Beckman Ad. Originally uploaded by bustbright
This is a beautiful collection of ads for science and technology (found via Coudal). I love the modernist design, the sexism of some of the ads I could do without.
You can see the entire set on Flickr put together by BustBright.
Zeus Jones with some help from a Sierra Bravo nerd took home the grand prize at last night’s finals of Microsoft’s PhizzPop Design Challenge at SXSW in Austin, TX. The Zeus Jones/Sierra Bravo team competed against agencies from Miami, New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles to, “deliver a digital experience or experiences that will engage the Austin, TX community to adopt a sustainable lifestyle.”
While many of last night’s presentations focused on recycling and making your home more energy efficient, Zeus Jones’ presentation took a different approach. They focused on getting the people of Austin to make the most of what they already have. This is a simplified version of the entire concept. You should just watch Christian Erickson’s presentation:
Zeus Jones Phizzpop SXSW Finale from Zeus Jones on Vimeo.
Also, if you’re really curious you can see a demo of the mobile app he talks about at Usemore.us.
Okay, I’m going to get a little marketing wonk on you here. What’s so great about this PhizzPop win for us, is that it so perfectly illustrates exactly what we do at the Nerdery — work with agencies to bring their brilliant, creative ideas to life. So, in case you didn’t know before now you do.
And, if you haven’t quite had your fill of hot ad agency on nerd action, make sure to check out this piece from the gang at Minnov8 featuring our own Tom O’Neill and David Annis from Zeus Jones:
If you don’t care about basketball but are entertained by advertising, Ad Week has a set of brackets for you. March ADness pits the commercials of the NCAA against each other in a tournament bracket. Each day you can vote for the commercial you like best. On April 3rd the best commercial will be crowned.
Because I’m super nerdy, I’ve already watched all the commercials and filled out my bracket. You should go do it now, too, so I have someone to brag about beating.
(HINT: Coke Zero does very well using humor, ESPN moves on because of it’s use of Guns N Roses’ “Welcome to the Jungle,” and MLB 2K9 gets by because of Wang Chung)
It seems that the only thing web nerds love more than bacon, cupcakes, and zombies might be Periodic Tables.
Here we have a picture of Matt who appears to be drawing the Pixar logo on the whiteboard wall. What you don’t see is that Jess had drawn the word Pixar on the wall earlier in the day. However, Matt could not abide having a less than stellar reproduction. If you look closely you’ll see has a printout of the Pixar logo in his hands.
That’s us, nerds who always strive for perfection.
THIS JUST IN! Matt has shared a picture of the original logo drawn on the wall:
And, if you haven’t seen it yet, here’s the trailer for Up, the new Pixar movie due out in May.
One of my fellow nerds (hi, Dave!) sent me a Wordle for Inside the Nerdery. I wasn’t surprised to see robots and charlatans represented, but I am not sure where all this button nonsense is coming from.
*Editor’s note: In my defense, I ripped off the idea of the dream Jeopardy categories from Douglas Coupland’s 1995 novel Microserfs where the characters list their seven dream Jeopardy categories
Hey, you can go watch Zeus Jones (and one of our nerds) on Monday as they present their final PhizzPop Design Challenge project at SXSW. The Zeus Jones crew has hooked up a live feed that they’ll have going at Cosmos at Graves Hotel. Get the full details and RSVP.
This will be a three part series on skinning Flex components. For part one I have chosen to dissolve the myth that Flex 3 can’t truly cascade styles. This three part series will start simple and get more complex with each post. You can use this code to mimic descendant selectors, dimensioning and multiple class names within Flex.
Problem:
Flex can’t do true cascading styles like HTML (for example a black play button)
Solution:
YES, flex can do cascading styles. It just requires a different approach. A programmatic approach. Don’t worry, I assure you that even a non-programmer can pick this one up.
Lets dive a little deeper. Cascading styles refers to the ability to start with a button, style it into a black button then go a step further and make it a play button. First, create a button and use some CSS to style various properties of that button.
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The Nerdery has been busy, busy, crazy busy lately. So busy, in fact that we’ve had actual content on Fridays instead of the weekly link dump. Now comes a busy meeting Monday, and a perfect time to get rid of these great stories that have been burning a whole in my virtual pocket.
