Joseph Laffe has an interesting piece in Adweek on the need to universalize the creative function within companies: “Why departments and dynamic duos no longer get the job done.”
When I worked at TBWA\Chiat\Day, maverick interactive creative director Doug Jaeger created a new format for interactive: in addition to the copywriter and art director (20 percent technologist, 80 percent creative director), there was a wizard

We Heart It lets you heart-mark images of goodness on the web and upload them effortlessly with your bookmarks toolbar to We Heart It.

Reminds us of NOTCOT, but WHI has more of a social component, letting users add their own tags and upload profile pics.

Plus these guys like magenta. Anyone with a fondness for that enlightened color gets on our good side real quick.

Crumpler left us with a couple dozen of these awesome mini-matchboxes. The only thing that would make them cooler is if each box had a Micromachine racecar inside.

The PicLens plugin for Firefox lets you view groups of images in a “Photo Wall.”

Very handy for browsing Google Images or Flickr: it’s like looking at JPEGs in Cover Flow.

In fact, Steve is probably going to be all over this one for Safari:

“Ever get tired of having to click to view an image? Well, with the Image Wall, you don’t have

We like Shepard Fairey’s new Obama posters very much.

We touched one of them up a bit, incorporating Obama’s logo into the type. Could be better, could be different…

What do you think?

Inspired by Free Rice, two cousins from Missouri put together OneSquareFoot.org over winter recess (instead of doing this), a culture trivia game to save the rainforest one square foot at a time.

For every four questions you get right–ranging from Does the Mona Lisa have eyebrows to What does GIF stand for–the advertisers on the site preserve a 1×1 parcel of rainforest

If you think that good design might help you stick to your New Year’s resolution, check out Startaresolution.com.

The site is designed to help you stick to your goals by assigning everyone who joins a coach.

Each of the multi-colored circles represents someone’s resolution. When you sign up and add your own resolution, the person who created the circle to the