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Santa Paws

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:00:05 -0700

It looks like the Window’s Picture Perfect Holiday program has gone to the dogs! It’s a good thing Santa doesn’t have any allergies to pets because during our ‘Santa Paws’ night at The Shops at North Bridge in Chicago, pet-parents brought their four-legged friends for a visit with Santa and their very own free holiday photos. Check out some of the pics below!

The Starbucks Evolution—Submerging The Brand

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:06:00 -0700

During the 1990’s Starbucks was opening locations at a feverish pace, and to maintain the growth they relied on a retail design template for all the new stores opening—mermaids, teak wood ceiling cutouts, rustic illustrations, and earth-tones. In many ways this initial approach helped them to create brand signals that people instantly associated with Starbucks. All of this began to change in 2007 when Starbucks stock began to drop, the company quickly realized that they can no longer treat every location around the world the same.

Local Design Experiments to Break the Cookie-Cutter Mold

For we are a culture with a third term, a restless creativity. If once we were a mainstream and avant-garde, now we are a great wilderness, with thousands of little experiments happening everywhere. Point, counterpoint is dead. The struggle between status and cool is over. We are now a culture over-flowing with variety and noise.

-Grant McCracken, in Chief Culture Officer

At one point there were two distinct cultural approaches mainstream (represented by Starbucks cookie-cutter approach) and avant-garde (represented by unique counter-mainstream local retail), but as explained in Grant McCracken’s new book Chief Culture Officer we’re now a culture that responds to a third category “restless creativity” based on thousands of creative experiments. This shift is exactly what Starbucks is hoping to capitalize on for the future.

In a smart move to break out of the mainstream, cookie-cutter approach to store design, Starbucks is experimenting with creating unique stores that are more consistent to their local surroundings. The design team is now attempting to removing the sameness that exist where your at a Starbucks in suburban Orange County, California or urban Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan, and custom create locations that complement the neighborhood.

Test Chat

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Client: I like the way you linked the image in the on-line flyer to the web page for the product. Can you do that for the new catalog?

Me: But the catalog is a print version.

Client: Yeah, I want them to be able to move to the web page as easily as they can with the flyer images.

Me: But the catalog is a print version.

Client: So? What’s the issue?

206inc: Snoqualmie Ice Cream and Pizza Party

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:19:00 -0700

206inc: Snoqualmie Ice Cream and Pizza Party:

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Ever since we began working with Snoqualmie Ice Cream in 2010, we’ve been blown away by owners Barry and Shahnaz Bettinger’s commitment to sustainability and passion for creating the perfect ice cream. We really can’t gush enough about the company, and we have a freezer full of ice cream to prove…

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"I’m so awesome"

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“I’m so awesome”

- test

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ascender: Keith David Young Texas based photographer that is...

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ascender:

Keith David Young

Texas based photographer that is “now specializing in design, photography, and bear hugs.”

themadeshop: Just found an old rendering on my hard drive of my...

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 13:49:28 -0700

themadeshop:

Just found an old rendering on my hard drive of my Iceland Aluminum City project I never realized I had made. Wish I would have used it in the final review now.

ascender: Buy a Style Hatch theme and give life. For every 5...

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 13:48:25 -0700

ascender:

Buy a Style Hatch theme and give life. For every 5 themes sold 1 person is provided with access to life changing fresh water. Why Water?

Almost a billion people live without clean drinking water. We call this the water crisis. It’s a crisis because it only starts with water — but water affects everything in life.

Health. Education. Food security. The lives of women, especially. We can end the water crisis in our lifetime. But first we have to let everyone know it’s happening. Learn how water changes everything — and share this with everyone you know.

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