Dirty Rotten Apples Hits Digg Top Stories
A project I have been co-conspiring on with long-time friend and super comedian Nate Smith is slowly, but steadily picking up steam. The concept of Dirty Rotten Apples is simple — create funny content...
View ArticleMac Tip: Create Custom Color Palettes
One of the major hassles I have encountered when designing within several Mac applications is that I have to keep track of all my color codes to maintain branding consistency from Pages to Keynote to...
View ArticleThe Woz Is Off The Rails (And Everyone Knows It)
Earlier Sunday morning I wrote about how Apple co-founder and resident adorable teddy bear Steve Wozniak has been incredibly ridiculous in his public commenting lately. Included in this piece was one...
View ArticleThoughts on iOS 6 Maps (and what everyone is saying about it)
I downloaded iOS 6 a couple hours after it was released for my iPhone 4 and about 40 minutes later I was ready to go. By that point there were about 200,000 blog posts about how much of a bust iOS 6...
View ArticleApple Commentary, Humor, and Whatnot
One of my long-time passions has been the world of Apple. It started way back in elementary school with The Oregon Trail, was reignited in college while studying graphic design and videography, and...
View ArticleWhy People Love to Hate, Love to Love, and Hate to Love Apple
Apple, as it turns out, has become all things to everyone. It is the most reviled company on the planet — daring to control its users by encompassing them in a suffocating walled garden, maliciously...
View ArticleBowie Understands You.
As part of an application for W+K 12.9, I created a campaign that would reintroduce today’s youth to one of the most legendary pop icons of the last 30 years — David Bowie. The product, made in about...
View ArticleThe David Bowie Project: Reactions
It’s been a crazy week to say the least. After finding out I had made it to Round 2 of W+K 12′s application process on Monday evening, I embarked on a crazy homework assignment to see if I will make it...
View ArticleA Quick Thought About Instagram’s New Advertising Policies
I am outraged. Wait. Check that. I am … OUTRAGED! Apparently, Instagram has decided that it wants to make a little money on its service that has been connecting millions of people to each other’s...
View ArticleYou Asked, NEO Delivered.
Hey, I wrote that. For the last month or so I’ve been doing some freelance copywriting for Portland Ad Agency HappyLucky, focusing my wordsmithing efforts on Adidas’ NEO Label. I have also done a few...
View ArticleI think this technology thing might catch on
Dang, I wish I grew up with an iPad. Kids today. They see our devices, the phones that keep us connected, the tablets that keep us entertained, the remote controls that keep us confused as to which...
View ArticleI’m Begging You, Stop Begging For Retweets
I am on a mission — a new crusade to stop one of the modern world’s grave atrocities. It is my goal to stop big brands from begging for retweets. It is our generation’s “Honk if you…” scenario wrapped...
View ArticleA Quick Word On ‘Analysts’
There are few things worse in this world than reports from industry ‘analysts’. Nowhere is this more evident than technology-tracking twits that claim to be insiders, spouting about how doomed...
View ArticleSports and Technology and Where It All Ends Up
We’re here. Baseball with expanded replay. Swimsuits that are faster than skin. Sensors that track everything you do. Smartphones that run apps that map your run. Instant replay that gets beamed to our...
View ArticleApple ad features some of my clients
One of the latest Apple ads featured a couple accounts I worked on while freelancing for Nonbox in Portland — ZEPP (the golf swing analyzing app and hardware) and WAHOO (the bike statistics tracker app...
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