Leo Lionni
"One purpose of this book is to remind advertisers that design is a seemingly inexhaustible source of visual excitement." Steven Heller on Leo Lionni's Alternative Theory of Advertising Design.
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Tangentially related to the last. "I finished up three ads, went on vacation to St. Thomas, depressed, came back two weeks later, and I was a star." An interview with iconic art director and hero...
View ArticleLunar Trails
Lunar Trails by Seb Lee-Delisle "features a full size arcade cabinet running the vintage 1979 game Lunar Lander. As you play the game, the path that you take is rendered on the wall with a large...
View ArticleTaaldoktoren
Taaldoktoren (language doctors) is a translation company “making your texts better.” They offer services like editing Dutch texts (linguistic surgery) and translating texts from Dutch to English and...
View ArticleLabatt's Employee Drinking Songs Handbook
"Up with the sale of it, down with a pail of it, Glorious, glorious beer!" Labatt's Employee Drinking Songs Handbook.
View ArticleFreebies for First Movers
5 freebies for first movers from our pal Dan Pink. Dan's new book To Sell is Human is out soon and you get goodies (including a special orange Field Notes memo book) if you pre-order.
View ArticleAn Idiot of the 33rd Degree
In honor of Samuel Longhorn Clemens' birthday today, a letter to An Idiot of the 33rd Degree.
View ArticleLaunch: Capitalism Is
This week, I and my team at Unit Interactive launched a fun side project. Capitalism Is… is a simple, concise site that walks people through some of the important aspects of capitalism…
View Article37 or So Ingredients
Photographer Dwight Eschliman series 37 or So Ingredients breaks down what makes a Twinkie.
View ArticleAn Hour Alone, Before Dinner
"...an hour alone before dinner, with a drink."—Joan Didion.
View ArticleCigar Smoke
"The Pirates' offices at Three Rivers were cool and windowless and smelled like cigars. I've never smoked, but to this day I love second-hand cigar smoke, which I associate with summer and baseball the...
View ArticleEvery Picture Tells a Story
We live in a data-driven world. We have information on clicks and time spent on the page and referrals and keywords…all of which is carefully gathered and analyzed. We can test multiple variants and...
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