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Enjoyable Edification
January 6, 2012 | No Comments | View
Resolutions, diets, and ‘new you’ to-dos are all well and good, but instead of more of that, how about we kick off 2012 with 100 of the greatest gig posters of the last 5 years, as curated by the author of The Wall: Modern Day Music Posters, Tom Booth? It’ll be just as good for you – [...]
Vowels, Mind Control, and You
December 9, 2011 | No Comments | View
Any post that opens with “Here’s something you should know about yourself. Vowels control your brain.” is worth your time. It’s actually a long-standing policy here at BZ, but this is the first time it has come into effect. It’s about time. In an era where vowels, the ‘nuclei of syllables’ get cut with [...]
One for the U2 People
December 2, 2011 | No Comments | View
Tempus fugit. U2′s Achtung Baby is now only a year away from buying its own drinks, and part of the party U2′s team is throwing is an image contest/collaboration, inviting artists to submit photographs and artwork ‘which reflects today’s global environment’ in the same spirit that Achtung Baby and its original artwork did way back in [...]
Tags: Achtung Baby > Contest > U2
Ten Years of Steady Beaver
October 21, 2011 | No Comments | View
It’s a good day at Bluezoom. Today we’re celebrating the ten-year mark of the most-enjoyable and enriching honor of having Tommy Beaver in the Bluezoom fold. Hard to believe a decade has passed since he stopped in for a casual (but in hindsight, monumental) meet-n-greet. A lot has changed since then: we’ve kept growing, moved [...]
This Just In: We Scored a W3 Award
October 14, 2011 | No Comments | View
Just a quick note this very nice Friday afternoon to mention that we’ve just received word that we got us another W3 Award. What’s that? Well, if you’ve ever been in the bar/reception area of our office, they’re the trophies with the three stacked and skewed cubes. Like this: What does it mean? It means [...]
QR codes need love, too.
September 9, 2011 | No Comments | View
We got a great direct mail piece from Billy Reid, and it changed the perspective on QR codes.
Tags: Billy Reid > direct mail > tommy beaver
Burrito, Supremely
September 2, 2011 | No Comments | View
Chipotle makes a damn fine burrito, even if they do keep their cilantro a loose secret. Now that they have some equally fine intentions (and messaging) in Cultivate a Better World, they’re commissioning some supreme work to back it up. Their latest brings in Willie Nelson covering/owning Coldplay’s The Scientist as accompaniment to Johnny Kelly’s short [...]
Tags: Chipotle > Coldplay > film > Johnny Kelly > Willie Nelson
John Jay On Creativity
August 12, 2011 | No Comments | View
A great video came across our collective desktop this week and it’s worth sharing for a number of reasons. Offered up by Fast Company as part of their 100 Most Creative People in Business 2011, it’s (#41) John Jay, Weiden + Kennedy’s global executive creative director (fancy) speaking about creativity. He does a masterful job [...]
Let’s Evolve with Edward Boches
August 5, 2011 | No Comments | View
Not too long ago, Edward Boches caught a bug, missed speaking at a social media breakfast, and was nice enough to post his slides and notes for all of us to take in and digest. Advertising Evolves. You Should, Too has stuck with us all summer as we talk about past, present, and future (it’s not just a January tradition), tech, trends, and tacks. In the spirit of scooting things along that we imagine compels Mr. Boches to share his thoughts and work with the public, we wanted to point to it, as well. The more common these types of ideas and practices become, the better the world could be.
The RGB Revolution | Codes of Convenience
July 8, 2011 | No Comments | View
How’s this for fresh? Koreans can now shop and buy groceries with their smartphones while waiting for the subway. Tesco Homeplus (with the help of their smart agency Cheil) has placed large-format graphics in Select South Korean subway stations that look like aisles of groceries. Each item on the ‘shopping wall’ is matched with [...]
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