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Halfway To Friday: 5 Sites To See.

kpotis — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:33:58 +0000

1. I Love This Site! Chart Your Day Online. (Daytum)

2. The Evolution of 50 Classic Logos (Best Ad)

3. Interviews with 3 Old School In-housers (Conncreatives)

4. Shoot Your Alarm Clock, Literally (TokyoMango)

5. Half-Full: Points of View Shirt (DespairWear)

6 Great Finds For This Week

kpotis — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:34:39 +0000

1. New Steven Heller & Lita Talarico Book. The Design Entrepreneur (Core77)

2. Cool InDesign Trick: Align Guidelines with a Click (CreativeTech Labs)

3. Hungry Scientist: Nerdy Cookbook for Kitchen Hackers (boingboing)

4. The Missing Stage in the Digital Design Process (Digital Web Magazine)

5. Back to the Future: Check out “The Delorean” of Rubber Band Guns (Make)

6. Long-awaited Chicago Tribune Redesign (NewsDesigner)

The 5 Best Finds of the Week.

kpotis — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:27:48 +0000

1. Moustache Revival Month coming to an end. (RustyGeorge)

2. Amazing Site With 3D Navigation from Pentagram. (Pentagram)

3. FORE! New iPhone Golf Game Swings Into Action. Literally. (iSmashphone)

4. Street Corner Science Lessons with a Nobel Laureate (ScienCentral)

5. Thinking Bigger (Seth Godin)

The weeks best bloggings.

kpotis — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:16:09 +0000

From the people who brought you, “Hi. I’m a Mac”: “Hello again, I’m Vista” is Microsoft fighting back. And to see the “I can’t believe it’s not butter results” go here.

In the “kick ‘um while they’re down” category, BusinessWeek’s Bruce Nussbaum has some things to say about Starbucks.

On a related note: I hear Starbuck’s Marketing and Design departments were hit hard with the latest round of layoffs. We feel for you, our inhouse brothers and sisters.

Go deep on your iPhone: 12 iPhone Tricks You Might Not Have Known

Google goes for gold, sliver and bronze: Google has Olympic fever.

Prepare to be inspired: The Top 10 Catalyst for Great Ideas

Very cool, picture perfect mock-up: Prototype Packaging using Photoshop Smart Objects.

What did you think? (leave a comment or email me)

Stops time. Freeze Ray. Tell your friends.

kpotis — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:56:13 +0000

I sometimes will eat my dessert first, before dinner, in case I’m too full afterward. Probably not the healthiest eating choice I can make, but at least I don’t miss out on my sugar-fix.

I feel compelled to share, what may be old news to some of you, the brilliant Dr Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. I know I should be discussing the chore of being creative in a corporate environment, working under tight timelines, with minimal budgets, but I can’t help but share this 42:26 of pure, unadulterated perfection. So please, go forth and be inspired, and we’ll get back to work stuff soon. Now, I need to go work on my evil laugh.

And if you haven’t seen it, Lifehacker has an great little exclusive interview with Felicia Day (love interest Penny).

What inspires you? (leave a comment or email me)

Naming This Blog

kpotis — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 19:52:50 +0000

Image from Baby Name Wizard.

I love options and hate to rule any out until I need to.

I’ve been thinking about creating this blog for a long time. And along the way collecting urls in my Google Doc. I have 50+ urls, eight of which are for this blog alone. I’ve looked into DontLetTheBastardsGetYouDown.com (taken), NotaCorporateTool.com (available), to InHouseDesigner.com (taken) and InhouseDesignAdvocate.com (available).

The site is for writers, designers, and even those wacky video people, who do thier work within the calls of a company, corporation, government, or school. And so, I whimped out calling it something too controversial for fear of spam filters, overzealous IT departments and that lurking department manager.

In the end, I narrowed it down to these three urls:
TheCompanyCreative.com
CreativesInACorporateWorld.com
and TheInHouseCreative.com.

Oh, and if you’re looking for UglyOnAnApe.com or StinkOnaMonkey.com, they’re taken…

I would really love your comments. (leave a comment or email me)