Archive for the ‘On The Fly’ category

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… Continue reading…

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

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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… 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 Continue reading…

Designer Fashion For You, Your Baby, and…Your Stroller?

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Luxury baby mobility company, Bugaboo, has teamed up with Italian fashion house, Missoni, to develop some pretty eye-catching limited-edition products. This isn’t the first designer partnership for Bugaboo. They’ve previously teamed up with names like Marc Jacobs and Paul Frank. Last month,… Continue reading…

The Hourglass

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  The Hourglass from Ikepod on Vimeo. Marc Newson’s latest creation for Ikepod sees the Australian designer interpret the most iconic timepiece of all: The Hourglass. Director Philip Andelman traveled to Basel, Switzerland, to document the designer’s modern take of the classic hourglass… Continue reading…

Tree of Codes

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Tree of Codes is a work of liberature (no, that’s not a typo. Click the link to learn more.) by Jonathan Safran Foer. Requiring a unique die-cut for each page, the book discovers a new three-dimensional story by subtracting from Bruno Schulz’s The Street of Crocodiles. Check out these… Continue reading…

5 Minute Candles

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Ingenuity comes in many packages. Designed to look like a book of matches, each book holds 10 small candles that can be lit while still in the “matchbook” for an instant birthday party without the cake. Or be a traditionalist, break them off and put them on the cake. One pack equals 4 books: pink,… Continue reading…

Florida court rules against debt-collection efforts on social media

A Florida court has ruled that a debt collector cannot use social networks to contact a debtor or her contacts. The plaintiff said MarkOne Financial representatives used Facebook to contact her friends as part of a larger campaign to get her to pay her bills; her harassment suit against MarkOne is still pending. “It’s dangerous… Continue reading…