• Chris Robb Receives AAF Silver Medal Award

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    Push partner and Chief Creative Officer Chris Robb recently received the AAF Silver Medal Award.

    This award has been presented annually for the past 53 years, recognizing individuals who have made outstanding contributions to advertising, have furthered the industry's standards and achieved creative excellence in their respective areas of expertise.

    Congratulations!

  • When We Build

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    Wilson Miner - When We Build from Build on Vimeo.

    This fantastic talk by Wilson Miner was given at the 2011 Buildconf.

    In his talk, Wilson asks: What happens when we stop thinking of ourselves not just as developers or experience designers, and take up the mantle as a new generation of product designers for a digital world?

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  • Jason Gregory on grain&gram

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    grain&gram recently posted another nice feature on local designer Jason Gregory of Makr Carry Goods. It's a great interview with an inspirational local craftsman, and surely worth a read.

    http://grainandgram.com/jasongregory/

  • A Journey Down O.B.T

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    Local photographer Bryan Soderlind recently posted one of the a wonderful example of photojournalism, taking viewers on a journey down Orange Blossom Trail.

    U.S. Route 441 is a north/south highway that runs over 400 mile long from the north border of Georgia down to Miami. For a short section in Central Florida, US 441 becomes Orange Blossom Trail or “The Trail” Though OBT technically runs from Tangerine to Kissimmee, FL most people consider “The Trail” the 7 mile stretch from HWY 50 in the North to Sandlake Road in the South. Lined with pawn shops, strip clubs, sleazy motels, and sketchy bars, The Trail is a hotbed for seedy characters and criminal activity. Over 75% of the prostitution arrests in Orange County happen on this stretch of road, one drive down the Trail and it will be apparently obvious why. While the Trail may not be a great place to hang out it still is one of the main roads in our city and one of the fastest routes to some of our major highways. People of all races, classes, and backgrounds walk and bike the street to their destination, something very rare in Orlando. Add this to the mix of eclectic businesses and the Trail just feels ALIVE. Driving down the street I always find myself rubbernecking as I regularly drove down OBT en route to my friends house off Oakridge near the south end. Eventually this led to U-turns and some of the bolder moments in my photographic life. Stopping on the trail and photographing various people became commonplace, it seemed like almost once every trip down the street. As the years have gone by I realized I amassed quite a few photos from the Trail and the blocks surrounding it. Here is my ode to the Trail, my favorite road in Orlando.

    View all the images here http://journal.bryansoderlind.com/uncategorized/orange-blossom-trail.html

  • Yellow Shoes Dominates at ADDY Awards

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    Disney's Yellow Shoes Creative Group took home 8 gold and 11 silver Addys spanning the following categories: Book Design, Mixed Media, Photography, Special Event Invitation, Online Games, Radio, Internet Commercials, Television, Logo, Illustration, and Sales Kit.

    Think Creative and PUSH also took home a handful of golds and silvers.

    Valencia Community College's Caspar Blattmann won Best of Show and a boatload of golds and silvers as well.

    For more on last week's Addys, read this article on the Sentinel.

  • Shattered CD Art

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    In his mixed media sculptures of animals and insects artist Sean Avery creates fur and feathers using meticulously layered fragments of broken CDs. Love the colors. See more over on DeviantArt.

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  • ADDYS Tonight

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    The Orlando ADDY awards are tonight, here are the details:

    Friday, February 17, 2012
    6:00pm - 10:00pm

    at the Abbey & the Mezz
    100 S. Eola Drive
    Orlando, FL 32801

    http://www.theorlandoaddys.com/

    Join us at this year's ADDY award show as we celebrate Advertising Through the Ages. Our black and white themed Gala event will be the talk of the town, but we all know that everyone will be thinking silver and gold. The evening will begin with hors d'oeuvres and drinks at The Abbey and then move upstairs to The Mezz as we reveal the 2012 Orlando ADDY winners! Plus, you won't want to miss the after party back downstairs in The Abbey, so be sure to secure your tickets now!

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