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Atomicdust Heads to SXSW
By the time you read this, Tara and I will be in Austin for the annual South By Southwest Interactive Festival. If you’re not familiar, SXSWi is a five-day event…
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Atomicdust Helps Stratos Launch Bold New Product
We’ve been keeping a secret from you. Over the past several months, we’ve been working on an exciting branding and website design project for a brand-new product anyone could use…
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Design Against the Competition
In business today, design is more present than ever before. From product design and branding, to razor-sharp focus on UX design and mobile experiences, businesses are using design to create…
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St. Louis is a Great Place for a Career in Design: Launching InternSTL
In 2014, I was excited (and terrified) to serve as the chair for St. Louis Design Week, an event that offered seven days of multidisciplinary, design-related activities all over our…
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Atomicdust Helps Warson Brands Debut the Reebok KRIOS
It’s a classic marketing situation. You’re introducing a new product that’s genuinely different from anything on the market. And while the product’s features and benefits are convincing, they’re also overwhelming.…
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Tips on Getting Your First Design Job
Applying for your first design job is hard work and just plain terrifying. I took a whole semester-long class just preparing and tweaking my resumé, portfolio and website to send…
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Watch the Edge: The Slippery Slope of Brand Standards
You’ve probably heard the famous quote that IBM Chairman and CEO Thomas J. Watson declared in 1973: “Good design is good business.” Under Watson, IBM was a renowned global leader…
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Building a Better Tripod for Aerial Photography
If you’ve kept up with our blog, we’re sure you’ve seen some of Atomicdust’s photography work for our clients. With photographers on staff, we have the ability to make every image…
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Atomicdust Helps Anders Ring in 50 Years
While we may have just started working with Anders CPAs + Advisors a couple years ago to refresh their brand, the accounting firm has actually been operating in St. Louis for 50 years.…
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Helping a New Onsite Healthcare Brand Change the Conversation
Premise Health. It’s a brand-new company with 40 years of experience. It’s the merger of one company known for its extensive resources, and another known for agility and service. It’s…
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Atomicdust Nominated for Five 2015 American Advertising Awards
Every year, it seems like the number of talented agencies and creatives in the St. Louis area keeps growing. That’s why we’re excited to announce that we’ve been nominated for…
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What You’re Reading: Top Five Blog Posts of 2014
We’re often telling clients how important it is to create content for their websites – and in 2014, we took some of our own advice. Last year, we created more…