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 heard the megaphones a mile away this morning, opened up the windows and looked down on Centre Street to see the banners blowing and colors flying: Tibetan National Uprising Day, commemorating the day, 49 years ago, when Tibetans took to the streets in protest of the Chinese occupation.

The struggle has not waned since. The latest pressure point are the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Protesters are calling for

SERIOUS PLAY is an immersive cultural experience at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena CA.

The three-day conference has compiled an incredibly diverse list of presenters, including a homicide detective, an origami virtuoso, the CEO of IDEO, the founder of the National Institute for Play, hackers, authors and architects.

This year’s attendees will be the first ever to play through hands-on studios with the Conference speakers. This might mean

Commandshift3 is like Kitten War, but for websites.

It went live today with design and functionality brought to you in part by former thehappycorp employee Erin Sparling.

Send your own site or any site to Commanshift3 and they’ll throw it in the deathmatch.

Vote for your favorites and watch the losers coagulate at the bottom with Microsoft and Myspace.

Go blow it up. Make

We’ve been following T-Mobile parent company Deutsch Telekom’s quest to patent the color Magenta for several weeks now.

Well, they got it. Color No. 395 52 630, also known as magenta, is now a registered DT trademark, along with T-Mobile’s two color logo.

According to Colour Lovers, since DT trademarked magenta in the tele-communications sector it means that T-Mobile could shout copyright infringement on anyone using