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  • Girls, Guns, Grills

    October 20th, 2011 / Comments (0)

    The Blacktop Party Hub 360 Grill-Fryer makes your grill look weak for tailgating. This commercial makes your grill look even weaker. The URL listed in the YouTube description pushes you to Blacktop Party Hub 360 Grill-Fryer's Facebook page — where they're giving away 50 of these bad boys for free. Agency: Super Top Secret, Salt Lake City.

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  • Van's Banner Ad Carries Files Across the Web

    October 20th, 2011 / Comments (0)

    To promote the Opel Movano van's storage capability, McCannLowe created a banner that is both useful and innovative. Working like websites such as YouSendIt or WeTransfer, the banner allows viewers to upload up to a 2 gig file in the rear of the van and send it to someone across the web — who then receives an email to download the file and learn about the Opel Movano.

  • Spike Jonze: Mourir Auprès de Toi (To Die By Your Side)

    October 18th, 2011 / Comments (0)

    Designer Olympia Le-Tan's embroidered clutch-bags spring to life in director Spike Jonze’s tragicomic stop-motion animation Mourir Auprès de Toi (To Die By Your Side). Nowness interviewed Spike about the piece.

    Spike Jonze: Mourir Auprès de Toi on Nowness.com.

  • Booktrack

    October 17th, 2011 / Comments (0)

    Booktrack is a new technology that synchronizes a customized soundtrack of ambient audio, music and sound effects to written text to create an immersive entertainment experience (ie. to block out all that shit happening around you when you want to read a book).

  • Bug Circus Powers Up the New Snapdragon Phone

    October 13th, 2011 / Comments (0)

    This has got to be the most creative way in history to show that it's easy to power up a phone's battery. Great way to take a boring feature and make an interesting ad from it.

  • Now Hiring: Interactive Designer - Earth911, Inc.

    October 11th, 2011 / Comments (0)

    Earth911, Inc., Scottsdale is hiring: Interactive Designer. Please Note: You must become a member to see jobs posted within the last three days.

  • Adobe Workshop Event This Weekend

    August 9th, 2011 / Comments (0)

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    AIGA Arizona is presenting Adobe Creative Suite 5.5: Hidden Gems, a four-hour workshop offering  tips and tricks for working faster or incorporating new creative techniques within the Creative Suite.

    Some of the features that will be covered include:

    - Saving time with Adobe Acrobat Pro
    - Creating realistic painting effects with Photoshop Extended
    - Experiencing fluid vector painting with Illustrator
    - Easy 3D extrusions with Adobe Repoussé in Photoshop Extended
    - Discover Content-Aware Fill in Photoshop Extended
    - Beautiful strokes with Illustrator
    - Simplified object selection and editing in InDesign

    The event will be held on at 10 AM in Tempe on Saturday, August 13 at ASU and in Tucson on Sunday, August 14 at Southwest University.

    The event is free to members and $40 to the public. For more details and registration information, visit http://arizona.aiga.org/events.

    AIGA, the professional association for design, is committed to advancing design as a professional craft, strategic tool and vital cultural force. Formed in 1989, the Arizona chapter serves the graphic design community and those in related fields within the state of Arizona, and augments the activities of the national AIGA.

  • Nokia Creates The Worlds Largest Stop Motion Animation: "Gulp"

    August 3rd, 2011 / Comments (0)

    Shot on location at Pendine Beach in South Wales, every frame of this stop-motion animation was shot using a Nokia N8, with its 12 megapixel camera and Carl Zeiss optics. The film has broken a world record for the 'largest stop-motion animation set', with the largest scene stretching over 11,000 square feet.

    Gulp. The world's largest stop-motion animation shot on a Nokia N8. from Nokia HD on Vimeo.

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