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Mad Men’s “Alternate Twitterverse”

Sep 3, 2008

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I just found out that @benjamin_spock is following me on Twitter. I’m getting the feeling that I’m being sucked in to an Alternate Twitterverse generated by Mad Men. About two dozen new Twitterers have followed me over the last couple of weeks, and the majority of them have been characters from Mad Men. At first…

The Wisdom of Don Draper, Part 2: It’s Toasted!

Sep 1, 2008

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Christopher Fahey

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As promised, I’m going to begin featuring some of my favorite Mad Men scenes in which Don Draper practices exquisite creative communication. Today’s episode: Lucky Strike. One of the most thrilling parts of my job is pitching our creative ideas to clients, whether it’s when we’re trying to win new business or during the actual…

Obama Futurama

Aug 29, 2008

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Christopher Fahey

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Barack Obama’s speech was tremendous. He was strong, forceful, and honest while fighting tooth and nail for most of the fundamentally liberal ideals that I share — arguing them openly instead of filtering or even hiding them as most liberal Democratic candidates have in the past. And in the several places where he strayed from…

The Wisdom of Don Draper

Aug 25, 2008

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Christopher Fahey

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Upon a friend’s recommendation, a couple of weeks ago I started following don_draper on Twitter. More precisely, I’m following whoever is Twittering and playing the role of Don Draper, the main character and fictional creative director of a 1960’s Madison Avenue advertising agency on AMC’s critically-acclaimed series Mad Men, now in its second season. What’s…

The Peculiar 20th Century

Mar 2, 2008

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Christopher Fahey

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Fish Magic, 1925, Paul Klee It is said that a fish, even a really smart one, cannot really grasp the meaning of the concept “wet” because it is the only condition they know. There is no “dry” to compare it to. Humans, too, have a tendency to imagine that the way things are today is…

R.I.P.: Owning Music (1880-2008)

Feb 6, 2008

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Christopher Fahey

in Art, Branding and Marketing, Business, Design, graphpaper.com, History, Information Design, Interface Design, Music, Reviews, Social Interaction, Technology, The Future, TV & Movies, User Experience Design, Web

Last.fm‘s announcement that they will be allowing their users to listen to full-length versions of millions of music tracks is one of the final nails in the coffin of the traditional recorded-music industry. Owning music is dead. The new business model for making money in the music industry is simple: Design a better music distribution…

Doing Things vs. Getting Things Done

Jan 25, 2008

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Christopher Fahey

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A quick thought for this fine Friday: Something about the term “Getting Things Done” always bugged me. Now I know what it is. It’s the passive voice. Instead of the indirect phrasing using the verb “to get”, maybe we really should simply say “Doing Things“. GTD isn’t about getting other people to do things —…

Get Info

Jan 3, 2008

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Christopher Fahey

in Design, History, Images, Information Architecture, Information Design, Interface Design, Music, User Experience Design, Web

I found this on the inside of a 1950’s recording of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos, and thought it looked a lot like the iTunes “Get Info” UI. It struck me that metadata, and the graphic design thereof, has a vast history in print that is probably worth exploring very deeply when we design metadata displays for…

In Defense of Graphic Design on the Web

Nov 19, 2007

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Christopher Fahey

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At the Speak Up graphic design blog, Armin Vit laments the lack of “landmark” or canonical web designs. After giving several examples of iconic designs that are truly landmarks in the history of graphic design, from Paul Rand’s IBM logo in the 1950s to Paula Scher’s Public Theater posters in the 1990s, he writes: Myself,…

Georges Seurat Dot Com

Oct 31, 2007

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Christopher Fahey

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It’s hard to understate the pride I felt on behalf of my colleagues at Behavior when I read these words in Friday’s New York Times: “The Museum of Modern Artâ€™s elegantly plain exhibition of Georges Seuratâ€™s drawings begins with an unexpectedly extraordinary moment of computerized art viewing. Seuratâ€™s four surviving notebooks have been converted to…

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