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  • Smoking Banned, Indoors and Out.

    August 7th, 2012 / Comments (0)

    In what seems to be an extraordinary circumstance, one of the most infamous tobacco towns has now banned smoking. We have seen smoking banned indoors and within X number of feet from a restaurant, but Durham, NC has taken it one step further by outlawing smoking on all city owned properties. This doesn't just mean you puffers, this also includes chewing tobacco, pipes and cigars.

    You can read more about this here.

  • Chirp: An App That Uses A Song To Share Pics

    August 7th, 2012 / Comments (0)

    From Co.design/Cliff Kuang

    Forget Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Chirp uses speakers and microphones to share photos and other information.

    We still haven’t discovered the perfect way to share information between devices--one that’s ubiquitous and natural. Bump had an interesting interaction approach. Dropbox is powerful but digital. If I want to just send a photo from my phone to your computer, why do I need to get intermediaries like email or USB cords involved to get the job done?

    Chirp is a new iPhone app by Animal Systems that’s tackling file sharing in a surprisingly low-tech way. When you want to share, say, a photo, your phone emits a song. Another phone hears the song, and it loads the picture. It’s sort of like file sharing as imagined by The Hunger Games’ mockingjays.

    “We’re called Animal Systems because, well, we look to nature for inspiration,” explains CEO Patrick Bergel. “Specifically, we’ve been looking at how biology encodes information, in this case, and playing around with various related ideas, all with mobile as the starting point. Chirp was the best idea, so we went with that.”

    Sending information via audio blips is traditionally slow (just think about fax machines and modems). Technically, any chirp is comprised of 20 different tones, which actually encode 50 bits of information--just enough for a bit of text, like 10 characters of text--that links the receiver up to a specific URL/file stored in the cloud by the sender. In essence, a chirp is a QR code you can hear and record rather than awkwardly photograph.

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  • Cheil Worldwide buys McKinney

    August 4th, 2012 / Comments (0)

    After much speculation, a deal by the South Korean advertising agency Cheil Worldwide to buy the independent American agency McKinney is complete.

    In a statement, Nack-Hoi Kim, the chief executive for Cheil Worldwide, said the move would help the South Korean agency mark “the next chapter in the company’s transformation into a global network made of the best local ad agencies.” The deal is estimated at $50 million and will make McKinney part of Cheil Americas, though the McKinney name will remain.

    “McKinney is one of the best advertising agencies in the world’s largest advertising market,” Mr. Kim said in an e-mail. “Their highly creative, integrated approach is recognized as the most effective in the world.”

    Cheil also has offices in Canada, Mexico, Central America and Brazil.

    McKinney, based in Durham, N.C., has been independent since 2008 when it bought itself back from Havas, a global advertising holding company. At the time, Brad W. Brinegar, the chairman and chief executive of McKinney, was quoted in a news release as saying, “My hope is that with the move, McKinney’s clients will feel an even greater sense of entrepreneurial commitment to their success.”

    In recent years, Cheil, once owned by the Samsung Group, has had its share of changes as it struggled to gain traction in the United States. In 2010, the company renamed its Dallas and New York offices “One Agency” and began a London-based agency of the same name.

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    via NY TIMES

  • New Job - Art Director

    August 4th, 2012 / Comments (0)

    New Job in Milwaukee, WI

    Art Director @ Laughlin Constable

    View Job Here: http://www.therduegotist.com/jobs/full-time/laughlin-constable/art-director

    Remember that members see jobs before everyone else.

  • Kansas City Is Now The Fastest On The Internet

    July 31st, 2012 / Comments (0)

    About a year ago, Google held a competition in which they offered to install Google Fiber in your city if you have the best appeal. Well, from the submissions, Kansas City was chosen to be the first. With the help of Venables Bell & Partners, Google just released a new spot extolling the virtues of the new high speed internet service that is now up and running in Kansas City.

    Check out Kansas City's winning video appeal after the jump.

    Google Fiber Ad

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  • Hometown Agency Makes Good

    July 27th, 2012 / Comments (0)

    Local agency Baldwin& was recently named "Agency of the Year" at the AdAge Small Agency awards held in Minneapolis. A well deserved award and congratulations are in order.

    Read the full article here

  • Apple Does It. Why Can't You?

    July 18th, 2012 / Comments (0)

    Stumbled across this great blog today. It really is a very amusing look at Apple ads and what if they were used for everything. I almost argue, why not? Of course, without the buzz and perception cloud that follows Apple around, these ads do little more than reinforce a group-think notion but hey, they are wildly successful so who are we to judge!

    Applefiedads.blogspot Click it. Click it. We dare you.

  • Bleeding Billboard

    July 16th, 2012 / Comments (0)

    This roadside billboard in New Zealand, designed by ColensoBBDO, is an effective and stark reminder to drive carefully. I'm not sure if this would fly in US? Do you think the public would let this stay up?

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