Flyfire

April 27, 2012

Forward Thinking Vol. 73

Lego Super Hero Movie Maker, Zombies, Run!, Descriptive Camera, Firefly, Taking a Look at Spell Tower’s Success.

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March 26, 2012

Big Spaceship No. 4 in Ad Age’s Best Places to Work

We’re honored that Big Spaceship has once again been listed in Ad Age’s Best Places to Work, this year coming in at No. 4. They even gave a shout-out to the animals among our crew.

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March 15, 2012

Forward Thinking Vol. 67

Biologic: a lively view of social network interaction, WSJ demystifies creativity, curator’s ǝpoɔ gives credit where credit is due, design matters at Kauko Cafe, Good Books: Metamorphosis

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March 8, 2012

Introducing Blocker

In 2011, Big Spaceship and Adobe launched The Expressive Web, an interactive showcase for HTML5. We use various colorful objects to demonstrate the new features of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. We built our own tool for creating and editing these objects, which we are now making open source.

The Parable of the Preloader

January 30, 2012

The Parable of the Preloader

Before the iPhone and HTML5 elevated the spinning indicator Flash preloaders were all the rage, and there was one that quietly ruled them all. It’s forgotten history also serves as caution against the siren’s song of the [sometimes] evil Beautiful Default.

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September 16, 2011

Forward Thinking Vol. 44

Ben Hammersley’s Speech to the IAAC, Made By Hand, Reading, Quarterly Co, Influx on America’’s Creativity

Fostering a Creative Culture

July 12, 2011

Fostering a Creative Culture

Michael Lebowitz recently gave the keynote presentation at St. Louis University’’s Institute for Private Business Seminar Series. His talk, Empowering a Culture of Creativity, explains how we use our company culture and the values we’ve developed to drive innovation.

Monetizing Cool

November 30, 2010

Monetizing Cool

We’’ve all seen them. Miles Davis with his world-weary glare, James Dean’s hands shoved deeply in his pockets, Audrey in Paris or Dylan just being Dylan — photos that capture the elusive cool that establishes and defines our cultural icons.

Forward Thinking Vol. 2

October 29, 2010

Forward Thinking Vol. 02

Planning-ness 2010 Presentations, A Website Built On Twitter, One Small Step for Man, One Giant Check-In for Mankind, My iPad Magazine Stand, Brand is as Brand Does, Creative Up to 4 Times More Important than Media Plan, Rivalgrams, The New ROI: Dwell rates and Facebook “likes”

Forward Thinking Vol. 01

October 22, 2010

Forward Thinking Vol. 01

Marketing Experiments Emerge Using Facebook Places, Language of Marketing Needs to be More Human, Canvas8’s keeping TABS (September 2010), Jonah Peretti Viral Meetup Talk (Presentation), NBA Prompts Fans to ‘Check In’ With New Turnstile App, Examples of Digital Creativity, A Glimpse Into the Future.