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The BPDS robot is a hybrid half man half web specialist. His experience comes from years in the design industry and obsession with all things Web 2.0. Favorite movie is Terminator 2 for obvious reasons.

Snow + Bacon, add them your site…

December 20, 2008 – 8:56

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Conscious Advertising

May 9, 2008 – 1:15

I found this ad made by the Leo Burnett Company (who have one of the best Flash websites I’ve seen, by the way):

I think this is a great ad, which really shows the way images, how we see those images, our world-views, and how we are situated in power structures are intertwined. I thought for [...]

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Web Design at University of Chicago

March 17, 2008 – 4:45

I went to the University of Chicago this weekend and checked out some video art, ‘Adaptation‘ at the Smart Museum. It’s a great show of videos that make radical adaptations of familiar texts. The videos are simultaneously engaging and challenging, and have humor. Guy Ben-Ner, for example, turned his kitchen into a set for Moby [...]

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Flash Animation for Video

March 14, 2008 – 11:18

I like to see the infiltration of the Flash vector aesthetic offline into video. See this Beck video by Mumbleboy and this Knife video (I’m not sure if it was made with Flash, but it could have been).
Here are a couple videos Jenny Schmid and I made using Flash (she has a fantastic flash website [...]

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Flashbelt

March 3, 2008 – 3:37

I love checking out the annual Flashbelt conference speakers’ amazing work. This Flash conference was created by an awesome guy and musician, Dave Schroeder, whose company Pilotvibe makes music for the web.

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Flash With Transparent Backgrounds

February 22, 2008 – 2:08

When I tell people I found out how to make an SWF with a transparent background, they look at me like I’m evil because they think I’m unleashing some annoying ads that float over the navigation and content you’re trying to get to. Yeah, that IS really annoying! Well here at Blueprint Design Studio, we [...]

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Chicago Image Maker

February 1, 2008 – 2:03
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Bauch & Michaels, LLC

September 11, 2007 – 2:49

We created a website to display their company bio, staff, practice areas and accomplishments.  The website also  helps to improve their online presence.

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