What's Your Brand U.0?

Tracking Buzz in Real Time

“Lewis and Clark were lost most of the time. If your idea of...”
— Nathan Myhrvold

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13 Essential Typefaces

Be a Photoshop Hero

Nothing Sells Like Celebrity

“The big mistake people make is that they believe advertising...”
— Travis Norris, Creative...

Why FriendFeed (or Its Successor) Could Be...

“On average, five times as many people read the headlines as...”
— David Ogilvy, Ogilvy on...

“The old marketing funnel, in which the goal was to achieve...”
— Marsha Lindsay, Build Your...

“Branding is about getting your prospects to perceive you as...”
— Rob Frankel, A Practical Guide...

“A wise mentor told me early on in my marketing career that...”
— Kenneth Gronbach, AdAge, The 6...

“[The best ideas] are simple, core messages; they are...”
— Chip Heath, Author Made to...

Web Creme

How to Be Silicon Valley

Getting Creative With Transparency in Web...

“Some brands create emotional connections with consumers,...”
— Marc Gobé

It seems that a lot of people, myself included, have been...

Good Designers vs. Great Designers

McCann, T.A.G. Win Grandy Award

“We’ve consistently found that investments in the total user...”
— Jared Spool

What Branding Isn't

Recently one of my friends, Christina of Branding Brand, was quoted in a Pittsburgh Business Times...

Five Simple Steps to Better Typography

Starbucks logo goes retro!

Grids are Good

Originality in Web Design

Webby Award Nominees for 2008

What were they thinking? Let me take a shot at it: Hey, I...

Design in the 2008 Campaign

My friend Nina sent me this article yesterday on the design of the Obama campaign. I was a little...

The Design Police

Make My Logo Bigger Cream

TheDieline.com

CSS Gradient Text Effect

How to Size Text in CSS

15 Excellent Examples of Web Typography

More Superbowl

Looking through Creativity today reminded me to write more on the Super Bowl.  “And...

Creativity

The History of Apple Ads

Superbowl 2008 in Review

I’ll be writing more on this topic but for now I wanted to show an example of a great...

Excellence in Advertising

I realize that putting an Apple ad up here isn’t exactly the most original thing I can do, but...

Why Design Matters, Too

Let’s face it, startup founders have their hands full with a multitude of issues, large and small....

Yeah, Pittsburgh is great, but...

I’m 24 and, though originally from New York, proud to call Pittsburgh my hometown. I’m a...