Archive for the ‘On The Fly’ category

How Millennials Think

How millennials think–and what they really want from businesses–might be different than your current advertising and/or product development approach. Why care so much about this group? By 2018, they’ll outearn boomers, and by 2025 they’ll make up 75% of the workforce. Read the results of… Continue reading…

The Living Room Candidate – Political Ad Archive

During an election cycle, political ads are often seen as an annoyance, but a few years or decades removed from the election they were meant to influence and they become engrossing studies in the power of the medium, especially when examined in the context of their role in the ultimate outcome of the election. Continue reading…

This Exquisite Forest

This Exquisite Forest is an web-based collaborative art project that lets users create short animations that build off one another by following a few minimal guidelines. The result is a collection of branching narratives resembling trees. Visitors can not only watch the animations, but also contribute to the project, which will eventually be installed… Continue reading…

Would You Buy A PC Made Out Of Cardboard?

A company called Recompute is selling a computer in a cardboard case. It doesn’t seem all that great at first, but when you learn about the low impact manufacturing and recycling process and the structural advantages of cardboard, it starts to get pretty intriguing. They look cool, too. Find out more at Continue reading…

Measuring the Universe

A very cool educational animation from Royal Observatory Greenwich on the different methods scientists use to determine how far away we are from objects in the Universe. After watching the video you’ll be able to use terms like parallax, red shift, and standard candles to impress your friends!

Tech-based Travel Info and Smart Phone Role

Smart phones are more and more influencing how people travel, how they access information, when they do and are becoming integral to reaching visitors before they come (in the planning cycle), while they are here (in the local spending cycle) and post the vacation (influential reviews). Look at… Continue reading…

Best Campaign of 2011 Goes To (drum roll please wait for it)

After careful review and consideration, pouring over hours of portfolio items from 2011, we have come to a consensus (in a landslide) that the Community Credit Union REMIX campaign is by far the best of the year. The REMIX campaign for Community Credit Union of Florida has an “indie” vibe, a… Continue reading…

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The Art of Photo Engraving

Computers and printing technology have made it easy for anyone to create something and print out copies of it. Even in the past twenty years, we’ve seen the design-to-print process simplify dramatically. In a post at CreativePro.com, they’ve collected some pages from a 1929 book entitled “The Art of Photo Engraving,” which feature… Continue reading…

9000 Channels And Nothing On

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How many TV channels do you think there are in the world? There’s gotta be at least a couple hundred, right? Well USTelevision.com has collected at least 9000 TV channel logos (feel free to give us an exact number) available for your perusal here…. Continue reading…