Our Blog

• Phone and tablets before and after Apple
• The rules and ethics to successful email marketing
• Red Blooded Field Notes Video
• Amusing 5 year old's impressions of brands
• Trunk Club: Men's Outfitters or men's heaven?
• SwitchCam.com - event videos assembled by crowdsourced footage
• YouTube equals one hour of video uploaded per second
• Design Seeds Color Palette Inspiration
• cause/effect: Good Design for a Good Cause
• Fotoshop by Adobe
• Universal Studios celebrates 100 years
• Using multiple social networks is exhausting
• Pinterest has got me interested
• Persuasive Jedi Mind Tricks
• Beer Packaging Design
• If one of your New Year resolutions was to get organized, then try Workflowy.com
• 2012 the year of Tangerine Tango
• What makes an ideal design client?
• How we're building our virtual office capabilities
• Apple's Siri frustrates me but leaves me wanting more
• Thumpety thump thump, look at Frosty GROW.
• Can you trademark a Nurdle?
• Sugru. Sugr'me! It's moldable, curable silicon that's useful and fun to play with
• Apple is Getting a New Campus
• Little Printer. Awfully Cute, But A Little Behind The Times
• Incredible gifts by Incredible Things
• It's All About Protecting the Brand
• A website about corporate identities
• Zombie Kittens - Meow Meow
• The new Barbie Doll that's stirring up controversy
• Goodbye Steve
• 100 Years of Fashion Commerical - it's awesome
• The Behance Network is proven effective!
• Redesigning The Nutrition Label
• Telescope marketing: a TV's way of telling us we're in the future
• Earthquake Rocks jldcreative
• Kim Kardashian sues Old Navy, protecting the rights to her appearance
• Vitamin Water Video/Ad is Stupid
• Recession marketing - or marketing during tough times
• Google+ it'll get better
• Minimal, yet graphically interesting Marvel posters
• Does anyone read design magazines anymore?
• Graphic icons of everything at The Noun Project
• Living In A Zombie Infested World
• Street Art
• Stop the Above The Fold Web Design Insanity - People Scroll Today!!!!!
• The campaign, I Am Here, effectively takes a homeless man off the streets
• It's getting harder and harder to stay social with social media
• The world of tomorrow or living in the cloud
• New Photography Technology called Lytro
• Marketing is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration
• Will Google Plus knock Facebook out of the ring?
• Honest Logos on Creative Dusk
• Logo Trends 2011 From Logo Lounge
• Four hundred blog posts!!
• Cool technology magic with magician Marco Tempest
• New York CIty Captured Through Stop Motion Photography
• Our secret ingredient - Soylent Green
• Learn how to unleash your creativity with John Cleese
• Remember to backup or the story of how I rescued the files from my wife's MacBook Air
• I Love David Thorne
• Melbourne, Australia identifies as a modern and dynamic city through their new brand
• Creative Use of Typography to Send a Positive Message
• Zombie Proof House
• Web-entrepreneur buzzword craziness from College Humor
• Has marketing towards children become unethical?
• The importance of mentors in business
• Brainstorming - Pushing your brain to it's full potential
• An Excellent QR Code Use
• Merchandising going royal wedding crazy
• Social Buying sites - giving you the best deals around
• Adzookie Offers a Way to Pay the Mortgage
• How to price your product for retail, distributor, and direct to consumer sales
• How much will a new website design cost?
• Your business can succeed - just follow the website rules
• What design students should be studying
• Google Discovers the Latest and Greatest Technology
• Cell Phone Companies and Location Tracking
• Open source CMS system or custom built, standards-compliant CMS - which is better?
• Photo Searching/Sourcing Awsomeness
• The Newest Old Thing on the Web: Kinetic Typography
• New Balance: Running Green visual experiment from start to finish
• Blogging for small business success - five reasons to blog
• The Art of Business Card Design
• Marketing your business through social networking
• Mini focus group testing for all with GutCheck online
• Get creative with HandMadeFonts
• Enhance your website or ecommerce with online chat solutions
• Spreading the word for a good cause (with TOMS shoes)
• Placekitten.com is cute and useful
• Do you need Trust Icons on your ecommerce site?
