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the poker face of starbucks
© 2011 Dave Weinberg
old orchard beach x 16
185 Middle Street, Portland, Maine
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how to remember why the room
is still spinning
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free scratching instructions
© 2011 Acadia D.
*Steven Pressfield’s ‘Do the Work‘, The Domino Project‘s second release, now available – kindle edition free (courtesy of GE).
“I think I dotcom… I think I dotcom…”
© 2011 Dave Weinberg
the 58th charts some brand new territory
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a gov’t for which people by what people?
© 2011 Dave Weinberg
how to see if it sticks
© 2011 Peter Fishman
the future of design in media will be ABSTRACT
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domino project street team, IRL
© 2011 Dave Weinberg
Met with approx. 20 of the 69 member international domino project street team last night in lower manhattan to discuss project theme and ideas.
Amazing cross-perspectives and conversations from the design, publishing and technology world. First release, Seth Godin’s, Poke the Box available March 1 – pre-order your kindle version for just $1 before March 1.
plow like an eagle
5 years x design = wood
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how to improve your attitude
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how to break an old record (company)
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eye candy
© 2010 Dave Weinberg
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Also available, framed and signed archival prints!
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step 1: destroy main street.
step 2: ____________________.
© 2010 Dave Weinberg
how to get on with your life
© 2010 Dave Weinberg
#cellphoneSketchpad Note Cards IRL
cellphoneSketchpad and xBkynyte Note Cards for Sale!
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the value of design
What makes a design good? What is the thinking behind good design? Can good design help advance the goals of business? Come find out at the AIGA Maine Annual Exhibit now on display at Maine College of Art.
AIGA Maine + MaineBiz present ‘Good Design is Good Business‘, curated by Mark Smith, Exhibition Director, AIGA Maine and partner at curvwork in Portland, Maine.
The exhibit explores design, beyond and beneath the finished ‘artifact’ seen by the public. It gets under the hood of real-world business challenges, showcasing BEFORE and AFTER projects and projects that explore innovative process and problem solving.
Come see the design thinking behind the design and see for yourself how Good Design is Good Business, now on display at Maine College of Art, through November 26, 2010.
Environmental Graphics, courtesy of Portland Color.
© 2010 Dave Weinberg
a rooster’s welcoming
© 2010 Dave Weinberg
Now open in Augusta, Maine. Coming soon to Key West: http://roosters.com
More on the branding and identity of Rooster’s.
Start liking it on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RoostersPizza
how to mess with your own head
© 2010 Lisa Perkins
tricked or treated
© 2010 Acadia D. (sketch); Dave Weinberg (skribe)
Please VOTE this Tuesday. And maybe take a risk to base it not on fear, not on polarized party affiliation, but on the issues and ideas that matter most. It may still be ‘the economy, stupid‘ but also consider that it may be ‘the relationship, genius!’ – our relationship to one another and ourselves.
Perhaps if we asked more questions about our own true values and what shaped them (particularly some of those more painful value-shaping moments) and stopped listening to 24 hour fear-mongering news channels (as posited at yesterday’s rally to restore sanity) we might get in touch with something new.
I mean in the end, why DO we do what we do? Do we even know or are we just on auto-pilot most of the time cause we’re too friggin’ busy to stop and ask some important questions? And if so, why is that?
“If you will accept the conditions as what you’re aiming at then the rest of this applies to you — otherwise not.”
-J.G. Bennett (1897-1974)
note: product placement in this sketch intentionally unintentional.
how it got to be a man’s world, maybe…
© 2010 Dave Weinberg
holy pepperoni
© 2010 Dave Weinberg
Rooster’s Coal Fired Pizza & Tap House. Now Open. 110 Community Drive, Augusta Maine (right near the civic center)
coffee: unplugged
© 2010 Dave Weinberg
vote. drink. bowl. green.
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<woof woof> <tweet tweet> <sniff sniff>
© 2010 Dave Weinberg
in security
© 2010 Dave Weinberg
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Please vote (yes…) for cellphoneSketchpad to present at SXSW 2011 in Austin, Texas. Public voting thru August 31.
♫ i’m dreaming of a green christmas ♪…
fueling kinda kinky
© 2010 Dave Weinberg
Please vote (yes…) for cellphoneSketchpad to present at SXSW 2011 in Austin, Texas.
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Now available for purchase online and in select stores:
>> Old Port Card Works, 3 Moulton Street Portland, Maine
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corrugated co-dependent
© 2010 Dave Weinberg
i don’t think; therefore i shop
© 2010 Dave Weinberg
anti-social media
© 2010 Dave Weinberg
hip hip hooray!
congrats to Old Port Card Works!
