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What's the {e} house chalkboard? It's our blank slate, where we post important messages, share cool thoughts, trade new ideas and have creative fun. Stop by often for our anecdotes on growing the agency as well as our thoughts and ideas on marketing, design, business and culture. Really, our chalkboard is like any chalkboard you'd find in a home, except this one has no limits.

Digg Posts Are No Longer Awesome


April 25th, 2008 by Bob - Comments Off

Back in August, Digg announced that they would be stripping the word ‘awesome’ from their user entries because of its misuse.

Charlotte Urban Influence Artist


April 24th, 2008 by Bob - Comments Off

Rik Catlow is an artist and designer living in Charlotte, NC

Tips for Typography in Web Design


April 24th, 2008 by Aaron - No Comments

Smashing Magazine’s list of 5 Principles And Ideas Of Setting Type On The Web.

Can LinkedIn Increase Your Sales?


April 24th, 2008 by Aaron - No Comments

A free report on using Linkedin to increase your sales.

ARCHY the Movie


April 23rd, 2008 by Bob - Comments Off

A documentary film about Matt Archbold, the revolutionary bad boy of surfing.

Acid3 Standards Test is Fighting the Good Fight


April 23rd, 2008 by Bob - Comments Off

Hats off to Apple and Opera for having the only 2 browsers that scored 100/100 on the Acid3 browser test. Acid3 is doing their best to make standards first. Unfortunately, Firefox and Internet Explorer didn’t participate in the test.

Good article/check list for those of you looking to go it alone on SEO for your small business.

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Sail Wagon, Brooklyn (LOC)

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The Library of Congress has taken a great step, by creating a Flickr account, to make their photography easily accessible. At {e} house studio, we really like vintage photography, so we have gone through and picked some of our favorites from their archives.

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A simple break down of the differences between marketing, advertising, pr, and branding.

Vintage Design is Back and is Cool Again


April 22nd, 2008 by Bob - Comments Off

Retro and vintage design is being used as inspiration now more than ever. Here is a great resource to see some of those old designs and the new design that it has inspired.