Rolling through the Bay - Scott Weaver

San Francisco’s favorite tourist sites as kinetic sculpture

Now this is a piece of work. 35 years, 3,000 hours, and 100,000 toothpicks resulted in this incredible kinetic sculpture created by Scott Weaver. The elaborate sculpture, named Rolling through the Bay, features multiple “tours” that move pingpong balls through neighborhoods, the waterfront, historical sites, and iconic symbols of San Francisco. See close up images [...]

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Thinking outside the CVB blog box

While I was hunting and gathering a collection of attractive destination blogs, I nearly included two of my favorite hyper-local blogs – which aren’t managed by CVBs or DMOs. Alas, they deserve their own shout outs. After all, these commendable blogs are the efforts of tourism-dependent businesses: a big city hotel and a small town [...]

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Why I love working with biz’s that GET social media

Most of my design clientele, like restaurants, hotels, event marketer-types, have been very slow to get on the Social Media bandwagon. Not for lack of interest (mostly) but for lack of time and inclination. After all, its just one more thing they’ve got to manage in their busy schedules. As far as they are concerned, [...]

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Motivation and inspiration from your desktop

For several years I have been going a bit ADD with my desktop wallpapers. I use to download other people’s beautiful shots of nature or travel experiences, or pasted on a friend’s pro photography wizardry or pop culture thrill of the month. MOOD BOARDS Enter the mood board. As a designer, I often put together [...]

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Ad campaign inspired by a Tweet

ARE YOU READY FOR SOME AWESOME? A slew of print ads is about to hit the Seattle area, in a variety of visitor guides and hotel area to-do magazines. Through a mutual acquaintance, the über unique Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum & Hall of Fame was referred to me for some ideas on [...]

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