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breakfast with (some new) views

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changes in perspective
© 2011 Suzanne Carlson

Sometimes simply changing the venue can change some other things too (especially the minivan…)

“The opportunity lies in pursuing your curiosity instead.”
Seth Godin – Poke the Box

go. do. ship.

Special Creative-My-Backyard Shout-Out to attendees of today’s TEDx Windsor!

diamond in the rough?

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perhaps neil needs to poke the box
© 2011 Dave Weinberg

Perhaps you’ve been holding on to some antiquated ideas about the way things ‘should’ be. Perhaps it’s been this way for a long time. Perhaps it’s time for a change, or at least a new haircut…

Out today under the new publishing venture, The Domino Project powered by Amazon – Seth Godin’s, Poke the Box – a tiny book filled with big ideas (not to mention a bold graphic joyful retro-clip art dude on the cover). Unlike Neil Diamond, if you’ve ever dabbled with fear, failure and/or resistance this book may just help you instigate, go, do and ship.

In other words, perhaps you need to just bring your self some flowers.

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…

“ok, how about I’ll tell you – and I WON’T have to kill you…”

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developing peace of mind
© 2010 Dave Weinberg

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make greeting cards, not war… 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 – the REAL answer!

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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it’s a constant

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and it's good.
© 2010 Dave Weinberg

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Make the change to NEW cellphoneSketchpad greeting cards!
Pixelated perfection for the holidays!

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

cellphoneSketchpad greeting cards – some things never change!

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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the opposite of EVERYTHING
on your to do list

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happy friday EVERYDAY
Isabella's Stickey Buns Cafe, Freeport, ME
© 2010 Dave Weinberg

Caution: The Blueberry Pancakes WILL transport you into deliriously delicious & sensuous (foodie) bliss*. Allow at least a full half hour before re-engagement with to do lists.

* serving suggestion tip: spring for the extra buck twenty-five for the REAL maple syrup.

isabella’s sticky buns

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

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.