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Designers VS. Developers

btoddllc — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 04:59:07 +0000

Designers and developers—though they need each other—don’t always see eye-to-eye on things. Without designers, websites and interfaces would look pretty drab and boring. Without developers, websites really wouldn’t do anything all that interesting. It’s a dynamic relationship within the creative field that is usually made fun of more than it is stressed over, but designers and developers can have some interesting back-and-forth when they’re working together.

Here’s a little early week humor featuring the opening skit of HIVE 2011, where we’re taken into an typical (read:exaggerated for comedic value) designer/developer exchange.

Brilliant Viral Marketing Campaign Using Facebook

btoddllc — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:58:50 +0000

So Ikea recently opened a new store, and to celebrate the occasion as well as promote it, they launched a viral marketing campaign utilizing the already free features of Facebook. They created a profile for the store manager, and posted pictures of their products in the profile. Whoever tagged themselves on a certain product first got it for free. Check out the video. Unsurprisingly, the campaign worked like a charm and snowballed due to Facebook’s ever-reaching exposure across the world.

Speaking of Facebook, B.Todd has a fan page now, so go check us out and become a fan! We’ll update regularly, promise.

Oh, and we are now also on Yelp!, so if you are Yelper! please go check out the page and maybe even give us a review!

Fun With Twitter

btoddllc — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:13:16 +0000

I have not yet delved into the wacky world of Twitter as a user, but I, as the rest of humanity, have been involuntarily subjected to it in the form of thousands of Twitter off-shoot websites, celebrity tweeting and limitless Twitter jokes. My personal favorite twitter-esque comedy has to be Conan O’Brien’s TwitterTracker:

Back to the post, I recently had the opportunity to design a logo for a Twitter-based website called Bar Tweet that is actually pretty promising. Basically, it collects a bunch of tweets from people out at bars so they can list real-time drink specials, reviews, etc. So if you want to find the best place to be that night, you just check out Bar Tweet and you can get a pretty good idea of where to go and possibly more important…where to avoid.

This was by far the funnest design I’ve done in a while because ideas for the incorporation of the very fun Twitter Brand was pretty limitless, and then combine that with bars and drinking, and you can come up with some pretty off the wall stuff. Anyway, The Bar Tweet guys wanted a little more serious logo, but it was hard not to make some pretty funny concepts based on Twitter and drinking. So here are some unused concepts that I came up with in the process. To see the actual final design in use, go here.