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On Location: Video Production with BMW Motorrad
Every two years, BMW Motorrad – the motorcycle-focused sub-brand – organizes an off-road adventure ride called The GS Trophy. It challenges competitors from nineteen nations to see who is the…
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Atomicdust Wins Six Health + Wellness Design Awards
Atomicdust was recently awarded six Health + Wellness Design Awards from Graphic Design USA, honoring our work for Premise Health, Revel Kitchen and Better Life Natural Cleaning Products. For more…
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The 4th Annual Midtown Alley BBQ: Bigger and Better Than Ever
We knew this year’s Midtown Alley BBQ would be bigger and better than ever (after all, there was a Bubble Bus), but your support exceeded all of our expectations. With…
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Buildingstars Changes the Story With New Branding and Website
Picture this: your company can’t promote its greatest strength because the market sees it as a weakness. More on that in a moment. Last summer Atomicdust began working with Buildingstars,…
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Vote to Make SXSW More Boring
Last spring, I made my first trip to Austin for SXSW. After five days, I left with a notebook full of quotes, tips and little sketches that I find myself…
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The Outsourced CMO
As more corporations bring their creative teams in house, I thought I would talk about another marketing trend we’re seeing a lot of these days: the outsourced Chief Marketing Officer…
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The Journey and the Destination: A New Site for PGAV Destinations
In the fall of 2014, John Kasman and Ben Cober offered Atomicdust the opportunity to help global design and planning firm PGAV Destinations tell a more focused story on the…
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On Culture
I wanted to take a minute to talk about something that is very important to me: culture. Atomicdust and myself were recently featured in an article by the St. Louis…
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How Good Press Almost Turned a Rebranding Project on Its Ear
Imagine a world where positive, glowing press – on both a national and local stage – is not part of the plan… at least not yet. That’s exactly what happened as…
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The Tale of Business Prom
The best ideas start in hotel bars. At least, that’s where the idea for Business Prom was born. A few years ago, Mike, Jesse, Erika and I were in Philadelphia…
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Patrick Shannon: Web Developer and Pretty Much Anything Else You Can Think Of
Atomicdust’s newest hire, Patrick Shannon, is already a familiar face around the office – he’s been freelancing with us on web development projects on and off for the last few…
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Good Design is Ruining the Internet
When people complain about education today, they usually accuse teachers of “only teaching the test.” As I evolve into a bitter old man, I feel that with the popularity of…