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		<title>Two Minutes into the Futura</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hard to believe it&#8217;s been at least 556,188 minutes since we talked directly about a type design here. That&#8217;s far too long, considering one of us&#8217;ll mutter something about it at least every 5.56188 minutes in our real space. So let&#8217;s get back to it, whaddya say? Forget about Helvetica and Comic Sans for a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.bluezoom.bz/2012/02/03/two-minutes-into-the-futura/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Face Time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today is Tom Saitta&#8217;s birthday. That being the case, we wanted to take a moment and a sliver of bandwidth to recognize and honor the day our Vice President of Account Management became a living, breathing creature – and to toast the man that creature became. You&#8217;re a fellow of distinction, dedication, heart, and soul. Beyond [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.bluezoom.bz/2012/01/27/its-face-time/</link>
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		<title>Instagr/am/bient: Stop, Collaborate and Listen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of many lessons to be learned from hip-hop (or Kenny Rogers) is that it&#8217;s hard to beat a solid collaboration. For us that goes exponential when you make it cross-media, with bonus points if there&#8217;s an iPhone involved. So you can imagine what happened when we got ahold of Instagr/am/bient: 25 Sonic Postcards – the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.bluezoom.bz/2012/01/20/instagrambient-stop-collaborate-and-listen/</link>
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		<title>True and Smart Transparency at the CES</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While every organization under the sun has been grappling with either being or appearing transparent, Samsung&#8217;s been making it happen in the truest sense. Behold, the best thing we&#8217;ve seen out of this year&#8217;s Consumer Electronics Show (admittedly from afar), Samsung&#8217;s Smart Window: Weird how it makes that town so small, though. Beta? Bugs aside, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.bluezoom.bz/2012/01/13/true-and-smart-transparency-at-the-ces/</link>
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		<title>Enjoyable Edification</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Resolutions, diets, and &#8216;new you&#8217; 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&#8217;ll be just as good for you – [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.bluezoom.bz/2012/01/06/enjoyable-edification/</link>
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		<title>Arcade Fire &#124; Sprawl II: Electric Boogaloo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve stopped the press on our previously slated post on account of Arcade Fire releasing a brand-new interactive video for their song Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains), following up on their dedication to creating new ways to experience their music that began with the surprisingly home-hitting The Wilderness Downtown interaction (which warrants a click if [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.bluezoom.bz/2011/12/16/arcade-fire-sprawl-ii-electric-boogaloo/</link>
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		<title>Vowels, Mind Control, and You</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Any post that opens with &#8220;Here&#8217;s something you should know about yourself. Vowels control your brain.&#8221; is worth your time. It&#8217;s actually a long-standing policy here at BZ, but this is the first time it has come into effect. It&#8217;s about time. In an era where vowels, the &#8216;nuclei of syllables&#8217; get cut with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.bluezoom.bz/2011/12/09/vowels-mind-control-and-you/</link>
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		<title>One for the U2 People</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tempus fugit. U2&#8242;s Achtung Baby is now only a year away from buying its own drinks, and part of the party U2&#8242;s team is throwing is an image contest/collaboration, inviting artists to submit photographs and artwork &#8216;which reflects today&#8217;s global environment&#8217; in the same spirit that Achtung Baby and its original artwork did way back in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.bluezoom.bz/2011/12/02/one-for-the-u2-people/</link>
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		<title>Drawing an Excellent Conclusion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; The coolest thing we saw all week just so happens to be a great way to start the weekend, and makes us think that Vimeo et al should work a slo-mo button in somewhere: Keep Drawing is a fantastic short from Korean Studio Shelter about drawing – using many, many differently styled drawings to illustrate the depth, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.bluezoom.bz/2011/11/18/drawing-an-excellent-conclusion/</link>
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		<title>More of This</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Found a whole lot of awesome in one place today over at the Lost Type Co-op , not the least of which is this post about a mural project in the Highlands neighborhood of Louisville, KY. Awesome typefaces, awesome site, awesome organizational model, presumably awesome founders, and the awesome post about an awesome mural using their awesome [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.bluezoom.bz/2011/11/11/more-of-this/</link>
