As everyone in the country is now aware of, Chrysler ran a two minute Super Bowl spot, costing an estimated 13 million dollars for air time. It featured Clint Eastwood delivering his legendary gravely-voiced oration. Naturally all of the big ads were discussed both leading up to and following the biggest event on earth. So what does politics and Saturday Night Live have to do with this? With today’s relentless

So if you are familiar with Pinterest you might have noticed that it is rather, well, girly. Lots of cute clothing, home decorating ideas, and delicious baked goods. So what is a man to do? Well the Internet never leaves a void empty long, and we have now found Gentlemint. Complete with bacon-look band aids, motorcycles, knives, and quotes from Airplane!. But don’t be too alarmed, it is still the

Final tally from our January challenge: We made 48 new friends and we collected 48 items for the Community Food Cupboard! Riley almost tipped over holding the box of food for the photo. We are happy knowing your participation is helping a great local charity. A food cupboard embodies the same spirit as our community: no person and no town is alone. We all contribute to our food cupboard —

Through the end of January, you can click food onto someone’s table. We are donating  one food item per Facebook  “Like” to our  local food cupboard. We want to be clear about this, though—you have to “Like” Temblor Creative’s page on Facebook, not this post to get a donation credit.  It works for  The Image Loft too. “Like” them and they’ll donate food. The window display at The Image Loft

On Monday, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, we launched a food drive on our Facebook page, overnight it was a huge success. For every like our page receives, we buy one food item for the Manchester Food Cupboard. On Tuesday our friends (and family) down the street at The Image Loft joined in on the effort their Facebook page, only to build even higher on that success. But we are

How can you enter into the spirit of Martin Luther King Day—really inhabit the feeling of helping others in need—and still have a playful Monday holiday? Temblor has the answer! For every new Facebook “Like” Temblor gets from today (Martin Luther King Day), until the end of January, we will donate one non-perishable food item to our local food pantry.  Why is this especially important now? In Vermont, 14% of

I’ve just accepted my invite to Pinterest, on which I’ve been a voyeur for a couple of months. Now that I’m on, I discovered I didn’t actually know what to do, and then — Lo & Behold! — Mashable decided that today was the day* to educate us all. Halelujah! The quick run-throughof how to Pin and why (and how to become a “cutting edge user” –uh huh, that’s gonna be me),

At Temblor we received confirmation today from Pantone that we are absolutely on the right track! As they do each year, Pantone just announced a new Color of the Year. The Color of The Year for 2012 is Tangerine Tango – a delicious, rich, vibrant orangey-red that is almost EXACTLY the color we use in the Temblor logo. We are only a couple of drops away from Tangerine Tango and

IBM just came out with a report that says the dizzying heights of Manolo Blahniks are coming to an end and that this is a good indicator of a return to a more solid, upbeat economy. Get out your Birkenstocks and get ready to dance in them!  

We were fortunate to be invited to attend a workshop on “Decoding the QR Code” hosted by the Berkshire Chamber of Commerce and Excelsior Printing. The workshop was held at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown. All of these elements added up to an interesting, fun learning experience with a collegial networking gathering afterwards. Kudos indeed to co-presenters Ashley Sulock of the Berkshire County Chamber and Julianne Fruscio of Excelsior —

The front page of the NY Times Arts section this past Monday features a captivating review by Janet Maslin of a new book, Just My Type by Simon Garfield. The review is well worth the read and, if the new book does as well at popularizing font knowledge as another on an arcane subject (the ubiquitous Eats, Shoots & Leaves which brought punctuation out of it’s school marm attire and

What a wonderful, explanatory, well-designed tool! We love typography—so much design depends on it—but sometimes we forget that not everyone is as familiar with all the terms and nuances.