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Bacon Tube – A free and meaty, quickly editable Youtube Channel PSD Template

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Recently I had the great opportunity to create a custom Youtube Channel for Dell. While there are some handy features in the Youtube admin tool to change out a handfull of properties (essentially CSS classes), I found it a bit time consuming creating a…

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a few good Sxsw 2012 panel proposals

I had a blast last year at sxsw, and i’m looking forward to an even better year in 2012. If your new to sxsw, first off welcome! secondly, you have the chance to help determine which panels / ideas / speakers will make it to the stage, through the online…

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Dream no small dreams; why I’m joining Dell.com

In less than a week, I will be starting a new chapter in my life, as I join the creative team behind Dell.com , and all it’s global iterations. As I’ve started to tell a few friends over the last week, I’ve had mixed reactions to say the least. From…

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a recap of “clients are not the target audience, users are”, from sxswi 2011

I recently had the honor of speaking at South by Southwest Interactive Festival, and had an even greater honor in meeting and leading the conversation with the extremely smart and talented Anton @repponen , an associate creative director at fantasy interactive ( @F_i ) in new york. I…

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passion. a festival. and a challenge. a recap of sxswi 2011

It was everything I could have imagined, and more. Which is saying alot, considering that I’ve dreamt of going for almost a decade. Not many things in life live up to expectations, but the 2011 south by southwest interactive festival certainly did. In an attempt for brevity, I will summarize…

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Topics of Interest — Prepping for #sxswi 2011

With our digital world changing at a tremendous pace, it’s almost comical to try and map out what topics / trends / themes I will be interested in 3 months from now, at South by Southwest Interactive 2011, but here it goes:

the creative agency

Though I have had…

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prepping for #sxswi 2011 — An Introduction

Like a kid at a candy store…

yep, seven years, three states, and 35,892 psd files later, I’m finally staring down the joy of taking part in the sxsw interactive festival this year. oh joy.

so to give this monumentous event the care and energy it deserves, I will be…

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Japanese design principles

In response to my recent post on the ‘ too slick ‘ factor, I wanted to share some design principles that I have been meditating on lately

FUKINSEI (imbalanced)
Asymmetry, odd numbers, irregularity, unevenness, imbalance is used as a denial of perfection as perfection and symmetry does not occur…

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the ‘too slick’ factor

recently i was looking for a home security company for the first time in my life, being the semi new home owner that i am, and as i began my search i noticed a pattern that i have been encountering lately.

of the few national / large companies that I…

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put down the stones, pick up the chisel

the other day i came back from lunch, to find the creative community abuzz with the witch burning of the redesigned gap identity.

to be honest, i was a bit disappointed with it. if asked, i would admit that. it’s not very playful. it’s not stretching the company visually or…

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