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I started a tongue-in-cheek group on Facebook entitled “People who’ve never deliberately clicked on a banner ad”. I did it to poke fun at some of the advertising conventions ad agencies and their clients have tried to drag onto the internet. One of the favorites, and a clear sign the agency is still […]

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Posted by misterarthur on Sunday, February 10th, 2008

To ink or not to ink.

I’m a tattoo guy, go ahead, call me white trash if you must. I know I’m not alone, a recent study showed that 1 in 7 high school students had a tattoo before a driver’s license, with 1 in 4 having one before a diploma.
This kind of thing really interests me as it brings […]

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Posted by casey on Thursday, February 7th, 2008

Now how exactly do I place an order for 1500 custom stickies?

Would anybody tell a friend?
I want to get an metric ton of these Post-It®s made and distributed in the building. If “yes” isn’t the answer to this question, why even bother? What’s next — “nah… our stuff doesn’t need to show up on Google.”

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Posted by Chris on Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

Super Tuesday

Watching the Super Tuesday results come in reminded me of a piece I read last week. The Boston Globe had an interesting article wherein typographers took a hard look at the then candidates’ graphic materials. They weren’t particularly impressed with Hillary’s materials:
“The Hillary type palette is far from fresh and colorful; it is begging […]

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Posted by misterarthur on Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

Death of a multi-linguist

Sad news out of the UK today. Miles Kington, the man who arguably did more to improve (or not, depending on your point of view) relations between les rosbifs (the English) and les frogs (the French) has died. As well-traveled Americans will undoubtedly appreciate, trips to a foreign country (especially a French speaking one, like […]

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Posted by Jeremy on Saturday, February 2nd, 2008