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10.21.09
Why I “Hate” Outlook 2007
Contributor: Rob Wernersbach Image: David Braddock I was originally going to have my inaugural SP Blog post be about High Capacity Color Barcodes and how the Microsoft Tag implementation allows you to take a photo of an HCCB with your smart phone and automatically be directed to a website, video or other online destination. It’s…
10.12.09
Michael’s delicious lesson in humility, maturity and speechwriting
Contributor: Michael Langley Image: Kelly Allen As noted below, SullivanPerkins recently received four prestigious Quill Awards. One of them was for a piece I worked on: the BNSF Bottom Well Direct Mail. Sadly, I was not able to be present to accept the Award. Had I been, here’s what I might have said. Sit down,…
10.06.09
How Do You Picture Motion Pictures?
Bart Weiss, director of the Dallas Video Festival, has a guest post up at KERA’s Art & Seek blog about choosing this year’s festival poster. He touches on the complex way “VideoFest” strives to create a unique, interesting and compelling identity — and a different one every year. When you think back on each year’s…
10.01.09
Four Feathers In Our Cap
The Dallas chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators held their annual Quill Awards on September 30th, and we’re pleased to announce that SullivanPerkins won six of the prestigious marketing and communications awards. It was a great night for SP, with four “Excellence” and two “Merit” awards for work ranging from print to outdoor.…
09.29.09
From the Sketchpad: We Found Bigfoot
Drawing by Robert Soto Did you know there’s an annual Texas Bigfoot Conference? It was last spotted in Tyler, Texas on September 26th, 2009. We came across Texas’ impressive Bigfoot research community while working on the Caldwell Zoo website. Thanks to thousands and thousands of acres of forest, East Texas is a hotbed for Bigfoot…
09.28.09
SPSurvey: What… is your favorite color?
The picture above isn’t your ordinary gradient. It’s the first installment of a new flavor of article at SPBlog. Each month, we will poll the designers, writers, account managers and other SullivanPerkins creatives on questions ranging from “What is your favorite book cover” to “How does one prove whether or not there are infinite prime…
09.17.09
Kitchen Dog Theater’s New Season, New Show and New Website
Kitchen Dog Theater’s much-anticipated 09/10 season is finally underway, and the opener, Vigils, wasn’t the only show that premiered recently. Their new SP-designed website went live as well, boasting ample magenta, the Soviet-esque font East Bloc, and – more importantly – new images capturing the evocative subject matter we’ve come to expect from a Kitchen…
09.14.09
He Wrote Beyond The Genius Of The Sea
Contributor: Michael Langley Recently, I was asked by Rough to answer a few questions about my inspirations. I thought I’d share them here, too. – – – – – Where was the first place that you worked in Dallas? When did you work there and what was your title? I responded to a writer-wanted ad…
09.09.09
Graffiti From Around the World
Contributor: Rob Wilson When I travel, I sometimes find the byways between points of interest as interesting as the places I’m going. Whether I’m walking along broken walls in Spain headed to an old church, or veering down side streets in Brooklyn on the way to a cafe, I’m always amazed at the ingenuity and…
09.01.09
Jump! Oh wait, nevermind.
When an account executive is standing alongside Dallas North Tollway and shouting at the top of her lungs at a man standing on a billboard, you know you’re executing a fun idea. As part of an ad campaign for Austin Ranch, a new apartment community in North Dallas, we were asked to create a series…