The making of Old Spice's commercial: The Man Your Man Could Smell Like

Awesome.

Life Below 600px

Fun presentation here presenting an argument against the "above the fold" concept in web design.

5 Things FedEx Has Learned about Managing Relationships through Social Media

Ninety-six percent of Gen Y has joined social networks. Nearly half of Internet users read a blog at least once a month. More than six in ten small businesses use social networks to answer customer questions. Read on...

Ultra Grip Glove

2 more after the jump...

Why design can't be billed by the hour...

“But it will only take you an hour or so . . .” I hear this comment a few times a year — a client is unclear as to why I won’t simply charge them by the hour, sometimes by fifteen-minute increments. I can sympathize. Read on...

Solar charger fer yer iPhone

File under very cool.

The hierarchy of digital distractions...

Nutshell Mail

New tool for allows for more social media overload.

Denver Mountain Parks Brochure

Great work via Barnhart.

Robaash

Happy Holidays.

2009 Year-End Google Zeitgeist

To compile the 2009 Year-End Zeitgeist, we studied the aggregation of billions of queries people typed into Google search this year. We use data from multiple sources, including Insights for Search, Google Trends and internal data tools. We also filter out spam and repeat queries to build out lists that best reflect "the spirit of the times." All of the search queries we studied are anonymous—no personal information was used.

Arts & Crafts

Justin painstakingly constructed these two characters out of aluminum foil & modeling-clay. Both puppets were built with internal controls for facial control. Awesome handicraft work!

New Toyota Hybrid Synergy Drive

UNICEF: Landmine

Love this.

True that

This write-up made me laugh, so true in this day and age...

"A memo went out to one of our clients last week that read more like a text message than a professional letter. You know what it looked like: Every third word was abbreviated, as though it was written on the run, from a cellphone. I was appalled, and could only imagine what the client must think: If we are writing to them in such a casual way, what else is being executed casually?" Read on...

The Ad industry needs to...

Fantastic...

"As follow up to a post he wrote on his blog about the good old days of advertising, George Parker followed up writing, "Apart from a stroll down memory lane and reminisces about great bars and restaurants, many of which no longer exist, the big question raised was, was the work better, and did we have more fun doing it? Yes, I think the work was better, and I know that will raise a shitstorm from" Read on...

Advertising in 2009

Keming

Get personal

Short bit here from Though Gadgets. Imagine the positive impact if every company adopted this approach of conversation with their audience.

"Digital strategist Jordan Julien got us thinking about "synthetic authenticity," the risk large corporations face as they try to engage customers in social media. The problem, Jordan says, is social media tools were built for individual people to interact with each other, but suddenly faceless entities -- big brands with big names -- are entering the space."

Transparency Begins at Home

Progressive thinking here from agency head Darryl Ohrt,

"You're blogging about your agency. Tweeting about minutia. Pitching transparency to your clients left and right. But how transparent are you, really?

We've been operating under an open book and open management philosophy at our agency for more than a decade, and it's one of the greatest policies that we ever created."