Design

Avoiding a Business Card Hiccup

October 19, 2008 Brickfish

Last week I met up with my old colleagues at a Happy Hour 2.0 in La Jolla. It was the perfect opportunity to catch up with them since I recently started a new job and to mingle with other marketers, developers, and other web people. The only drawback was that I didn’t have my new [...]

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Design the New 20SB Header Contest

July 15, 2008 Blogging

Attention all twenty something bloggers, now is your chance to leave a lasting impression on the Twenty Something Bloggers (20SB) community. The Admins want you to create a one of a kind header to represent our social network. You can start from scratch, use Wordle as a background, or incorporate the 20SB badge in your [...]

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World of Wordle

July 12, 2008 Blogging

Wordle lets you create “word clouds” from an RSS feed, a del.ici.ous username, or you can paste in a bunch of text to generate you word cloud. Once you have the text all set, you can tweak your word cloud with different layouts, fonts, and color schemes. And because images created by the Wordle application [...]

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Brickfish Gas Card Design

July 4, 2008 Brickfish

This has to be my favorite Brickfish campaign simply because it’s easy to enter and the prizes are fantastic! Who doesn’t want a $500 gas card? Check out the prizes listed below but don’t forget to read the complete rules, regulations, and legal notice: Grand Prize: One winner, selected from the top 100 highest scoring [...]

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Capital One Wants to Get Personal

June 20, 2008 Brands

I stumbled across Kristen Nicole’s article on Mashable titled, “Use Flickr for Custom Capital One Cards” and thought it was a great campaign for several personal reasons. First, Capital One makes it simple to create a personalized credit card. I already have a Capital One card but now I can select a photo that’s already [...]

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The Mysterious Mr. X Design Challenge Part Deux

June 11, 2008 Brickfish

I know shameless plug… but I’m seriously floored by the quality of entries in Mr. X’s Design Challenge. Who knew so many people were into vintage rock posters? This is the second design challenge sponsored by Mr. X and he has 7 more challenges lined up until January 2009. Check out his other campaigns here.

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