30threads is a new local website dedicated to local blogs. They stumbled upon us checking their gmail one day, and Ginny Skalski started asking questions…

We love that Ginny toured the office, showed off our Facemods, and paid lots of attention to our dog, Angus! FYI Angus doesn’t need lipstick anyway.

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This is a story about how student designers rarely make money from their work…they do it for the exposure. This is also a story about how designers rarely make money from designing for the music industry…they do it for the love of the band and the fun of the project…and the exposure.
But 38 years after [...]

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The design of Prime Time Television is always interesting and often disturbing to me. Last night was no exception. As I went to a neighborhood friend’s house so the group of us could tune into the Democratic National Convention coverage (something we all assumed was sorta important…and assume the RNC to also be important), we [...]

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Died Young Stayed Pretty, directed by Eileen Yaghoobian, is a documentary about rock posters and their designers, some of whom are Raleigh natives, artists featured in a Designbox Rock Poster Show 5 years ago called StuckUp (Casey Burns, Ron Liberti and Dale Flattum), and one is even a Designbox alum (Dale Flattum). WOOHOO! We’re famous!
“This [...]

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In the words of Just South of the Dot blog “I HATE YOU NBC. I. HATE. YOU.”
Then Mike shows exactly how to get around their inane obsession with Beach Volleyball. Is it entertaining? A little. Olympic? Not really. Especially when you show BV instead of ancient tradtions like Hammer and Pentathlon. Some of us suspect [...]

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