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the future of design in media will be ABSTRACT

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AIGA Maine presents ABSTRACT: The Future of Design in Media - IRL - Friday, June 10 @ USM's Hannaford Hall
© 2011 Dave Weinberg

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how to contain a meltdown

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the abracadabra of information

“Japan’s government has asked people living within 12 miles of the Fukushima plant to evacuate and those between 12 miles and 18 miles to stay indoors…”
–CNBC

“U.S. urges Americans within 50 miles of Japanese nuclear plant to evacuate”
–The Washington Post

Howard Stern: ‘felt like such a failure’ after first marriage ended, used sex to cope with divorce
–NY Daily News

a little perspective before going global

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sometimes the world can be grating
© 2011 Dave Weinberg

“Dang! You mean this isn’t going to be a cakewalk? I have to make choices? Stand on the side lines or get in the game even tho I could fall thru the cracks and FAIL??

“If only there was something or someone out there who could… uh… help me help myself?? To um… Poke the Box… for… oh I dunno, maybe a buck*???”

* offer good through today only… then you’re looking at a bunch of cool options for under $10…

domino project street team, IRL

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getting ready to poke the box (coming march 1)
© 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.

how to not be fenced out in ONLY 18 days
…give or take

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egypt: the next generation
© 2011 Dave Weinberg

Yesterday’s events in Egypt seem symbolic on at least two levels:

    1. The child standing up to the parent (despite the fear) and asserting her/his place in the world.

    2. The ongoing challenge of print-based daily news media as a vehicle for communicating real time events.

Had a conversation with a gentleman last evening who had only seen newspaper headlines during the day – remaining distraught and concerned over Mubarak’s fiery rhetoric and refusal to step down.

Ancient news to anyone with an internet connection or smart phone.

Projects like The Domino Project are looking at and doing things to address this today with regards to the spreading of ideas in books! Twitter and Facebook have become the digital ticker-tape of this generation. How might the Domino Project model also translate to newspapers, magazines and daily media?

Projects like Flipboard continue to explore a hybrid model bridging context, the random real-time feeds of social media, and the personal preferences of how individuals wish to consume media.

During this time of unprecedented, economic, cultural and generational change we all have our metaphorical Mubaraks and fears. What strikes me is the symbolic 18 days of exhaustively hard work and connection (across class and cultural divides) to achieving a greater, even if uncertain, common goal.

posthumous actualization
bridging metaphysics with social media

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"dang! forgot to cancel twitter"
© 2010 Dave Weinberg

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Get beyond physical with NEW cellphoneSketchpad greeting cards!

Now available for purchase:
>> ONLINE
>> Old Port Card Works, 3 Moulton Street Portland, Maine
>> Paper Moon, 1 Westbrook Common, Westbrook, Maine

cellphoneSketchpad greeting cards – makes life worth living.

See a cellphoneSketch on this site you absolutely can’t live without? Email us for high-quality limited edition custom-printed cards signed by Dave Weinberg.

Also available, framed and signed archival prints!
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eye candy

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the art of artificial flavor
© 2010 Dave Weinberg

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Or try Organic! NEW cellphoneSketchpad greeting cards!

Now available for purchase:
>> ONLINE
>> Old Port Card Works, 3 Moulton Street Portland, Maine
>> Paper Moon, 1 Westbrook Common, Westbrook, Maine

cellphoneSketchpad greeting cards – naturally sweet!

See a cellphoneSketch on this site you absolutely can’t live without? Email us for high-quality limited edition custom-printed cards signed by Dave Weinberg.

Also available, framed and signed archival prints!
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what can happen when you take
the (necessary) steps

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create (more) endless possibilities
© 2010 Dave Weinberg

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Get (almost) endless holiday card possibilities –
NEW cellphoneSketchpad greeting cards!

Now available for purchase online and in select stores:
>> Old Port Card Works, 3 Moulton Street Portland, Maine
>> Paper Moon, 1 Westbrook Common, Westbrook, Maine

cellphoneSketchpad greeting cards – worth the extra steps!

See a cellphoneSketch on this blog you absolutely can’t live without? Email us for high-quality limited edition custom-printed cards signed by Dave Weinberg. Also available, framed and signed archival prints!
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cSp special edition:
it’s all in the cards

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ON SALE NOW: cellphoneSketchpad and xBklynyte cards
at Waynflete Hands to Art Fair
© 2010 Dave Weinberg

Come check out the second half of Waynflete’s annual Artisan Fair. Hands to Art features dozens of eclectic local artisans – great unique gifts for the holidays (including cellphoneSketchpad and xBklynyte note cards 🙂

the value of design

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at Maine College of Art through Nov. 26

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

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official grand opening, Rooster's Coal Fired Pizza & Tap House, Augusta, Maine
© 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

tricked or treated

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last candidate standing
© 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.