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

Sep 1, 2008

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in Art, Behavior, Branding and Marketing, Business, History, Personal, Reviews, TV & Movies, User Experience Design, Work

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

in Business, History, Information Architecture, Interface Design, Personal, Politics, Reviews, Social Interaction, Technology, The Future, TV & Movies, User Experience Design, Web

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

in Art, Branding and Marketing, Business, History, Personal, Reviews, Social Interaction, Storytelling, TV & Movies, User Experience Design, Web

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…

Tri, Tri Again.

Jul 22, 2008

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Christopher Fahey

in Cycling & Running, NYC, Personal

At 11:01am Sunday morning, in 90-degree heat, I crossed the finish line in Central Park and completed my year-long goal of finishing the New York City Triathlon. I was exhausted and frustrated (more on that later), but at that moment, as soon as I stopped running and realized I was done, I was overcome with…

OMMA Nom Nom Nom

Jun 17, 2008

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Christopher Fahey

in Branding and Marketing, Business, graphpaper.com, NYC, Personal, User Experience Design, Work

I am going to be speaking today, June 17th, at the OMMA Publish conference here in New York City, on a panel entitled “Optimizing for Performance: Adding Value to Your Site”. OMMA is focused on online media marketing and advertising, publishing several trade magazines and sponsoring several conferences each year in these areas. My panel…

Interview: IA in the Public Sector

May 28, 2008

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Christopher Fahey

in Information Architecture, NYC, Personal, Politics, Social Interaction, Technology, User Experience Design, Web

UX Social is Olga Howard‘s new initiative to investigate connections between user experience design and public policy. Recently Olga has been interviewing information architects about their views about IA in the public sector. She interviewed quite a few of us at last month’s IA Summit in sunny Miami. Her interview with me is now posted…

Flickr Usr

May 26, 2008

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Christopher Fahey

in Business, Interface Design, Personal, Reviews, Technology, User Experience Design, Web

I’ve always loved Flickr, but I’ve never had the time to really use it as diligently as many of my friends apparently do. The Flickr Uploadr software always seemed a little wonky to me, and I didn’t savor the idea of sorting my photos locally in folders or in iPhoto and then having to repeat…

My Third Race

May 19, 2008

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Christopher Fahey

in Cycling & Running, graphpaper.com, NYC, Personal

I am currently training for my first triathlon, the New York Triathlon on July 20. (Holy crap, that’s only 9 weeks away!) Anyway, last weekend I competed in the Prospect Park Mother’s Day Duathlon right here in Brooklyn. This was my second duathlon (I ran my first one last August), and this time I did…

Spring Ahead

May 18, 2008

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Christopher Fahey

in Behavior, Personal, Work

Two months ago, I tweeted the following cry for help: Over the last several months I have made some tough choices about what to devote my time to. And “blogging”, unfortunately, didn’t make the cut. In short, I have been extremely busy doing things other than blogging. In the next week or two I will…

Masolit

Mar 18, 2008

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Christopher Fahey

in Art, graphpaper.com, Music, NYC, Personal

My wife is tinydiva. She is a musician. Her band is called Masolit. They are awesome. Seriously. And you should see them play their world debut performance live this Saturday in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Timing: Saturday, March 22, 2008 7:00 pm: The Creationists 8:00 pm: Masolit Location: MTAA 60 North 6th Street, 2nd floor Williamsburg, Brooklyn,…

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