• PHD Video Controversy
• Can Gaming be good for you?
• Tips to make your small business successful - courtesy of LinkedIn
• I think I just found my new favorite site - Polyvore.com
• The worlds largest archive of superbowl commercials
• What do you doodle?
• I learned a silly lesson about my iPhone4 today
• Six small business marketing essentials you need: logo, website, brochure, customer profile, a plan, and a budget
• Get a kickstart on that project with Kickstarter
• Gain Commercial: Grammar Police Unite!
• Alright With the Snow Already!
• I didn't expect good packaging design from a Walmart brand
• Incandescents are here to stay, sort of....
• Don't throw out your old laptop...put it to good use with this DIY project
• Compare the US to Other Countries
• Design of the Decade shows design can change the world
• Is there a digital afterlife?
• A Different Way to Teach Yourself Adobe Photoshop
• Why is Comcast's onscreen guide user interface so awful?
• 2011 will be a Honeysuckle of a year according to Pantone
• They say there's an app for everything and I'm beginning to agree with them
• Intel The Chase Video
• Prius, Priuses, Pirii, Prium, or Prien?
• Canadian ad agency John St. and Arcade Fire plan Chelsea's birthday
• Starbucks Makeover: Win or Fail?
• It's a new year – don't get tied up in the same old marketing
• Luxuriate in Uncrate or Outblush
• The Kindle may lose the reader battle but win the format war
• The end of the year...all is calm....all is quiet
• Chilean Winers in honor of the Chilean miners
• The Christmas Nativity....social style
• Yahoo! Bus Stop Derby
• Creative Christmas Gift Wrap
• The Underbelly Project - NY's biggest secret
• One Week, Five Meals: dinner made easy
• 111 Gigapixel photo of Seville is record setting and absolutely stunning
• Typographic Maps
• Small businesses take notice - QR Codes are coming and if you don't know what they are - you will
• Neat Apple iPod Nano Idea
• How do I market my small business?
• When will Apple get its act together with MobileMe?
• Tom Tom stepped it up a notch - into a galaxy far far away
• Am I the only person left alive who prefers Blockbuster?
• Tangled Commercials
• Cyber Monday: great replacement for those who missed out on Black Friday
• Should a small business use social network marketing?
• The Info Graphics and Animations of Maps of War
• American Express helps small business recognize the value of branding and marketing
• NY not so loko about Four Loko
• The Beatles on iTunes
• Design tips for Powerpoint presentations
• WiFi could be everywhere - here's my idea
• Go on the Facebook friend diet
• Bored with Dummy Text?
• Surfing with camels and water slides in 28 states of India
• Last Minute Voter Research
• It's not Android vs iPhone. It's Android vs iOS.
• Mount Everest gets a cell phone tower
• How do you get your small business noticed?
• Hipsters dominate in today's society
• When design inspiration goes a bit too far...
• Daytum For Tracking Everyday Life
• Maki Web App
• New Reality TV: Politics
• Small business marketing - you might feel little, but you can do it big
• Pampers commercializing Facebook via Amazon?
• What will come after Facebook?
• Is GroupMe.com the magical son of text messaging and social networking?
• Artist Gennine D. Zlatkis brightens her life with animals and nature
• Missing You commercials get Team Coco fans pumped
• Recent growth in Hyundai sales results in a 9.3% rise in brand value since last year
• Why does Microsoft advertising generally suck?
• Business-driving, Flash-loving, App-rocking
• How to write a creative brief for your designer
• Furniture, Dogs & OK go = NEETO
• A Castle in the Making: Guedelon
• Web usability myths debunked by Six Revisions
• OK Go Lesson
• Yarn bombing: brings everyday drab surroundings to life
• Seven things to consider before marketing your small business or start up
• Will a junk food makeover for baby carrots influence how we eat?
• The William - coolest cook top ever!
• A passion for old calculators inspires a collector's online museum
• Philadelphia to levy tax on most Bloggers
• Dieter Rams still influences product design today
• WWII Visual History by Sergey Larenkov
• Beautiful Icelandic Architecture Brings Life to Mundane Necessities
• McDonald's website. I'm lovin' it.
• Eco entrepreneurs TerraCycle prevents 1000's of tons of waste from going to landfills.
