Archive for the ‘Creative’ Category
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I’m Banksy
That’s what Justin Timberlake said at the Oscars. I was quite surprised at the time, remembering years ago when the name ‘Banksy’ was just a whisper heard on the streets of London, and now he was being referenced in a joke on one of the biggest international stages the world has to offer. I was pretty much clueless as to the events that have transpired between those two states of his notoriety – from unknown to infamous, all the while remaining a ghost. Then I saw Exit Through the Gift Shop… and all that changed.
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The creative age paradigm
Earlier in the year we were looking at designers to bring in on our project. We really wanted to push the envelope on what was possible within the digital space, take it somewhere new even. We looked at a lot of portfolios and talked to a bunch of different professionals. And the process reminded me a lot about last year when I was looking for developers for a similarly cutting edge project. And to be honest what I found is that the more experience a person has the more closed-minded they are. Then it sort of hit me:
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The realization of copywriting
This might sound like a terrible thing to say, being that I’m a two year associate creative director veteran, but I’ve just recently learned to fully appreciate the masterful craft that is most commonly known as copy-writing. In my defense, during my years as a coder I had little reason to think about the copy whilst I went about producing websites against almost-too tight deadlines. We ran into the widow/orphan issue now and again but the reality was that like 95% of my relationship with the creative department as a techie was with the designers – I’d work with production…
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Pop Your Facebook Profile Picture
I came across a cool article the other day which had some examples on how to go a little crazy with your Facebook profile picture, so I can’t take full credit for this. In fact I might not be able to take any credit at all, I just got done reading the article when my good friend (and awesome photographer) Doug… was walking by, he had his full set of equipment with him that day and the next thing I knew I was hanging from the drywall down the hall with a flash on either side of me, I’m just