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Steve Douglas on September 22nd, 2009

In an announcement that took some in the design industry by surprise, iStockphoto today announced that they were planning to roll out some sort of stock logo service, presumably after the New Year. Shortly after the news hit Twitter (and after receiving an e-mail from David Airey about the plan) I received this e-mail from [...]

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Steve Douglas on September 13th, 2009

As part of our brand and site retooling, we’re planning to release a regular series of podcasts through iTunes and our site. Gearing up for a weekly release, though that might be a tad optimistic if earlier efforts are any indication.
Previous Podcast fail
We started recording podcasts last year, but our ‘weekly’ series fell quickly to [...]

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If you’ve been following the design and advertising industry news over the past month or so, you’ve probably bumped into someone sqwaking about the CP+B (Crispin, Porter & Bogusky) crowdsourced project for the Brammo company, creator of the Enteria electric ‘power bike’. If not, let’s recap quickly. CP+B, a big thing among trendy ad agencies, [...]

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Steve Douglas on September 2nd, 2009

Update: Ruh-oh. According to AdFreak it looks like the ad was approved by WWF Brazil and DID run (just once) in a Brazilian newspaper.
“WWF Brasil and DDB Brasil would like to jointly express their regret for the unfortunate incident involving the ‘Tsunami’ ad for World Wildlife Fund Brasil. The ad does not convey either the [...]

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Steve Douglas on August 14th, 2009

Things on our blog are going to be a little hinky over the next few days. Regular readers will probably have noticed that we’ve begun to integrate our new logo, and our new web design layout (see here for that plan) into these pages. Figured that would be a good way to begin our new [...]

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