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		<title>Biggie Smalls and Design</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You don&#8217;t have to dig too far in our last.fm history to see that we like a little well-placed, well-done hip-hop while we work. The way good hip-hop has its way with words and ideas can be nice and conducive to a good turn of phrase, design, or entire concept in what we do. Besides, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.bluezoom.bz/2011/11/04/biggie-smalls-and-design/</link>
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		<title>Face to Face and Street Level</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a crazy good couple of weeks. Lots of good work, good works, and celebrations. We had Tommy Beaver&#8217;s Bluezoom tenth last Friday, and now we&#8217;re staring Halloween right in its cold, dead eye. And that ain&#8217;t all, at all. Tuesday before last (the 18th) (tempus fugit) there was also one of the coolest things [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.bluezoom.bz/2011/10/28/face-to-face-and-street-level/</link>
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		<title>Ten Years of Steady Beaver</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a good day at Bluezoom. Today we&#8217;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&#8217;ve kept growing, moved [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.bluezoom.bz/2011/10/21/ten-years-of-steady-beaver/</link>
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		<title>This Just In: We Scored a W3 Award</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick note this very nice Friday afternoon to mention that we&#8217;ve just received word that we got us another W3 Award. What&#8217;s that? Well, if you&#8217;ve ever been in the bar/reception area of our office, they&#8217;re the trophies with the three stacked and skewed cubes. Like this: What does it mean? It means [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.bluezoom.bz/2011/10/14/this-just-in-we-scored-a-w3-award/</link>
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		<title>Steve Jobs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A cursory survey around the office of our 10-person agency yields around 80 instances of the Apple logo. If we looked harder and dug a little, we&#8217;d probably hit the century mark. No other brand even comes close to half of that. If we included our homes, the landslide would continue. But to be honest, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.bluezoom.bz/2011/10/07/steve-jobs/</link>
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		<title>Jack White, Dwell, and Design</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As big fans of Jack White and the things he makes, we couldn&#8217;t resist reading and sharing a recent interview with him in Dwell Magazine about design, music, furniture, and tactility. Favorite entities talking about favorite topics: &#8220;I like tackling problems from a pragmatic standpoint and changing my style accordingly, rather than approaching everything with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.bluezoom.bz/2011/09/30/jack-white-dwell-and-design/</link>
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		<title>Inspiration in Black &amp; White</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; As great as color is or can be, it&#8217;s oftentimes very refreshing to take it out of the system and get into the purity and richness that comes with greyscale (especially on an cloudy fall day). That&#8217;s why we love and recommend Shiro to Kuro, a design curation site that explains themselves simply and elegantly: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.bluezoom.bz/2011/09/23/inspiration-in-black-white/</link>
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		<title>Scroll On</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It's good to remember that information technology in one form or another has been around at least as long as we humans. Cave paintings count too: there was a time when charcoal mixed with animal fat was the new hotness. Though we've come a long way (in some ways) since then, it's cool to think about what we use today as part of a continuum of storytelling and connecting that's something we're naturally, amazingly compelled to do and improve upon.]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.bluezoom.bz/2011/09/16/scroll-on/</link>
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		<title>QR codes need love, too.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We got a great direct mail piece from Billy Reid, and it changed the perspective on QR codes.]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.bluezoom.bz/2011/09/09/qr-codes-need-love-too/</link>
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		<title>Burrito, Supremely</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;re commissioning some supreme work to back it up. Their latest brings in Willie Nelson covering/owning Coldplay&#8217;s The Scientist as accompaniment to Johnny Kelly&#8217;s short [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.bluezoom.bz/2011/09/02/burrito-supremely/</link>
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