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• Conscious Thoughts, jungle [8]

  jungle [8], a Day in the Life

  04.30.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Things work a bit differently here in the jungle . We jungle dwellers pride ourselves on taking a unique approach to branding and design. We thrive on creativity and enjoy a good challenge. We are a varied group, with checkered pasts, long rap sheets and various warrants - not really though, our […]

• Conscious Thoughts, jungle [8]

  Monkeys and Typewriters

  04.25.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  I recall reading somewhere that John Steinbeck wrote all of his manuscripts in pencil, only to have them transcribed later. It seems to me that his way of writing might be considered truly organic, much as creativity should be. While by modern standards, it would be an immense waste of time to go […]

• Conscious Thoughts, graphic design

  Output Business Card

  04.25.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  I was taken over to Staples the other day to be shown some of the services they provide, services ranging from business cards to letterheads to fliers, the sorta thing a design firm is typically hired to do. I flipped through the binder at the print counter reviewing the business card designs that you can […]

• Conscious Thoughts, Design with Intelligence in Mind, green & environment, sustainability

  Sustain THIS

  04.25.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  In this month’s Communication Arts, Carolyn McCarron Sienicki writes about the growing business trend of creating sustainablity, and how designers are facing the challenge.
  Most designers, notes Sienicki, think “sustainability” just means using environmentally-friendly products. But the meaning of the term goes far deeper. “Being environmentally responsible in our design decisions is only one […]

• Conscious Thoughts, social activism

  Shift Happens - What does it all mean?

  04.23.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Lainie forwarded us this video that was created by Karl Fisch, and modified by Scott McLeod, regarding globalization and the information age:

  glumbert - Shift Happens
  The video gives us a lot to think about. These are exponential times. Although the population is growing, American does not have the educational nor the technological dominance a […]

• Design with Intelligence in Mind, advertising, graphic design

  French Ad Campaign - Love and Creepy Crawlies..

  04.20.07 | Permalink | 21 Comments

  …All I can say is, “GOTTA LOVE THE FRENCH!” Personally I think this an awesome campaign, personally challenges my comfort levels. Thoughts?

• Conscious Thoughts, advertising industry, online community

  Web 2.0 and New Media Speed towards Adolescence - What to do?

  04.20.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  When a few of us started working at jungle 8, we had never even heard the terms “New Media” or “Web 2.0.”
  But now that we’ve been here a while, these terms have become as familiar as “peanut butter” and “sidewalk.”
  Here’s what we know:
  1. The term “New Media” was most famously introduced to the masses in […]

• Conscious Thoughts, social activism

  The Neurological Make-Up of Giving

  04.20.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Our leader, Lainie, likes to forward us articles that she says, “freaking fascinate” her.
  These articles and web links run the gamut of YouTube videos, to what we all recieved today - a copy of a study led by the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, publishing in Oct., 2006, entitled, Human Front-Mesolimbic Networks Guide […]

• Conscious Thoughts, graphic design

  On Copyrights

  04.19.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  There he is - the young art student - in the corner, sporting a slouch, worn blue jeans and a faded ironic t-shirt, standing in front of the canvases he submitted for this month’s class show; large, blue, sci-fi landscapes, which, from a distance, are beautiful. They look like heavenly, undulating space-scapes of sky and […]

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  it’s monday

  04.12.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  what?
  Ryan & Justin….

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