- Winston Churchill

I’m finally able to display work from a project I was committed to from October to December. I worked in-house with the local design studio Fiction to produce a global campaign for Adidas’ new miCoach product and running footwear. In short, this new miCoach running/training product is Adidas’ answer to Nike Plus, with the key additional feature of a heart rate monitor. Adidas officially unveiled miCoach today in their Las Vegas Store during the CES (Consumer Electronics Show) Tradeshow.

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— C.W. Ceran

Papa Milton

I was lucky enough to catch The Long Winters at Bebati’s Pan last night. Once again, this band’s musical mastery was capable of welling-up a few tears of joy in my eye. If you have an opportunity to see them live, do it. I will personally refund your ticket purchase if you’re disappointed.

Random Observations:
1. John Rodrick is still missing a front tooth.
2. John Rodrick is now a hair farmer.
3. The new drummer did a pretty damn good job.
4. Text zombies everywhere. This is getting completely outta hand.
5. Crowd thinning out half way through the set. WTF PEOPLE!
6. Banner ad for Pearl Vodka? As in Pearl Drums? Hmm.

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Cell phone photos courtesy of Thad

Damn, I love Jay Ryan’s poster art. You know this is true if you’ve ever been to my home, as many of my walls display his work. He has produced an enormous library of show posters for many of my favorite bands. (and he makes good music to boot)

You can buy many of Jay’s hand screened posters on his website for around $30 each. This is a beautiful thing.

A cool little iPhone dock created by French designer Julien Madérou. Download, print, cut and assemble.

(via the dieline)

ISO50 (Scott Hansen) and a handful of contributors, have published an extremely useful little pocket guide to help with color management in your studio. As stated in the document’s intro, “It is not intended to be the end-all article on color management by any means — but it’s a good place to start . . . ”

Educating others about color management and how it’s handled in creative workflow can be challenging. This accurately produced online guide lends a generous helping hand.

(via surfstation)

I finally got a firsthand look at Holiday Inn’s new identity. If their goal was to completely suck the soul and heritage from this great American icon, they have succeeded masterfully. Homogenized, born again branding . . . what a shame.

For some great commentary on this subject, check out eccentric roadside blog.

Gosh, this is so true.

Go ahead, give it a shot, remove the clock from your menubar. Just for a little while. Just to see how it feels. Do you need to be somewhere at a particular time? Put it on the calendar and set an alarm to go off long enough before hand to allow you to get there. Do you need to know what time it is right now for some reason? Put the clock widget on your Dashboard. You can always put it back if you really find you can’t live without it but here is what I have found…

When you are not watching the clock, you forget about the clock and, when you do, it is incredibly freeing.

(via minimalmac)

I was able to work without my menubar clock for only a few hours. I’ve found a comfortable compromise in switching to the analog clock. The absence of numbers on this tiny clock make it more challenging to read, and in turn, less distracting.