Stephen Fry bent then broke the space-time continuum by reaching 1,000,000 Twitter followers on November 15th, 2009. His message to us from the near-future Twittertopia of 2034 is both cautionary and redolent with direct eye contact.
Though we frankly prefer him as “that well-spoken guy from every incredibly British movie in recent memory. Yes, that includes this, and this, and lord help us, this.
We are very proud to announce that Marlin Network Money Lady Extraordinaire Erin Owens (pictured above, not yet pregnant, bemasked and astride a shopping cart) is the proud mama of a healthy baby girl. Congratulations, Erin and Keith. Can’t wait to meet your next of kin.
The “largest gathering of skeptics in the Midwest” will descend on Missouri State University this weekend for Skepticon 2. Yes, a gathering of vociferous, diehard atheists, right here in the buckle of the Bible Belt. Should be a good show.
More on the event here, which evidently is being put on by the local chapter of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, one of this author’s personal favorite internet/outronet sensations of recent years.
Google is offering free wifi to travelers in several airports and hotels across the country for the holiday season. This is how they’re communicating it, in print and digital. (Saw it in the San Jose airport.)
So simple and perfect. Nicely done.
Nobody tears type apart like Marlin friend and über talent, David Croy. As evinced in this sweet love letter he wrote to the Art Directors Club concerning their new logo, entitled The New Art Directors Club Logo Is Total Dogshit.
It’s a nice follow-up to a post he wrote a few months back entitled The New ‘Public Enemies’ Lettering Is Total Dogshit, a piece that managed to provoke a response from the Public Enemies poster designers themselves.
Actually, on the Art Directors Club logo, Dave takes exception not with the entirety of the mark, but with the r-t letterspacing. Which makes his post all the more enchanting.
Agree with his assessment or not, we think the fact that he’s even asking the question is a step forward for all type kind.
Marlinites Rob Nelson and Brian Collins are brothers in arms (or rather, faces) this month, growing out their facial hairs in support of Movember.
Click below to read more from the rapidly hairing men themselves. There’s also this lovely gallery of participants on Gizmodo.
Our Grilled and Lonely campaign for Bush’s Best Foodservice has been named as a finalist in the upcoming Digital Publishing and Advertising Awards.
We’re proud as hell our online dating service for grilled meat is getting a little recognition, and equally as thankful we’ve got a smart, trusting client who lets us do these sorts of admittedly crazy things.
Letterhead Fonts is featuring Marlin work done for Sweet Street Desserts. Take a look!
The piece was a gorgeous, perfect-bound book, ostensibly holding the secrets on How to Fulfill the Demands of the Art of Pastry Chefdom,. In reality it offered up a mouth-watering compendium of Sweet Street Desserts (which help you fulfill said demands without, you know, actually having to be a pastry chef; in a word: cheat!).
Letterhead fonts is a type foundry that specializes in mostly vintage display faces. The have a contest running until the end of the year for work done with their fonts. Marlin designer Brian Collins used LHF Quaker for the principal type on the cover of the Sweet Street Desserts book. Winners will be chosen in January.
Kudos to designer Brian Collins, writer Judith Garson and Creative Director Michael Stelzer for the delicious work.
Do you know the way back from San Jose? We do. In fact, we’re on it right now.
After two full days of talks and panels and mingling and tweeting (oh lord, the tweeting), Shawn and Chris are headed back to Missouri, chock full of ideas.
The Social Media World Forum was a great experience, and we can’t wait to share all this goodness with co-workers, clients, the guy bagging our groceries, random naked strangers in the gym locker room. You get the picture.
Marlin ACD Chris Rock and The Alchemedia Project Creative Director Shawn Finger are in San Jose today and tomorrow, attending the Social Media World Forum. We’re hoping to pass along tidbits and commentary, some snarky some not, throughout the conference via our Twitter feeds (@marlinco and @jointheproject), which would be oh-so-social of us. You can also follow #SMWF.