• A Breastfeeding PSA that's close to my heart since as a new father I see the benefits
• Stickers, stickers, everywhere with StickerMule.com
• Typekit makes using traditional fonts in your web design easy
• Enticing commercials that never fail to grab my attention...
• Fur and Sandwiches: Does it work?: Quiznos TV ads featuring fur
• A glance at the new features of Adobe Creative Suite 5
• If you were asked to illustrate intoxication, would you be able to? Well, Alexandra Pacula can.
• If I ever make it to New Zealand...I'm eating pizza at Hell
• Microsoft Street Slide, coming to Bing Maps soon, may just one-up Google's Street View
• Play me I'm Yours Art Installation in New York
• Flipboard is a Pretty Cool App for Your iPad
• 8 Faces Magazine Launch
• Life in a Day - Film your documentary for Kevin Macdonald's documentary
• Ultraviolet - An industry DRM solution that's too little, too late
• HouseParty.com - Parties sponsored by a leading brand
• In honor of Mad Men Season 4 - some of Don's best pitches
• Will Old Spice Commercial and Viral Success Equal Increased Sales?
• A Pixar Short, Day and Night, Receives High Ratings
• Happy 4th of July Everyone - Muppet Style
• Woot announces their acquisition by Amazon with a rap video
• Google Latitude: Friend or Foe?
• A refrigeration technology company has found an interesting way to market their campaign
• What if Apple added the ability to export Android Apps to Xcode?
• Which javascript framework should you use? A designers perspective.
• Upset About the BP Oil Spill?
• What Motivates Us
• How is it that Tim Burton's dark, twisted work has brought light into our lives?
• I briefly switched from Firefox 3.6 to Safari 5 - I've switched back
• Capture: A WAVES Documentary
• Quark jumps the shark
• Musicovery: a twist on music-streaming
• You think Yo Gabba Gabba is strange....
• Anything Goes in the 80s
• How will Apple's new FaceTime affect social networking?
• 25 Years of Goonies
• 1981 - MTV's identity is born
• TripIt: The Online Travel Itinerary and Trip Planner
• Not Your Mothers Photoshop Tutorial
• Foursquare - a new social networking tool
• WordPress is an excellent blogging tool
• The history and future of portable computing – where will it end?
• I'm happy to see Pep Boys reemphasizing Manny, Moe & Jack in their marketing
• Five must-have apps for travel
• Ads That Capture Attention By Using Emotion
• Interesting Facts About Coca-Cola
• Neat Brainstorming Tool
• War of the big ''A's''
• Verisign raising .com and .net domain wholesale pricing – again.
• Still-life paintings by Alexa Meade? Nope...look again.
• Stumbled across an interesting question today....is SEO Dead?
• Two companies Apple should buy to make Mobileme.com better: Posterous.com and Dropbox.com
• Frito-Lays takes Eco-friendly action!
• Words With Friends Addiction
• Apple just released the updated Macbook Pro! Which one should I choose?
• Triscuit redesigns their packaging and by doing so catches my eye again
• Ten Days until the global launch of CS5!
• Decorating? Painting? Check out Color Psychology before making any rash decisions!
• We aren't too far from cyborg
• When will my bluetooth headset incorporate a camera?
• Photography, it's all angles according to Samsung
• Wait... So these Images AREN'T Photoshopped?
• Product Placement - Is it Really Effective?
• Pantone's Color of the Year Reflects (and influences) Trends
• Happy anniversary to our blog - Feb 28, 2010 equaled one year
• Do you call it Soda or Pop or Coke?
• Chat Roulette...Really?
• Tostitos Salsa Online Commercial
• Popular Science and Google collaborate to put all old issues online
• Did they do the old spice commercial in one shot?
• I'm an Olympic Junkie
• Just admit it
• CEO's go incognito
• Domino's Pizza: Brilliant, or Crazy?
• Too Many Choices!
• Mac OS X Sound Effect Song, Very Clever and Amusing
• Catch up on your z's!
