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    Monocle Smile

    Marc Acosta

    Old Spice

    A social media strategy is almost a requirement at this point for any commercial brand. For most, the common combination of a Twitter and Facebook account fed with frequent posts is usually enough. With every tweet your followers are reminded of your existence, and if you are lucky enough, they may even click through to any links you provide. But harnessing the power of social media in a carefully orchestrated campaign utilizing all the major platforms? That’s an entirely different proposition – and quite a feat if it can be pulled off. Despite the challenge, that’s exactly what the creative team behind Old Spice did.

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    Cyber monday everyday

    Marc Acosta

    mobile shopping

    Black Friday & Cyber Monday may have come and gone but the spending season has just begun and if you have an iPhone, as nightmarish as it may seem, every minute of every day can be Cyber WhateverDay. More

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    Movin’ on up

    Marc Acosta

    We may have only moved up one floor but a lot has changed. We tried to document as much of the design and construction process as we could and created a video to share with you. Check it out… More

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    A dark cloud on the horizon

    Marc Acosta

    A dark cloud on the horizon

    The relentless commercials for remote backup almost had me convinced to retire my arcane system of external usb drives and cases of DVDs on my bookshelf. Then a couple of weeks ago that little bit of doubt I was feeling became a reality for users of the T-Mobile Sidekick when a server failure at Microsoft’s Danger division left them holding a dataless hunk of plastic. Sidekicks rely on the servers at Danger to store things like contacts, photographs, notes, to-do-lists and other important user data. Sidekick users could do little but wait for Microsoft to restore the data. The interruption was so bad that T-Mobile temporarily stopped selling Sidekicks.

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    Introducing… Verdana?

    Marc Acosta

    Introducing... Verdana?

    The outrage has been amusing to say the least and the vehicles for protest are the usual suspects: blog postings, twitter updates – even petitions … no we’re not talking about health care… we’re talking about something much more serious – typefaces! Specifically, Ikea’s recent decision to switch from using Futura, a classic typeface that they have successfully used for 50 years, to Verdana, a font designed for Microsoft back in 1996. More

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    Designing with CSS3

    Marc Acosta

    Designing With CSS3

    Although CSS3 is still officially in the works, the recent releases of Safari and Firefox have given us a few new CSS tools to experiment with. Designers may specifically be interested in the following features that accomplish with a few lines of code, things that we would normally do with graphics. More

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    A question of mobility

    Marc Acosta

    websites - eat here or to go

    With the recent release of the iPhone 3GS and Palm Pre, the lure to take your site mobile will be stronger than ever—but should you? More

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