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Category Archives: General Design and Art
This Magical Glass Knows What You’re Drinking
Well isn’t this friggin’ cool? A Serbian designer has created a drinking glass that’s as magical as it is colorful. The trick? Fill it up with a beverage, and it will spell out the type of drink on the side … Continue reading
The Small Screen Gets Some Big Props
We thought we were doing you a service by tipping you off to the YouTube Show & Tell channel, which highlights the site’s best brand work and the creatives behind them. As it turns out, we were only scratching the … Continue reading
A 3D Escher Tribute that’ll Make Your Head Spin
Hey, we know it’s Friday. And we tackled some hefty topics this week. Your head’s probably spinning. In that case, this might not help. But we thought it was a fun treat anyway: a 3D tribute to MC Escher by … Continue reading
Illustrating Good Design
Here’s a little catnip for our creatives; after all, it is a Monday. As a follow-up to designer Dieter Rams’ 10 principles of good design, inksie has tapped a group of ten writers and illustrators to come up with essays … Continue reading
The Many Shades of the Man in Black
In our previous discussions about user-generated content, we’ve noted that consumers do need to be incentivized to participate in these campaigns, but that “incentivize” isn’t necessarily a code word for “give them free stuff.” You may remember our coverage of … Continue reading
Learn a Thing or Two
It’s been a while since we passed along some design tips to you fine folks (huh, almost four months!), so we figured we’d share these 40 Outstanding Photo Manipulation Tutorials. Something tells me that pirate hamster image is going to … Continue reading
Competition for the Greater Good
“Corporate social responsibility” and “crowdsourcing” are so ubiquitous in today’s marketing that even mentioning either term generally elicits more yawning than fawning. Of course, both tactics continue to resonate with consumers, so we can’t completely forget about them either. What … Continue reading
Que Linda
Whew – we went pretty deep this week, with big postings on brand storytelling and creatively seducing bloggers. It’s Friday, so let’s sit back, take in some chill music, and lazily paint a picture or something. Oh, how kind of … Continue reading
“We’ll let YOU do the work!”
Continuing our discussion of Chris Anderson’s study of free stuff… “Free” might mean “zero dollars,” but let’s not forget that their are other labor and service costs associated with free stuff. Really savvy marketers resolve this dilemma by using the … Continue reading