Portland, Maine
© 2010 Dave Weinberg
cellph rephlection
© 2010 Dave Weinberg
Check out the very different lens of Filmosity Productions.
weather, by design
© 2010 Dave Weinberg
The 2010 AIGA Leadership Retreat #aigaretreat was held in Chattanooga, Tennessee from June 6 – 8. This year’s theme – ‘Engage’ is arguably the best word to encapsulate and expand upon – the role that design plays in society at this time. AIGA, the professional association for design is a 20K+ member organization comprised of 65 chapters nationwide. The Annual Retreat is an opportunity for chapter leadership to ‘engage’ with one another to carry forward AIGA’s mission – advancing design as a strategic tool, professional craft and vital cultural force.
Learn more about AIGA and its many initiatives – from sustainability, through the living principles to tips for surviving and excelling as an in-HOWse designer. An invaluable resource of tools and networking for Creatives; an essential resource for business professionals who hire or partner with Creatives.
AIGA, the professional association for design. An emerging global movement. Demonstrating the value that design brings to business and culture.
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what if dairy queen got stimulus $?
© 2010 Dave Weinberg
how to not follow instructions
© 2010 Dave Weinberg
exxon valdez, the next generation:
speaks out
© 2010 Dave Weinberg
BP Executive scapegoat courtesy of Project M North 2010 on display at the good life fest in Belfast, Maine. Check out stuffitbp.com for more photos and to learn how hair (yours and your dog’s) can help the situation in the Gulf of Mexico.
If you live in Maine you may have noticed or (as I imagine ExxonMobil would prefer it…) NOT noticed, how Exxon gas stations have all but disappeared from the easy-on/easy-off highway drivescapes. In what appears to have been either a back room corporate coup d’état by Irving Oil or more likely a calculated means of UN-branding by ExxonMobil – the partnership enables a brilliant PR shell game.
The Premise:
Remove the logo of the brand associated with one of the worst environmental disasters in history (until just a couple of weeks ago…) while leaving the grandchild brand of the red Pegasus behind to continue doing business. Over time, perhaps less people will associate the Mobil brand with the parent ExxonMobil joint corporation.
Not that it matters anyway, we now have a new scapegoat – British Petroleum. Time will tell if there is an equivalent Capt. Joe Hazelwood to pin this one on. And if so were they drunk or sober when they chose not to enforce the necessary inspection or expense of assuring that a mile down under water fail-safe mechanism would not actually, um… fail…
Also:
Have you noticed how Gulf recently updated their logo over the last few years to be set on a clear blue sky? It is very comforting to know that Gulf no longer deals in those filthy dangerous fossil fuels. Apparently, whatever I’m pumping into the Honda from Gulf is just a breath of fresh air. Sadly there is another Gulf that will not be fresh again for a very long time.
Last thought:
This is not an indictment of the local owners of franchises of these brands. And, no I do not own a Prius (heard they have some issues too…) and yes, I should be biking more for regular transportation and exercise. So am I not complicit here? My personal choices and dependance on oil enables this ‘machine’ to keep on churning it out and enables disasters like this to happen.
We as consumers have more power than we (choose to) think. If we change our behaviors and how we spend our dollars perhaps corporations would get the message and it would not take a disaster of this magnitude to get us where we need to be going. To quote Saul Griffith – “the planet is your client”.
At the risk of gettin’ all treehugger – as we celebrate Mother’s Day let’s not forget to celebrate Mother Earth.
#cSp special edition – ‘A Moment in Time’
More info about A Moment in Time.
the makings of a real hero
warning: the following sketches may cause involuntary drooling.
© 2010 Dave Weinberg
“welcome… you’ve got trash!”
© 2010 Dave Weinberg
$25$15
© 2010 Dave Weinberg
Seth Godin’s latest book, Linchpin – reads like a manifesto/owner’s manual on how to stand-out during uncertain times – with a narrative that at times channels classic Kurt Vonnegut (there are even little pen & ink drawings in it, circa Breakfast of Champions…) but with a much more hopeful outcome (based on choices YOU actually get to make with your life).
Godin challenges us to believe in the possibilities, accept what is and to persevere through the all too human inner resistances that keeps us mired in self-doubt, an outdated world view and (old all too) familiar mindsets.
anyways here’s the deal:
Linchpin lists for $25. I paid $15 each and will gladly pass that savings on to anyone who is interested (you know, while supplies last… void where prohibited… and all that marketing blah blah…). Email me at: cellphoneSketchpad@gmail.com if you’d like a copy (free delivery to RiRa Tweetup attendees this Wednesday 😉 you can also get a copy for about the same price directly from Amazon.
portland greendrank
thanks to hosts VIA Group and Maine Magazine
(not to mention, Peak Organic, Sebago and Allagash Brewing Co.)
cc: the Booch! #VIAGreendrinks
© 2010 Dave Weinberg
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