messaging service that connects the world 140 characters at a time.
Lessons learned and people I’m thankful for
Many, many years ago, I was living in Ft. Lauderdale trying to figure out what I wanted to do with the rest of my life. I had recently moved from Southern California where I had left behind a six-figure sales and consulting job. I had been extremely successful at sales after some intense training while [...]
The drive to create
What is the drive to create and where does it come from? Honestly, I’m not really sure. But here’s one perspective and a whole lot of talent…
Creativity 101
GUY KAWASAKI OF HOW TO CHANGE THE WORLD | FEBRUARY 4TH, 2009 – 01:05 AM I just came across an interview called “The Hidden Secrets of the Creative Mind” with psychologist R. Keith Sawyer, author of the book Explaining Creativity: The Science of Human Innovation. Sawyer’s research examines the secrets to the creative process, and [...]
An open letter to “creatives”.
As we weather these tough times, things are going to become more and more difficult for us. Clients are going to be more concerned with ROI and immediate gratification on assignments. This is how they keep their jobs. Get used to it. It will matter less and less how spectacular the artwork looks or how [...]
The future of interaction and interface design
So the iPhone is the global hit of massive proportions right now. I, Tim the nerd, have fallen deep within it’s seductive qualities. As the saying goes “I am special and unique, just like everybody else” (who also owns an iPhone). I truly believe that the reasons that Apple has succeeded where so may others [...]
Education and Creativity – One perspective
So recently I was browsing through my Twitter followings and from @phemey I found a really interesting (and entertaining) perspective on the education system as we know it now and it’s effect on “creativity”. I will be the first to say that I do not have an in depth knowledge of the educational system as it exists [...]
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Proud to be working with the Central Oregon Renegade Rollergirls
We’re proud to launch the next event poster for one of our clients, the Central Oregon Renegade Rollergirls. If you ever get the chance to attend one of these events, do it! It’s a blast! The first 3 people that send an email to them at themdidit.com with their contact information and that live can [...]
Things that inspire us today…
Metallica identity redo Film is not dead Beautiful visuals created by science Urban Typography
Welcome to THEM!
First off, we’d like to say that truly great creativity and thinking is what pushes our buttons. It’s not something that we really chose. It’s just kinda part of who we are. We are a non-traditional marketing agency in the sense that we don’t have a ton of committees that review and kill great ideas. [...]
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