• A Simple Solution To Today's Onerous, Lopsided Copyright, Trademark and Patent Law
• I'm a total Bookie
• Reality Killed the Video Star
• Bing Prepares For Vancouver
• Super Bowl Logos Through the Years
• Comcast Announces Xfinity
• My Excitement Awaits for Football! (but really the commercials)
• Throwback Pepsi - Available for a Limited Time Only (sadly)
• SEO dashes versus underscores: sometimes you learn things you would rather not know
• Ding Dong, IE6 is Dead!
• Retouch Fun
• Batteries Plus? Who needs a store dedicated to batteries? Turns out, I do!
• This is What Happens When You Have Stock Photo Credits that are About to Expire
• To-GoGurt!
• Posterous.com is a remarkable and simple blogging and social media tool!
• I Want a Big Ass Fan!
• New product and attractive new packaging for Wheaties Fuel cereal
• Decade at a Glance
• Oren Lavie Expresses Emotion with Stop Motion
• Announcing a future employee at jldcreative
• Corporate Identity: An Attraction Mechanism
• What Should Your New Year's Resolution Be?
• Bus Stop Envy
• Learn to Spell
• Could Spezify.com be the next Google?
• Hopping On Board the jldcreative Team
• Every Year, I get a Dilbert Calendar for Christmas
• Apple's rumored tablet Mac will probably be very cool and very useful
• Hard Working Flies
• Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanzaa, Festivus For The Rest Of Us, and Happy Holidays
• Recycle Your Old Office Equipment!
• File Conversion Made Simple Online at Zamzar.com
• Great Men Make Great Alcohol
• Creative for Causes
• Boom De Yada, Boom De Yada
• Victoria's Secret Michael Bay Commercial - Yeah or Nay?
• Artsy Video
• How is This Still News?
• Should I implement HTML 5 and CSS 3 in current web projects?
• Great Christmas Movies
• Algae Pontoons Helping Save the Environment
• Statistics can be jarring....
• Are You a Design Geek?
• Holiday Inn Rebranding - I Like it
• What's Your True North?
• Eco-Friendly Coke Can?
• Shame on you Adobe Bad Customer Service Is Inexcusable
• Great PowerPoint Inspiration
• The Joys and Sorrows of Being a Phillies Fan
• Happy Anniversary, Sesame Street!
• Get Out and Vote!
• What's a Drumthwacket?
• Will we continue to see great advertising from Apple?
• Eli, No!, Great Design, Great Children's Story
• Who Designed the MLB logo?
• WPA Prints: Forgotten Talent of the 1930's
• Cool Colors
• Can Forgetfulness be Rebellion?
• The Great Dalmuti
• Pumpkin Design!
• The Advertising Business As Seen in Movies and Television
• I Went Grocery Shopping Today... At Target!
• How big is too big for a computer monitor?
• When I grow up, I wanna work in Advertising
• Rediscovering Public Libraries
• Where's the Ribbon?
• Is this the next evolution of GUI Multi-Touch desktop computing?
• This Commercial Cracks Me Up Every Time I See It
• T-Mobile and the SideKick's Cloudy Disaster
• A Little Show of Appreciation
• Dropbox rocks! File Syncing, Sharing, and Backup Extraordinaire!
• Sesame Street Does Mad Men
• Eye Candy for the Designing Soul
• PDF to Word Converter
• Know When to Walk Away... and When to Run
• Google's Chrome Frame Plug-in For Internet Explorer – Conquering From Within
• I've Grown Bored with the Internet
• How to Kill Time in the Office
• Unique Business Card Designs
• Phenomenal Light Show
• Recourses, Inc Is A Valuable Resource
• Clever companies spend more on marketing and advertising during recessions and depressions
• Moving Daily Show Clip from 9/20/01
• Branding Cities, States and Countries
• Gamer Geek Speak
• AOL hires Leo Burnett USA to rebrand it prior to its spin-off
• Some Interesting Facts About My Hometown: Altoona, PA
• Designer's Toolbox is a Designer's Best Friend
• How to keep your email inbox clean and manageable
• Ikea Font Faux Pas?
• Our Xerox Phaser 790 has Reached End of Life
• Baseball's Best Infographics
• Breakdancing, beatbox, and Pachelbel's Cannon....simply awesome!
• Funny sarcastic design & infomercial spoof
• Procrastination
• We're rebranding ourselves
• I Love My Apple TV!
