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I can usually tell if someone has heard of Cheerwine by looking to see if their mouths begin frothing when the name is mentioned. This little North Carolina-based soda brand has produced some fiercely loyal customers in their almost hundred years of being around (just under 70,000 of them on Facebook at this writing). They have one small problem: once their fans leave NC, they leave behind the delicious bubbly stuff. They’re working on the distribution issue by teaming up with Pepsi, but it’s a slow roll, and there are cases of withdrawal happening nationwide.
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Every year around this time, anyone whose parents describe their careers as “Oh, I don’t know, something with computers” picks up and ships down to Austin for SXSWi (South by Southwest interactive, aka spring break for nerds). In a horrendously broad stroke for the uninitiated, the conference tends to lay out what will happen in the next year of digital media, if you’re hanging out in the right places, listening to the right people. Twitter started here, and that’s supposed to be pretty big.
The problem with this usually lies in the signal-to-noise ratio. With so many companies wanting to lead their space, and so many people spouting their opinion as fact, there is frequently conflicting information in panels, and it’s easy for an attendee to just go numb to all the different inputs. This year was a bit different, and a large group of presenters from the keynote speakers to panelists had one topic on their minds: Games.
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Did you know it was NASDAQ’s 40th birthday? You probably didn’t even get it a card, did you. Tsk tsk. It’s fine though; I wouldn’t have known either if I weren’t contacted by the guys at HDMade to help create an infographic to celebrate the event. I’m excited to say the piece got picked up by Fast Company. See the full graphic after the jump.
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“Remember that secret project I mentioned a few months back?” he spoke to the imagined throngs of people who for some reason visit his site every day. “Good news!” he continued, “it’s almost done! And it’s a game. We just started promoting it, and you can find out about it over there.” He then gesticulated, across the intertubes, to another blog, this one containing info and more pictures.
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Bundle approached me with a unique job: Create a lunchbox design to award the winners of a “bring your lunch to work” contest. The contest went well, and the results can be seen on their site. My favorite entry is the Banana-and-Ritalin diet. The AMA has not yet weighed in on the benefits or dangers of this diet, so you may not want to make the leap, but it seems to be doing the anonymous Brooksley Boyd enough good to get her a place among the winners.
This is the first time my work has ever been used as an award. I think I kinda like it. Check out the fullscreen versions below!
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Today’s entry: Warning label for bubble tea, a known menace to society. After making this, I had a strange craving for the stuff. (label by me, image by Cordelia Roberts, who I do not know)
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A short series of infographics I did for Bundle.
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Welcome to the first installment of Designs From the Past – old bits of work I find new reasons (excuses?) to talk about. This issue: Anchor Blue.
A few years ago when Flash sites were all the rage and the possibilities were open to complex designs also being functional, I was at FLY and came up with this design as a pitch to Anchor Blue to add ecommerce functionality. It was a pitch, so of course the possibilities were stretched but looking back on it now, it seems that it has a place here in 2010, trend-wise.
Natural wood textures? Check. Distressed but not too distressed type? Check. And with the fervor over HTML 5 and more live type options than ever before (thanks again, typekit!) a design like this without having to use flash is actually feasible. And so, I unearth it from its time capsule to share with you.
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Bundle contacted me to be a part of something interesting: creating a series of infographics to showcase the annual spending of 2009. Each major category was given to a designer/artist and let free to do as they will. The amount of data we had to play with was immense, choosing what information to display was as creative as how it was displayed (if you’re a data nerd, anyway). So far, two have run (Overall by Stefanie Posavec and Getting Around by Nicholas Felton) and now mine, Travel & Leisure, split into four different groups.
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