Friends,

This Friday, October 3rd, from 6:30-8:30, we are hosting our first ever animated gif competition happyhour. To enter all you have to do is email your favorite animated gif to yourfriend@thehappycorp.com. Then, come enjoy $1 Dewar’s, happyhour style, and vote on the best of the best while rubbing shoulders with our growing network of amazingly creative friends at White Rabbit. The winner gets to go

Is Cannes the most prestigious award show because of the talent, or the location? Are they really tipping their cap to the industries greatest, or simply riding the coattails of the famous film festival.

Some local heroes have decided that if you’re not headed to the French Riviera this
year, you owe it to yourself to visit the New York Riviera. Coney Island. Amidst Shoot the Freak, The Cyclone, and

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

Because many of us are designers, what started as an inter-office email about a new kit to police bad design, quickly turned into a one-off design collaboration. We made up the rules as we went.

Last weekend Dave Franzese, designer for aaarrr, and Erin Sparling of thehappycorp global put on short-shorts to become the two most important buttons in gaming, A+B, for the world premier of the Wii tennis tournament, Wiimbledon, at Barcade in Williamsburg.

Dave and Erin joined a menagerie of other costumed competitors, including one guy in a giant bear costume, a sauced Harry Potter,

The list of Webby Winners and People’s Voice Winners for the 11th Annual Webby Awards has been unveiled at Webbyawards.com.

We’ve got the inside track on this: thehappycorp founder, Doug Jaeger, was on the panel of judges made up of members of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences responsible for the exhaustive task of finding the best the net has

Doug Jaeger, founder of thehappycorp global, is the cover of Brandweek this week. Doug, “the underground party impresario,” is on Brandweek’s list of the hottest young marketers for making thehappycorp more than another marketing agency. “Brands need to stop having taglines and start talking to people as well as providing content they care about,” says Doug in the interview by