inCommunicado - eric eggertson

Brown Communications got a grudging pat on the back from AdRants’ Steve Hall for their latest self-promotion on their storefront billboard.

This one features an amplifier volume switch that goes up to 11.  Brings back memories of Spinal Tap, the great mockumentary that showed Christopher Guest how it’s done.
In Spinal Tap, the heavy metal rocker enthuses […]

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Via Ed Lee’s blog, I came across Choose Your Own Holiday Adventure, set up by iStudio.

This is a nice little self-promotion tool for the web design firm.  I chose to NOT include music, so it’s safe for work (unless you click on the video game - then all bets are off).
Based on your input, the […]

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Confesion: I have a thing for signage.  I rave about good signage, and contantly harp about the perils of bad signage.
When I see a new stop sign - without warning signs about the change - all I see is a lawsuit.  When I can barely navigate a parking garage because the signs are […]

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Every time I try out another third-party tool to view my Flickr photos, the creative options out there reinforces the cool factor in the Flickr brand.
But it’s not just my photos I can play around with. All public photos on Flickr are available for anyone to view and sort.

Kevin Dugan pointed me to a site […]

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When’s the last time someone broke into the conversation because they couldn’t wait to tell you about a nondescript product or service that met some of their needs in a generic sort of way?
Unless your friends are broke and have found something free that would normally cost hundreds of dollars, it’s not likely.  People may […]

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The first time I started our Xbox I couldn’t believe the incredibly noisy start-up sound that emanated from the TV speakers.
Obviously, the design team never tried to catch a quick video game at 2 a.m., while everyone else is asleep.
It’s designed to draw attention to the fact that you’re about to play games instead of:

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Shopping at the Safeway a while ago, I kept picking meat packages up out of the meat cooler, looking them over, then putting them down again.  None of the meat appealed to me, but I couldn’t figure out why.
I finally picked some beef, took it home, and noticed something about the new packaging.
The label’s checkered […]

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Web seer Robert Scoble claims "ugly design" or "anti-marketing design" works well for web sites, because people have become suspicious of sites that look too well put together.  In a lot of ways, he’s right.
Anyone who has been involved in direct marketing can tell you the most effective solicitation pieces aren’t always the fanciest.  They’re […]

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  Brown Communications Billboard - The Power Plug    Originally uploaded by Mutually Inclusive.
Brown Communications puts its best creative foot forward on a billboard on their Albert Street office in Regina.  The self promotion generally tries to get the observer to look twice, and hopefully think about the visual or verbal […]

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Most people would agree that it would be great if information people plug into their weblogs was easily searched, retrieved and categorized for the kind of information it is. For example, getting a search bot to go out and find all the conferences on a certain topic scheduled for your region for the coming fiscal […]

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The use of GPS location information continues to be applied to web tools that identify where in the world someone or something is.Steve Rubel points to KMaps, a service that allows you to provide and receive location information from a home computer, a PDA cell phone, or a Palm PDA. KMaps can host various directories […]

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