Baseball by the Beach 12:15 PM

This week I designed a shirt for Goodland Baseball. They wanted a new t-shirt design...the old one looks pretty feminine.

Check out the old one vs. my new one:

I came across this cool interview with Lee Clow this morning. I completely agree with the idea that passion inspires passion. This reminds me of one of my favorite spots of all time.

The Drawing. 10:26 AM

While evaluating some of my favorite ads and brands last night, I remembered a great story about my best friend's first visit to the Apple store. It started in December of our senior year in High School when his parents bought him the 1st generation Ipod.

After having trouble connecting the Ipod to his PC and importing music, he asked me to come to the store with him to get help.

Once we got to the store, the genius helping us seemed quite disappointed when my friend revealed that he was using a PC.

While explaining the PC-Ipod connection, he drew a diagram. The PC was drawn as a monitor with a keyboard, mouse and several external units all connected to the computer with various wires. There was also a longer wire, difficult to differentiate, connecting the Ipod to the PC. My friend was not thrilled with the explanation he was given, describing the slow transfer speed of music to the Ipod.

The man at the Apple store politely offered an alternative diagram. This diagram included the same Ipod, but with a single cord connecting it to a Mac, displayed as a single rectangle with a happy face.

We left the store and went to my friend's house to configure his Ipod to his PC. We were able to get it working pretty quickly.

Needless to say, the next week, he told me he had just purchased a Powerbook G4.

I'd like to believe that the second diagram was his reasoning for switching.

Fresh Juice 9:19 PM

Today, I came across a rad website called cards of change. There's just something liberating about recently layed-off creatives posting their business cards with personal & professional declarations.

Some of the highlights are all of the new companies coming to fruition after all of these terrible lay-offs.

In particular, I was excited to see Chris Kahle's card on the site. He caught the eye a few shot callers in the industry (most notably...Alex Bogusky) via Twitter.

Kahle asked peeps to tweet his desire to work at CP+B to @bogusky and @cpbjeff. He promised that he would donate $1 for the first 200 twats to charity. Long story short, homeboy landed a job at CP+B and a the amazing tweet shown above from Bogusky. Pretty sweet.

Is anyone else loving this spot for Toyota Prius by SAATCHI & SAATCHI?