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10 November 2008

Logobama, Week 36 – Special Post-Election Edition

Photo from Flickr by b_d_solis November 4th has come and gone. As we said the other day, what started as an online experiment has resulted in the election of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States. Was Logobama.com…

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28 October 2008

Hallobama is on Baracktober 31st

This year, the month after September is Baracktober. And on Baracktober 31st, we’ll be celebrating Hallobama. In honor of the holiday, we’ve launched a new color theme on Logobama.com… upload your photo and selec…

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posted by Stephen Landau

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20 October 2008

Interesting and Interesting.

We’ve had the pleasure of working with some great clients over the last twenty two months. One of the things we’ve done for many of our clients is enable them to share their stories, thoughts and perspectives with their…

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posted by Stephen Landau

thinking about… Coffee, Elsewhere Online, Inspiration, Projects & Recognition

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18 September 2008

Progress on SWHQ 3.0

Above: The second Substance Long Table under construction Things have been a bit quiet here on the site, but not because we haven’t had stuff going on. We’ve just been spending our free time (as well as much of our no…

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posted by Stephen Landau

thinking about… Experiences, News & Updates, Projects & Recognition

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18 August 2008

The People’s Coast Believes in Substance

One of the pleasures of living in Portland, Oregon is the proximity to the Oregon Coast... with the closest points being about an hour away, it's temptingly close, and it's call is hard to ignore. Plus, we've been thinking about the coast for the last few months while working on the new Oregon Coast Visitors Association website, which launched last week.

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posted by Stephen Landau

thinking about… Elsewhere Online, News & Updates, Projects & Recognition, Reviews, What's Next

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14 July 2008

RYZ believes in Substance

RYZ is a new footwear company that is combining new manufacturing technologies, democratic design practices and online social networking and community. Ryzwear.com provides the opportunity for anyone to be a shoe designer. Yes, ev…

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posted by Stephen Landau

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9 June 2008

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…

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posted by Stephen Landau

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5 June 2008

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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posted by Stephen Landau

thinking about… Coffee, Elsewhere Online, Experiences, News & Updates, Projects & Recognition

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28 May 2008

Authentic Boing Boing action.

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/05/28/bbq-sauce-authentic.html Looks like the Authenticity super duo Joe Pine and Jim Gilmore got a nod from Boing Boing today. It could be because of the mention of BBQ sauce (who doesn’t like…

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23 May 2008

It’s not about awards, but they are nice.

Substance picked up three awards at the first annual Webvisionary Awards event on Thursday, May 23, 2008. We were recognized for Oden or Durant (Advertising category), bambu (Business category) and Logobama (Viral category). ̶…

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