Category: Inspiration

Swedish Fish Are Only The Beginning

Cola snakes, lemon gummy hearts, strange chalky hard candies tasting mainly of salt, bi-color gummies that seem to claim medicinal properties, yogurt-covered candies, squishy fruit gumdrops with strange menthol undertastes.  Recently a couple of members…

Sure, they’re cute – but can office dogs reduce stress?

At birdsong gregory, we spend a fair amount of time devising new ways to boost creativity, encourage collaboration, and limit the inherent stress in our Charlotte ad agency. One easy solution? Bring in the dogs.…

Who Made That Pantone Chip?

If you've ever worked in advertising, graphic design, apparel, or dozens of other aesthetically-inspired fields, then you know how important a role the Pantone color system plays. After all, one designer's concept of "taupe" is…

A Beautiful Daily Design Exercise

As the creative director of our Charlotte-based shopper marketing agency, I’m always looking for online sources of inspiration, and here’s a good one. Tilman Zitzmann is graphic designer in Germany who took a year off…