• If you don't know what you're doing, find someone who does.
• Great Customer Service from 1-800 CONTACTS
• You Can't Design in a Vacuum
• A Really Bad Day / Things You Learn When a Tree Comes Crashing Through Your Roof
• First Lady Michelle Obama Celebrates Designers
• Sexy buttons with CSS (a minor improvement)
• In fear of the high school reunion
• Helpful lists of websites and other collections are getting out of hand!
• Free Hospitality for Being Creative?
• Advertising Going Too Far
• President Obama's Health Care Plan... Interpreted Visually
• What Happened to Customer Service?
• Mad Men is coming! Mad Men is coming!
• My favorite free iPhone Apps
• Take a Hike! (or just a walk)
• A few websites to expand your mind
• Don't Judge a Book by Its Cover...
• Another Way for Businesses to be Greener
• The Art of Sketching
• I Love Dunkin Donuts! Or is that my caffeine addiction talking?
• Great Brands Own A Color
• Time Away
• Clean Design + Simple Recipe = Yummy
• Five Important Steps to Know Before Printing a T-Shirt Design
• The general public gets a lesson in how good design sells
• Why designers should keep a notebook or sketch pad on their nightstand
• Store Brands: Getting Better all the Time
• Google Not Paying Artists?
• 5 Videos to Get You Through the Design Day
• Roost Redesign... Yay or Nay?
• Common Courtesy
• The Sparkling, Green Eyed Elaine - Another Tasty Cocktail Recipe
• Things I wish they taught me in college
• The Stink
• Gatorade's Rebranding: the good, the bad, the not-so-ugly
• GM's Reinvention - Hope or Hype?
• America's Favorite Pastime...
• 5 Books Young Graphic Designers Should Read
• Something to Think About
• Happy Birthday, Ipo and Stinky!
• Clean desks lead to happier, more productive lives!
• Under Pressure
• I am totally spoiled
• I am powerless against the infomercial
• Leave it in the hands of a professional... or the story of my first straight razor shave
• Take Advantage of Local Parks and Attractions
• Snapple Rebranded!
• Printing, Printers, & Production
• How many spaces after a period?
• How do you reach your customers in today's fragmented market?
• How frequently should you update your website design?
• In praise of great writing...
• Speak Your Mind
• The Fine Art of Estimating
• ATTENTION ALL CLIENTS
• Letter Me Tell You Something...
• I really love this designers blog....
• Kentucky Fried Chicken's Viral Marketing Failure
• Elementary marketing tips for any business
• Play With Your Type
• Graphic Design: The Rodney Dangerfield of Professional Services
• Color Me Right
• Happy Earth Day! It IS Easy Being Green!
• Buy What Your Clients are Selling
• Listening to music can inspire - but sometimes it's just for fun.
• Ode to the letter B
• What Makes A Great Logo
• Branding can reduce marketing and design costs
• Location, Location, Design Inspiration
• The Crisis of Credit Explained (in easy-to-understand terms)
• MMORPG networking FTW…
• Less Really is More
• Obamamania & Successful Branding Strategies
• Tropicana sales plummet after rebranding
• Graphic design is not a commodity - e.g., crowdsourcing design
• Why Designers Should Attend Conferences
• Little Red Riding Hood retold as infographics
• Staying on Top of Color Trends
• Sun offers the Internet in a box
• Different Generations... Different Ideas
• Social Networking and Advertising
• jldcreative is Animal Friendly!
• Casey's Movie Quotes
• Project & Time Management Tools For Designers and Agencies
• Creativity On Demand, Not Always
• Periodic Table of Typefaces one of those - I wish I thought of that moments
• Some of my favorite movies
• A tasty cocktail recipe
• My dream job (if I didn't work at jldcreative)
• Steady Marketing or Media Blitz - Which is Better?
• Web designers and developers should incorporate SEO fundamentals
• 8 Technology Websites To Follow
• Parody of Microsoft redesigning iPod packaging - still makes me chuckle
• Design eZines and design-related websites that we enjoy
• The economy sucks....so what?
• Headache Reducing Web Design Techniques (or CSS and beyond)
• Welcome to our blog