http://www.wegerbauer.com Blog about digital creative Sun, 02 Nov 2008 06:41:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en With the financial crunch at hand, I embarked on a creative project that focused on the symbol of U.S. economics - THE DOLLAR. With the economy bleeding, our financial system has revealed itself as an abstract set of disparate elements that somehow operate as a single entity. I got to thinking ... http://www.wegerbauer.com/exquisite-corpse-meets-the-dollar-bill.html   I wrote a piece on Twitter's future that I posted on iCrossing's 'Great Finds' blog.  The post discusses Twitter's ubiquity, how Twitter could become the mobile equivalent of PayPal, helpful 3rd party software, Speed, and how people are connecting these days.  Instead of regurgitating all the same stuff again, just ... http://www.wegerbauer.com/the-future-of-twitter.html A collegue was looking over my shoulder in a meeting gone bad, and told me I had some blog material there.  Well....here you go: I do have to give credit to Ralph Zenger who drew a cactus face while we were in Chicago last month, and ever since then I have ... http://www.wegerbauer.com/creative-sketch.html If you are a fan of American Football, you surely noticed that Chad Johnson legally changed his name to Chad Ocho Cinco.  His jersey number is 85, and his nickname was always Ocho Cinco.  So, ala World B. Free (reader - remember that guy?) he decided to get rid of ... http://www.wegerbauer.com/marketing-chad-johnson-as-ocho-cinco.html   Someone once said that you can tell a lot about a person from an anagram of their name.  I just found out that 'I, A beer crew urge' is an anagram of my full name.  Other such anagrams from my name: I grew a beer cure.  A brewer ice urge.  Beware: rice ... http://www.wegerbauer.com/i-a-beer-crew-urge.html   I was in Chicago with the Creative Leadership Team a few weeks ago, and as part of the evening festivities we took them to The Second City for a little comedy.  As part of the routine the comedy group did an improv exercise they called Freeze.  Here is how Freeze works:  Two comedians ... http://www.wegerbauer.com/creative-brainstorming.html About a year ago I started handing out dollar bills to people that worked for me, and I asked them to do whatever they wanted with the dollar as long as I could laminate it when finished.  Once laminated, I want to buy the large Zettel Chandelier and use the ... http://www.wegerbauer.com/dollar-bill-art-is-so-money.html Sample of a banner campaign we just finished up for a client in London: Lights, Camera, Attraction:   Dress Up Now:   Could Cause Bodily Charm: http://www.wegerbauer.com/banner-creative.html   When I read about a new Fire Fox plug-in today, an ironic smile slid across my face!  A part of business I do is rich media banner campaigns and to think that it might all go away in the name of art left me with a bitter-sweet residue (reader: honestly, it ... http://www.wegerbauer.com/firefox-covers-banners-with-art.html I was on the road this week working through a series of creative strategy sessions with one of our better clients, and we got into several long discussions about what makes a well designed site.  In this case the business objectives are focused more on Sales (ROI), so that's where ... http://www.wegerbauer.com/effective-web-design.html