Flash No More

Barbairan Group, Fantasy Interactive, Huge, Big Spaceship, R/GA and Organic all have non-flash sites.
Why isn’t Flash the best platform for an interactive agency to present their work? If you look around these days it seems that all of the leading interactive agencies (from my perspective in NYC) are switching over their Flash sites to rich-but-not-flash…

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Stamen Design Continues to Impress

Just stumbled upon this article from Ad Age and found the SF MOMA Art Scope project Stamen Design did:

Stamen keeps impressing with the narratives they’re able to put together by visualizing and manipulating data in new, interesting and engaging ways.

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Holy Mother of Recap

When going to a trade-show it’s natural to feel hyped about the products on display. Every car show I go to I leave convinced that now is the right time to buy that 2-seater I’ve always wanted – but it never is – it’s just the hype. Trade shows have been honing the craft of…

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Preventing Future Beach-balls

“Shit the beach-ball!” I exclaimed. “I ‘got it too”, I heard from across the studio.
We might as well brew a pot of coffee – we’ll be here a while.
Adobe has made great strides in recent years to eliminate application crashes in their Mac suite of applications. Remember running CS/CS2 in Rosetta and Illustrator simply shutting…

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I’m In This Book

Although I’m not attributed :-/ Season of Surprises is on p.286

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Fresh Dialogue 24

FRIDAY 23 MAY 2008 6:30–9:00PM
IN/VISIBLE: Graphic Data Revealed
Fresh Dialogue 24
 

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This is Not a Manifesto

The problem with advertising is that it’s only goal is to get in my way – to act as an obstruction between me and the media I want. Probably because Ad Agencies know by doing that I have to pay attention to their ads. If advertising had a human age and development level it’d be…

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