How Mint.com succeeded because of their brand and design.

This is a really interesting quick blog post on why deign and branding matters for start ups from the lead designer at Mint.com (my favorite financial site).

http://blog.novaurora.com/post/230923090/how-mint-com-won

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Sometimes you just need great vector maps of the world

And this is one of those times.

Here’s the link: http://www.webresourcesdepot.com/free-vector-world-maps-collection/

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Flour power – an amazingly fresh skateboarding video

Wizard Smoke from Salazar on Vimeo.

This is one of those – ‘I wish I had thought of that ideas’.

It reminds me of the chalk Lebron Nike spot but taken to the next level. I
kind of expect to see this in a commercial production soon.

Via yimmyyayo

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The website is still down – awesome new clips

This is a blast from the blast – on of my all time favorite (defiantly not
safe for work unless you work in ad agency then it’s internet meme/culutral
research) web clips – The website is down.

Here’s the original:

And here’s the new stuff:

It’s so very good – so many inside tech jokes – I wasn’t sure if the last
episode was sponsored by Intel – maybe it should of been.

Via techcrunch

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Where can I get one or three of these?

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I’ve never seen a real airport gate until now.

Hey interwebs i’m back. Kayla has given me my mac and iPhone back.

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Early photos from our Wedding Brunch

A big thank you to Mark for these great photos.

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We are pretty happy about our honeymoon choice

We arrived safe and sound, we’ll see everyone in a week.

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I really like this useful retail installation from @Zeusjones

I’ve always loved the thinking and writing from ZeusJones, it’s great to see
some of their clients making the leap and producing some great work.

This is from their blog write up:

“Our research uncovered two behaviors among BP customers that we thought
were interesting:

First, we found that girls would bring their camera phones into the dressing
room with them and take snapshots of outfits they tried on ­ to help with
later purchase decisions.

Second, groups of girls would get together, do each other¹s hair and makeup
and take photos for their MySpace / Facebook profile pics ­ obviously big
platforms for self-expression.

Our goal with this project ­ which we called BP Photobooth ­ was to enable
these kinds of actions in the store, but with much higher quality output.
The result is a system that allows customers to try on clothes, take
professional quality pics (in flattering lighting), add custom graphics and
art and then print or email their images.”

There’s more from their blog here:
http://www.zeusjones.com/blog/2009/recently-launched-bp-photobooth/

Via @paulisakson

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Latest did you know from the economist via @rickwebb

I quote Rickwebb:

Economist ³Did you know?² (via EconomistMagazine)

This was well-produced and thought-provoking, though offering no real
problems or solutions. Still, though, it looks like it was fun to make and
gets you thinking.

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