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Links of the Week Vol. 6

By aprilholle | advertising & marketing, art forms, links of the week, user experience, viral marketing

Alright, so I’ve been out of the circuit for a while on these, but they’re coming back! Check out these sweet links I gathered up from the interwebs last week. Ever wonder if your boss, and his boss, and their boss has it out for the company? Do some of their managerial tactics don’t make

Links of the Week Vol. 2

By aprilholle | art forms, links of the week, viral marketing

Ever work with glitter and wonder if you’re ever going to get rid of the stuff? If so, you need this poster. Everyone is trying to do something viral for Christmas this year, Tattoo Santa is by far the best I’ve seen

CSS Continued…

By aprilholle | XHTML/CSS, art forms, self-reflection

CSS is easy enough to start to learn, but it really takes some practice to master and understand the beautiful efficiency it provides. These techniques of efficiency separate the apprentices from the masters in the art of CSS. Now that I know what I know now, I wish someone would have told me these secrets

Lots to Do This Week

By aprilholle | XHTML/CSS, art forms, flash, new technologies, project management, technology reviews, things to do, user experience, viral marketing

I just wanted to make sure you were invited to all the awesome web and design happenings this week in Phoenix! Tues, Dec 4th – Refresh Phoenix Refresh Phoenix meets every first Tuesday of the month to discuss current internet issues and trends. The topics range from becoming your own boss to css frameworks to

2010 Winter Olympic Mascots Unveiled

2010 Winter Olympic Mascots Unveiled

By aprilholle | advertising & marketing, art forms

Meet the new mascots of the 2010 Winter Olympics! Quatchi the Sasquatch, Miga the Sea Bear, and Sumi the Thunderbird. Aren’t they just adorable?? The mascots were created by Vancouver-based Vicki Wong and Michael Murphy of Meomi Design. There are some mixed reviews out there, many Canadians think the mascots aren’t…Canadian enough. At least they’re

Threadless Holiday Sale

By aprilholle | art forms, things to do

Check out the SWEET holiday sale over at Threadless.com. Sweet, designer tee shirts for $10??!! SCORE!

Quarterlife and Internet Television

By aprilholle | art forms, new idea!, user experience

So I got a recommendation from Erin Enriquez at Terralever to take up watching the new internet series Quarterlife. The premise is basically this intern writer decides to take up video blogging about her two roomates and the two guys that live across the courtyard whom are all friends. It’s a pretty decent concept, but

Steam Crow Release Party for After Halloween

By aprilholle | art forms, things to do

What do goblins, witches and beasties do after Halloween? Why they get jobs of course! Come check out the third book release from Steam Crow Press, After Halloween: An Alphabet Book at Red Hot Robot this Friday. I’ve been a fan of Daniel Davis’ work since I first met him at Refresh Phoenix. When we

If You Love Threadless, Check out Blik

By aprilholle | art forms, new idea!

If you love funky, designer tees check out Threadless.com, not only can you score some threads, you can submit designs to be printed and score other designs! I love having control over what could be printed next, not to mention, being able to submit your own designs into the running. If you already love Threadless

Internet Stars are Viral Video

By aprilholle | advertising & marketing, art forms, new idea!, things to do

If you spend any time at all watching viral videos online or are into viral marketing, you NEED to watch this video! The team over at Cakke has mashed together some of the greatest viral moments (online and off) into one amazingly funny video. It’s really interesting to note just how many of them you