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  • ARCHIVE / May, 2008
  • the threadless model

    Unquestionably great, but is it the future?
    The guys behind Threadless — the community-driven t-shirt design site — have been profiled in a cover story for Inc. magazine. The general sentiment: that Threadless is on the vanguard of a movement that will fundamentally change the way businesses operate and, ultimately, thrive.
    Maybe.
    If we’re talking about the [...]

    Posted on May 28.08 to business, culture, customer relations, marketing, social media, technology   2 Comments   

  • continued: baltimore branding history

    A hundred-plus years ago, convincing was a vastly different art.
    Since putting up that last post I’ve been digging around in various digital archives, on the make for further insight into Baltimore history. In particular I’ve been looking at items related to the Poole & Hunt company, an iron work foundry that operated here in the [...]

    Posted on May 19.08 to advertising, baltimore, culture, typography, writing   2 Comments   

  • rebranding baltimore

    We’ve tried for years to explain our fair city. The answer was here all along.

    Baltimore has long been searching for the right tagline.
    Back in the day we tried The City That Reads, which has to stand as the strangest city motto of all time (the fact that it was easily manipulated into “The City That [...]

    Posted on May 15.08 to advertising, business, communications, culture, identity, image, marketing, writing   5 Comments   

  • interviewed by a big, shiny robot

    Wherein I catch everyone up on the state of my work in comics (and probably ruffle a few feathers along the way).
    It’s been awhile since my last book (Borrowed Time, Volume Two) came out, but I’m still kicking around in the comics industry. And I plan to keep doing that for a long time — [...]

    Posted on May 14.08 to comics, culture, digital media, illustration, misc, slant six news, writing   Add a Comment   

  • past is prologue

    While cleaning out the memory card in my camera today, I found this…

    (click pic for larger version, or click here for a variety of sizes)
    I’m into this photo for a couple of reasons. I think it’s a pretty nice shot, but more importantly I like it because it says “don’t let the bastards get you [...]

    Posted on May 12.08 to misc, photography   1 Comment   

  • deleting the gatekeepers

    Or, what to do when signal becomes noise.
    When I first discovered RSS feeds a couple of years ago, my initial reaction was “so?” The technology seemed daunting.
    Once I got it, though, I seriously got it, and before long my reader swelled to well over fifty feeds. I was getting constant updates on everything that [...]

    Posted on May 05.08 to communications, culture, digital media, misc, social media, technology   3 Comments   

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