Category: Blog

This Headline Is a Trial Balloon

Depending on the roll of a virtual dice that a computer on the internet just cast, this blogpost has one of the two following headlines:

“This Headline is a Trial Balloon”

or

“Testing, Testing 1, 2, 3”

Welcome to one of the cooler (and really powerful) areas of digital communication: real-world testing.

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What Details Matter?

Even though Apple’s latest iPad model (the third) has been on sale for close to a month, there are still many billboards up advertising the iPad 2. I have spotted them in recent days all over San Francisco and also in Los Angeles. For what has been historically a famously detail-oriented company that seems to live by (and for) the theater of it’s product launches — this seems odd.

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Creative Directing and Walking at the Same Time

I was not feeling a piece of work grab me the other day while working with a designer on a project. The work looked sharp — but there wasn’t one main element that called out to me… one thing that just popped off “the page” and made me want to dive in. It was all a bit of a blur.

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