Archives for “pop-art”

LP Usual Defects

About six month ago, we launched the first version of Stop the Usual Defects, a microsite for LP to promote the launch of their new ...


Be Careful with Stress Balls

What you can't see is that the liquid inside the stress ball was full of glitter -- which is ALL over Chris, his desk, his ...


Bionic Lobster

We recently launched a microsite for Leatherman's new Bionic Lobster ad campaign. The idea is that a lobster lost his claw during a struggle with ...


Detroit Diesel Redesign

About a month ago, we launched the new Detroit Diesel redesign. We were working on this site when I was first hired at Pop Art, ...


I didn't actually work much on this site, but I wanted to draw some attention to it because it's really cool. Leatherman just launched a ...


One major annoyance between the Mac and PC versions of Firefox 3 is the position of the "Done" button on the Add Bookmark dialog. On ...


I Am A Big Nerd

At a staff meeting, our CEO said "I want to be the best in the world at what I do," and my first thought was ...


Pop Art and WebVisions are teaming up for the first ever WebVisionary Awards, to be held the night before the 2008 WebVisions conference begins. It's ...


Hooray! The feedback from the web development community convinced the IE development team to change their minds about the default setting for version targeting in ...


Version Targeting and IE8

Previously on Web Developer Controversies: Aaron Gustafson from the Internet Explorer development team announced that IE8 will use a META tag to kick the engine ...


Working Late

One of our clients has a tradeshow coming up soon, so we've got a big push going on at work right now to get their ...


Pop Art is Hiring

Pop Art, the interactive marketing agency where I work, is currently hiring for several positions, including an account director, a .NET web developer, and most ...


A Few Dumb Questions

"I’d rather answer a few dumb questions than put up with a few dumb assumptions." -- Aaron Cannon, in reply to a question about whether he ...


Post-It by Number

For the Pop Art 10-year anniversary party, the creative team laid out a 20-foot-wide grid of three-inch squares on the wall of the conference room. ...


Efficiency Magnifier

"The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is ...


Skinning Community Server 2007

We recently upgraded the Pop Art Blog to Community Server 2007, and I was assigned to upgrade the templates. Dave produced a wonderful comp, and ...


For a recent project, I found myself having to convert 60+ product detail pages from the old table-based format to the new XML-based format. I ...


I had to make a slight tweak to a page on a site with a content-management system today. After spending a few minutes unraveling the ...


WebVisions 2007

It's hard to beat a relatively cheap, local conference. Last year, I attended with the design team from Pop Art and was suprised at the ...


As a web developer who prefers to use a Macintosh, I struggled to find the least painful way to test my work on a PC. ...


We're here! It's 8:50, and the big screen is showing a slideshow of photos that they guys must have taken yesterday when they got into ...