Toss your Prius. Get a Puffin!
New, all-electric personal air transporter from NASA. I want one!
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I love Wordle
Wordle.net makes the nicest word clouds. Here’s one from this blog (it must have been reading from a couple of posts ago.) Look at the way the letterforms fit into […]
It’s a small world. Better pronounce things right.
After seeing the photo in the LA Times this morning of Robert Downey, Jr. and Guy Ritchie sporting their three-piece tweeds, my wife Patricia and I found we disagreed about […]
19th Century engravings come to life
The new Ramona Falls video “I Say Fever” from Barsuk Records is amazingly well done. Check out all the subtle attention to detail in the movements, eye blinks, cigarettes dangling. […]
Consumers buy products, not packaging…maybe.
For some manufacturers, research indicates that consumers don’t pick a product on the basis of who makes it. Instead, they are swayed almost entirely by the design of the product itself. Why should those companies worry about branding then?
Stalking Caribou into dangerous territory
Caribou Coffee is out to mock Starbucks customers as a way of building its business. But if you don’t have the antlers, perhaps it’s best not to go head to head with the biggest, strongest buck in the herd.
Our new site for OPI is live!
As part of a comprehensive rebranding program, OPI’s new site had to strike a balance between the high level of professionalism required when one company is trusting its most sensitive financial data to another — and the warm personal relationships that are necessary for insightful partnerships to develop.
Green opportunities all weekend
The Opportunity Green conference at UCLA is place where business leaders can meet to learn the latest on sustainability and see what their peers are up to. A truly fascinating weekend.
Karito Kids Reach Out to Southeast Asia
We are incredibly lucky to have so many clients who do amazing things for the world. Some raise money for women’s cancers. Others provide education, housing and support for developmentally […]
World War Green
My theory of the day: Going green is the next World War II. It looks to me like global warming will be the huge economic push that will get the […]