Week 17 had Logobama.com breaking the 10,000 mark for Logobamas created, probably helped by some link love from Airbag Industries. And here’s the 10,000th one (really! not like the 5,000th one…) 10,000 Logobamas……
our thinking for June 2008…
Announcing The Substance Summit
“Do not covet your ideas. Give away everything you know, and more will come back to you.” - Paul Arden (thanks to @swestbrook for the quote) What? The first in a series of conversations with the Portland creative commu…
Logobama, Week Sweet 16
Obama announced last Thursday that he would be forgoing public financing of his campaign. This means his presidential campaign will be funded through sites like Logobama.com. So far that’s resulted in a $5 uptick since last …
Change the Culture, Change the World
“It is not a matter of business as usual, it is a matter of total innovation in business models, in operations, in marketing too. Total innovation tends to go one of two ways: ignominious failure or drastic success.” â…
Coffee with Likemind, June 20
Haven’t gotten the official word on this, but according to Likemind.us, there’s coffee with Likemind this Friday, June 20th. And since I don’t need to drop anyone off at school, I think I’ll be able to make…
Logobama, Week 15
For the past fifteen weeks, we’ve been gathering data, crunching numbers, and trying to get an understanding of what makes Logobama.com tick. And every week, it’s our duty to provide this information to you. Nineteen w…
Hacking the Light Fantastic
“Hacking means taking things that suck and making them better.” – Umair Haque From Harvard Business Press blog writer Umair Haque: http://discussionleader.hbsp.com/haque/2008/05/last_week_i_asked_how.html There are p…
Substance Rolling Coffee.
The first Substance Rolling Coffee took place on Friday, June 6th. It was kind of cold, kind of rainy, but many people braved the weather for some awesome eastside Voodoo Doughnut action. Well, four people actually biked (David, S…
Logobama, Week 14
So Barack Obama has secured the nomination to be the presidential candidate for the Democrats. We’re sure Logobama.com had something to do with this. And as Obama moves into general election mode, Logobama.com will remain op…
Substance Visual Search
Since May 2007 (when we launched this site), every story we publish in the Thinking section has an image or graphic that goes on our home page. We thought, “would it be interesting to navigate the Substance archives by these…


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