Our dog made dog of the month. Really
I googled our dog – yes, insane, I know – and discovered she made dog of the month. Really. Here’s the proof
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The Art Directors Club and YouTube announced the launch of the “The Creative Process Illustrated – on YouTube,” a new series of documentary video shorts in which top agency creatives and marketers provide a rare behind-the-scenes look at how great online work is made. More here.
continue readingWheresSpot: the adventure continues
So yesterday – in our eternal search for perfection and world domination – Michael and I launched yet another iteration of WheresSpot
Now the homepage looks like this:
We put so much work into the site we built using drupal. Very proud of it. But / yet /and this new move just felt right. Facebook – [...]
continue readingSo you need a typeface
Try this handy decision tree, via Julia Hansen
Can even get a poster: here
Our Doggity’s Show
We got in the middle of this, by introducing Creator John McCoy to our client Kachew!
Great to see it coming to life on PBS Kids Sprout Update: LAUNCHED. Get your healthy recipes right here!
Guy Walks Across America
Ya’ll see this? From W + K, the fine folk who bring us the Old Spice Guy…
Below, the google map. Annotations here.
continue readingThe Mad Men ecosystem. This blog about the furniture. Really.
“Mad Men” Furniture: Don Draper’s Office. Interviews with the Production Designer. Property Master, etc. All here.
continue readingThe World’s Strongest, Most Expensive Beer — Inside a Squirrel
55 percent alcohol by volume – that’s 110 proof! – and $765. It’s called The End of History.
The bottles come in stuffed animals-like stuffed animals that were once alive. The 12 bottles have been made featuring seven dead stoats (a kind of weasel), four squirrels and one rabbit. James Watt, one of the two guys [...]
Back to Work for ‘Mad Men’
Excitement building…new season starts 25 July
Here’s a preview via Alessandra Stanley in “tomorrow’s” NYT.
Love this, from the end of her story:
“Don has dinner at Jimmy’s La Grange, a Midtown restaurant favored by advertising executives where chicken à la Kiev is a specialty, and diners are given bibs to protect them from the splatter of butter.
Those [...]
“WE NEED A DIRECTOR FOR OUR COMMERCIAL” and the sequels…
We didn’t make these. We just live it. Every day.
O, wait, we now have the director:
And now, the Cinematographer vs Producer
How about this: “Animatic Testing”
OH SHIT, SHE’S CALLING ME BACK…
The Cost Controller
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