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  • The Toll of Drug Abuse

    March 15th, 2011 / Comments (0)

    To all the surrounding counties of St. Louis and down in to the boot heel of Missouri, a little PSA from your friends at the Egotist. Check out these before and after mugshots of drug users to help you reconsider that meth habit you've been considering. Drugs are bad, 'mkay?

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  • "Amazing Things Will Happen" (Conan O'Brien's Farewell) - Kinetic Type

    March 15th, 2011 / Comments (0)

    Very nice use of kinetic typography and motion graphics set to Conan O'Brien's farewell speech on The Tonight Show, and even better use of student talent.

    Video and slight motion sickness courtesy of Oklahoma State University student Jacob Gilbreath. We thank him for both.

    Conan O'Brien Kinetic Typography from Jacob Gilbreath on Vimeo.

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  • Threadless Causes Launches Japan & Pacific Relief T-Shirt Challenge

    March 14th, 2011 / Comments (0)

    Threadless Causes, a direct partnership between Threadless and non-profit partners in which t-shirts are designed for causes and a portion of profits donated to them, has launched a new cause to help the Japanese quake relief effort. Help here by putting your design skills to good use.

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  • Men's Health Gives St. Louis a B in Social Networking

    March 14th, 2011 / Comments (1)

    Men's Health went looking for America's Most Socially Networked City.

    We started by calculating the number of Facebook and LinkedIn users per capita, followed by overall Twitter usage (NetProspex). Then we looked at traffic generated by the major social networks, including Myspace, Friendster, Reddit, and Digg (analyzed by ad network Chitika). Finally, after factoring in the percentage of households that check out chat rooms and blogs (SimplyMap), we had the results you see in the list.

    St. Louis faired decently at 24 out of 100 with a 'B' rating.


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  • Help Japan

    March 14th, 2011 / Comments (0)

    We're hoping more copies of James White's poster will become available. All profits go to the disaster relief effort.

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    Check out another notable social media earthquake relief effort here.

  • Take a Moment for Japan

    March 11th, 2011 / Comments (0)

    It's hard to think of the latest advertising & creative news when you have the active realization that people are in peril and trouble on the other side of the world. Suffering & pain are a real part of life that most of us have the luxury of not experiencing very often. Some experience it much more often than others. But right now, people in Japan are in the midst of terrible turmoil as a result of the incredible chaos that nature can bring.

    Take a moment in the midst of your meetings, mocha frappes, and endless daily minutiae to put yourselves in the shoes of someone less fortunate. You don't have to tweet about it with some stupid hashtag, just give some thoughts and prayers to the hundreds who have recently passed or are missing...

  • Letterpress on your iPad

    March 10th, 2011 / Comments (0)

    LetterMpress is a will be a virtual letterpress environment (application), released first on the iPad that will allow anyone to create authentic-looking letterpress designs and prints. The creators intend to introduce a service where a user can have their LetterMpress designs turned into authentic letterpress prints. They are hoping creatives will donate some coin to the cause and help make this happen. Peeps that donate $10 bucks or more receive a promo-code to download the app (when released), a print press thank you card and your name on their site. Though nothing can really capture the raw awesomeness and magical process of the real thing, this is a good step forward.

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  • Kronos: Celebrating Working Women - @Xplane

    March 9th, 2011 / Comments (1)

    Created for International Women's Day 2011 (yesterday). This looks like a lot of work; longish but satisfying and informative.

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