Chipotle hired director Johnny Kelly to do a stop motion commercial to tell the story of where Chipotle gets their ingredients from. The song is Coldplay’s “The Scientist” covered by Willie Nelson.

If you haven’t seen this video yet, you were bound to. Walk off the Earth covered Gotye’s Somebody That I Used to Know and absolutely killed it. With technology everywhere these days, it’s nice to see a band boost their awareness in a way that is downright impressive.

Here is Gotye’s original:

BERG has done it again. The Little Printer, releasing this year, is by far one of the coolest ideas I have seen in a while.

My single biggest inspirations are outer space and planetary science. This video should help show you why.

Yesterday, a tweet came across my feed that mentioned a new article by FastCoDesign.com. As you can see in this post’s title, it pinged both the designer and entrepreneur within me. After reading, I had to share it. The article expresses the importance of designers and design thinking in the world of business.

Go ahead and read the article for yourself.

I was pleasantly surprised to find this art in my Inbox one day. Here’s some back story on how it got there. I downloaded an iPhone app a few months back called Ghostly Discovery, which is a streaming radio station that helps you discover music based on your mood. There are 3 criteria for filtering the music:

1. The first is a mood wheel. Your options are Aggressive, Frenetic, Energetic, Neutral, Laid Back, Introspective, or Sad.
2. The second is a slider with “Digital” on one end and “Organic” on the other.
3. The third is another slider. “Faster” or “Slower”

I thought it was a pretty cool idea for an app, but I hadn’t used it in a while. Then one day I got an email from Ghostly. They do more than just music discovery. They also have art for sale through an online store.

We had the opportunity to design an iPhone app with one of our clients and it was an amazing experience. The first thing we did was buy Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps. I wanted to take a minute to share some of what I learned from this great read:

Focus Your App

There are thousands of apps, and some of them are great at what they do. The best, however, are very focused apps. When an app tries to do too much, the interactions and controls get complicated, making it less usable. Make the core of your app flawless, instead of getting sidetracked throwing the kitchen sink at it.

We’ve been going through a lot of changes as a team lately. We’re focused on improving the quality of our products while also heightening the experience for our clients. However, it made sense to take a step back and ask ourselves what we’re missing. How can we be inspired to be better? To do more? To be excited and proud of our company?

What Third Thursday Means To Us

Third Thursday means setting aside one day every month to spend time on our company and the brand we’ve worked hard to build. No client meetings and no client deadlines.Doing what we do for our clients but for ourselves. Since we’ve recently moved into a new office, our first few will focus on improving our workspace. But we’ll also use them to write blog posts, update our portfolio, further brand ourselves, post to Dribbble, spruce up all of our company touchpoints, get the finances in order, you name it. There are really only a few rules… No client meetings and no client deadlines.

I know, I know…we have violated Company Policy #43. “Never have a blog that isn’t in use.” I am particularly guilty of not following protocol and we all plan on remedying the situation. Thank you, that is all.

COMPANY POLICY #74:
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