Phizzpop Minneapolis video
Many, many thanks to Christian Erickson from Zeus Jones for alerting us to this recap video of Phizzpop Minneapolis.
UPDATE: Now you can see Zeus Jones’ entire winning presentation.
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Tag Archives: Web Design
Friday Links: Some things sure to help you pass the time until the weekend
- redblackbrown: Frivolous Friday : Alison Beattie: A short interview with Colle + McVoy’s Interactive Designer, Alison Beattie
- Letter From The Editor: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish” Gina Trapani's farewell post on Lifehacker made me a little weepy. It’s always amazing to read about people who have such passion for their work.
- - Some more random stuff on the future of internets and things: Mediation is one of my favorite local (that’d be Minneapolis for you unlocals) blog. A lot of times the content Taylor posts isn’t germane to the topic of The Nerdery, but here it is. I like his no-nonsense approach to online trends for 2009.
- Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn’t seen it) on Vimeo: I’ve never seen Star Wars either, and this woman knows a lot more than I do about. Impressive!
- Brain Traffic: Our Blog: Response to 10 Most Common Misconceptions About User Experience Design
- How to Become a Shortcut – Advertising Age – TalentWorks
- Pepsi: Then and Now
- What Will Save the Suburbs? – Allison Arieff Blog – NYTimes.com
- The new Fog Creek office – Joel on Software: Now this is a pimped out office.
- Don’t forget- a set on Flickr: Street art in Berlin that reminds viewers that all the advertising they see has been Photoshopped
- Micro Persuasion: Why Text Remains King of the Web
- Are You Facing a Lead Generation Dry Spell?
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Pretty pumped about Phizzpop
Phizzpop is a web design and development competition put on by Microsoft that travels to seven cities throughout the country pitting the best and brightest designers against each other to create some amazing websites and apps using Microsoft’s Expression Studio and Silverlight. This week Phizzpop has landed in Minnesota and the teams are already at work coming up with creative solutions to their challenge.
But that’s not what’s got us so pumped. What we’re really digging is that a couple of our nerds are helping out two of the agencies in town. Afterall, it’s kind of what we do, help out ad agencies when they need it. First, we’re teaming up with Zeus Jones, our longtime friends who we’ve worked with in the past.
Second, Microsoft asked us if we’d be willing to help out a team from Gestalt by providing them with a little programming muscle. We were, of course, more than happy to oblige. Plus, we effectively doubled our chances of being on the winning team. Go nerds!
All the teams are busy working away on their projects, and winners will be announced Thursday. If you are so inclined you can get tickets to the final event which is going to be held at Solara in Minneapolis.
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Most beautiful Web sites of 2008
CrazyLeaf Designs has named their Most Beautiful Web Sites of 2008. The choose 50 of the best CSS and Flash designs from their Web site showcase. Some of the sites are really pretty, though after a bit they start to seem a little same-y looking. A lot of them seem to have the cartoony look of a Ferry Halim game (beware: clicking that link might get you sucked into beautiful flash games and cause you to lose many hours of your time) look about them.
So here’s a questions for you, what do you think are some of the most beautiful sites on the Web?
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