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PrizeLogic Launches Subway Promotion
Our promotions team just launched a new promotion for Subway:
Great Moments with Clients
Yesterday, a client told me they would send over what their website looked like. Assuming they meant a link or a jpeg, I was surprised to receive a PDF scan of a print out of their website.
On a subsequent call, the client said, “I realize this call-out is one-third of the page, but is there any way we can make it larger and more prominent?”
Chimp Turnout Low at the ‘09 Superbowl
At final count, I only saw 7 chimps (in Castrol ad) and 1 monkey (Doritos). I was anticipating this chimp-focused ad in the fourth quarter, but this just didn’t make it in:
Jack-in-the-Box Loses Out During Super Bowl
This is not what Jack-in-the-Box wanted you to see when they dropped 3 million on a Super Bowl Ad with a URL call-to-action. Hangintherejack.com could have used a decent load balanced server as Super Bowl traffic overwhelmed the site and rendered this page:
Decent ad, poor server.
Watch the 2009 Super Bowl Ads
So far, I’m digging anything involving people getting hurt and, of course, chimps.
Halloween 2008
Better late than never, but I’m finishing up my Halloween costume for 2008 tonight. Will post pictures soon.
I got into the holiday spirit with this carving earlier this week. I’ve refrigerated and coated the openings with petroleum jelly, and it’s holding up nicely:
Why America is…
Excuse the language in this video, but I love what Aaron Draplin has to say about design:
I’ve had two projects this past year based in 50s/60s/70s signage. I uploaded some of my favorite signs I’ve used for research here:
Was Plinko Rigged?
It seems that our recent trip to the Price is Right made some waves with TMZ and ET:
http://www.etonline.com/news/2008/08/64081/index.html
The kind staff at the Price is Right helped us rig the Plinko machine for the video game commercial shoot. Unfortunately, someone removed the note labeled “This game is rigged” and pushed the game out for a shoot. Three chip drops and $30,000 dollars later they figured out the mistake. For those of you wishing to start rumors about rigged games, it is fairly obvious if Plinko is rigged – the chip occasionally “slides” along fishing line instead of bouncing.
The Plinko game on the official site is not rigged (shameless plug for the site):
http://www.thepriceisrightvideogame.com/
Agency Blog Design
I’m in the process of creating our agency-standard blog format for several internal clients. The blog example below is a generic structure at this point as we will be skinning it for multiple clients. After creating and viewing several hundred blogs, I wanted to develop a hierarchical structure that separated blog entries from side content. The web-safe typographic system is simple and can be applied across multiple brands.
In progress design:
Creative Resources – Browser Templates
Interactive agencies often frame web creative in a browser or e-mail window for presentations or portfolios. Until recently, I haven’t saved my blank Photoshop templates of browser windows. I’ve finally included them here for download in common resolutions. These are blank templates ready for you to place web creative in:
Internet Explorer Brower/Outlook E-mail Templates (PSDs):
800×600 IE – Maximized
1024×768 IE – Maximixed
1280×1024 IE – Maximized
Popup – With Scrollbar
Popup – No Scrollbar
Outlook Express – E-mail template
Safari Browser Templates (PSDs):
Because the Apple OS doesn’t maximize windows, browser windows can often be scaled to any size. Resize these as needed.
Safari – Popup
Safari – Browser, no scroll
Safari – Browser, scroll