http://thehappycorp.com/words Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:43:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We'd never heard of Cameron Hughes nor Johnny Bunko before this morning. They arrived simultaneously, through a pair of vastly different web publications. Ones a man who attends sporting events, the other is a comic book. But when they came 'round the mountain, they came singing the same song. Jonny Bunko ... http://thehappycorp.com/words/index.php/2008/06/26/there-is-no-plan/ You Look Great Today, our participatory feel-good machine is profiled in this month's installment of Creativity, two pages away from the closing titles of Iron Man. Our project endorses the well-being and self esteem of society by highlighting the greatest qualities we all posses. Iron Man endorses justice with rocket ... http://thehappycorp.com/words/index.php/2008/06/24/ylgt-in-creativity-magazine/ You thought it was gone, like the dinosaurs. But now its back, like Jurassic Park. That means your Friday is that Ford Explorer with the crazy paint job, and thehappycorp is a giant T-Rex foot stomping it into the mud. To celebrate, we're going to be giving out custom tattoos. ... http://thehappycorp.com/words/index.php/2008/06/19/return-of-thehappyhour-friday-june-20th-2/ Our friends at idealist, famous for their non-for-profit job board, are helping the job market by making it easier for organizations to post jobs on their website.  They are waving the $60 fee to post jobs for the entire month of june for free. Yes, it's already june.  Check out ... http://thehappycorp.com/words/index.php/2008/06/02/idealist-gives-free-job-postings-for-the-month-of-june/ We’re showing our pink pride this week after news broke that Deutsch Telekom, the parent company of T-mobile, lost one of their court battles in the war to control all things Magenta. They’ve been slapping around little guys for a while and this time the lowly offender was Telia, a rival ... http://thehappycorp.com/words/index.php/2008/05/29/deutsch-telekom-loses-magenta-suit/ Recently I was asked by Christopher Bateman of Vanity Fair to give some perspective on how the current political candidates are using the web to build grassroots support for their campaigns. You can see the article here. One of the things that I noticed from VF, was that we included ... http://thehappycorp.com/words/index.php/2008/05/23/political-military-campaigns-on-vanity-fair/ thehappycorp spends a lot of time thinking about things.  One of the things we think about most is how brands communicate to people. Recently I have bumped into a couple interesting brand tools.  One is called Brand Tags, it explores the relationship with brand logos and a consumers one word ... http://thehappycorp.com/words/index.php/2008/05/22/what-time-is-your-brand/ 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 ... http://thehappycorp.com/words/index.php/2008/05/22/the-wrath-of-cannes/ Behance is in the thick of it, surveying New York creative leaders for a better idea of how they keep their talent happy and focused. How to fight off the possibility of wasting individual talents within the agency model, how to delete the possibility of compromising personal goals in favor ... http://thehappycorp.com/words/index.php/2008/05/08/engage-focus-invigorate/ Last night we went to the 87th Art Directors Club Awards Gala, an event we creative directed with help from Trollbäck. The keystone of the design aesthetic was The Wall, a 58 foot swath of white that designer Jon Chonko traversed for two days with a carpenter's pencil, painstakingly writing THE ... http://thehappycorp.com/words/index.php/2008/05/02/adc-gala-the-wall-djs-gold-cubes-purple-ice-cubes-and-origami-cranes/