Archive for February, 2010

Cover Art: Jules Verne


Faceout Books is a blog created to showcase the latest in book design. Their latest post details a thesis project from artist Jim Tierney: a really stunning set of Jules Verne book covers. Definintel worth checking out the post at Faceout has done a great job of using the Cargo CMS to cleanly showcase the design as well as a lot of the process behind it.

The Creative World of….BANANAS


Pretty neat look/interview up over at Brand New focusing on DJ Neff’s new campaign for Chiquita Bananas. Simple, yet very solidly tied to the original brand.

Friday Awesomeness: LIGHT

Friday Awesomeness is back. Thanks to the sun finally showing its face in Oregon, this weeks theme will be: LIGHT. As always, hit the jump for the rest of the awesomeness.
Lumitectura by Barno

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Back in Action+Expedition Everest

So things on Straw Dog have been a little…slow lately. The reason being: I was in Disney World. A good time was had by all. We tried a little web2.0/social media experiment while we were there linking Twitter with the new (to us) frontiers of Tumblr and Ustream. Anyhow, great trip, super inspiring; the trip will probably affect/inspire posts on here for a while.

And since I feel it would be a wasteful post to bore you the rambling above, hit the jump for some initial impressions of Disney’s Expedition Everest ride (and a video or two).
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