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Girl Meets Addy. Leaves Feeling Ambivalent.

Like any first date I strategically planned my outfit, did my hair just right, and promised myself only two drinks. I then arrived at The Big Chill (fashionably late, of course) and surveyed the area…oh…

The History of Advertising

Have you always wanted to know the difference between a pictogram and an ideogram? Or where America’s first advertising agency opened its doors? (FYI: it was Philadelphia in 1841). Then check out www.designhistory.org. This wonderfully illustrated site begins…

Pop-up Retail Continues to … Pop Up

If new products can come and go, why can’t the stores that display them do the same? From gallery-like shopping spaces with one-off exhibitions to mobile units (Charlotte based Boxman Studios, for example) bringing big…