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PBS Mini Documentary About Typography

Ross | March 13th, 2012

Typography is all around us. It’s on products we buy, in movies we watch, on websites we read, on street signs, and pretty much everywhere we look. Here’s an outstanding 7 minute PBS documentary about typography. I recommend you take the time to watch it if you want to understand why typography is important.

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Hey Designers: Do You Want Your Artwork Visible On Google Earth!?

Amanda | February 29th, 2012

See that round, white, dome in the picture?  Yeah, the one next to the asteroid crater? Picture a mural you designed on top of it.  That’s your potential canvas for the Bikini Lines project. [Photo by Brad Templeton, www.templetons.com, used with permission]. The Bikini Lines project is an awesome combination of art, adventure, documentation, and [...]

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12 Questions: Meet Vinay and Asha (India)

Audree | January 26th, 2012

In our 12 Questions blog series, we feature interviews with someone from the crowdSPRING community. For these interviews, we pick people who add value to our community – in the blog, in the forums, in the projects. Plainly – activities that make crowdSPRING a better community. Be professional, treat others with respect, help us build [...]

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The January cS Award and The December cS Award Winner

Mike | January 4th, 2012

Last summer, we announced that we would issue a monthly cS Award to honor quality work by designers and writers in the crowdSPRING community. January cS Award The cS awards are designed to celebrate the incredibly talented designers and writers in the crowdSPRING community and to encourage high quality work as well as community-oriented behavior. [...]

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What It’s Like To Be An Entrepreneur – Eboo Patel

Ross | January 4th, 2012

We’re thrilled to be part of a new web/TV reality series – Trep Life – giving audiences a unique, 360-degree view of what it takes to succeed as an entrepreneur. Each episode focuses on one company or organization. The first episode featured our friends Matt Maloney and Mike Evans from Grub Hub – a terrific [...]

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The December cS Award and The November cS Award Winner

Mike | December 5th, 2011

Earlier this year, we announced that we would issue a monthly cS Award to honor quality work by designers and writers in the crowdSPRING community. December cS Award This month we want to celebrate the newcomers to crowdSPRING and will give a special cS award to a creative who joined our community in 2011! So [...]

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12 Questions: Meet Svetlana (Sofia, Bulgaria)

Audree | November 15th, 2011

In our 12 Questions blog series, we feature interviews with someone from the crowdSPRING community. For these interviews, we pick people who add value to our community – in the blog, in the forums, in the projects. Plainly – activities that make crowdSPRING a better community. Be professional, treat others with respect, help us build [...]

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Sweet Music Doc Straight Out of Austin

Bianca | May 2nd, 2011

Echotone, is a stellar documentary covering life in the Live Music Capital of the World, also known as Austin, TX.  As people flock to Austin to experience its eclectic music culture, it produces a catch-22 for those working artists and their new neighbors.  Echotone showcases the fight between the preservation of the music scene and [...]

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The little things

Ross | November 24th, 2009

I sometimes forget,  when focusing on the big picture, to enjoy the little things. The graphic to the left put a big smile on my face this morning when I arrived at the office. It was posted in our forums by Spazie, one of over 46,000 creatives in the crowdSPRING community. While the Thanksgiving holiday [...]

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