My Concert to do and done list.

Been thinking about this a while and really wanted to make a list of all the shows and bands I’ve seen in my lifetime – just because. This will be an ongoing list as I remember them.

DONE

Arrested Development
The Black Eyed Peas
Blues Traveler
Busta Rhymes
Boyz II Men (Hahaha)
Chevelle (3X)
Colbie Callait (Don’t Laugh)
Coldplay (Don’t Laugh Either)
Copper
The Dave Matthews Band (12x)
David Ryan Harris
Default
The Deftones
Eagle Eye Cherry
Edwin McCain
Fergie
Fuel
Hoobastank
Kanye West
The Goo Goo Dolls
Journey
Toby Keith
Live
The Mars Volta
John Mayer (2x)
Macy Gray
MC Hammer
Marvelous 3
Jason Mraz
The New Relics
Nickelback
North Mississippi Allstars
The Presidents of the United States of America
Reel Big Fish
Staind
Sugar Ray
10 Years
311
Third Day
Three Doors Down
Tim Reynolds
Trapt
O.A.R.
Outlast
P. Diddy
Wyclef Jean

TO DO:

Aerosmith
The Beastie Boys
Ben Folds
Breaking Benjamin
Cold
Eminem
The Foo Fighters
Jay-Z
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Rage Against The Machine
Vanilla Ice
Van Halen
Weezer

My love/hate relationship with graphic design.

Today, is Valentine’s day and what better day to talk about a subject that I hold dear to my heart… graphic design. Sniff Sniff. Don’t you just feel all warm on the inside when you see a well-executed design? You know, the feeling where you just say to yourself…”Wow, that is cool” Sometimes it’s followed by the occasional… “Why didn’t I do that?” “Or I wish I’d thought of that.” Regardless, have you ever thought about how the tools we use everyday can significantly affect how much we love or hate doing the things we do? For example.

Making beautiful, thoughtful, meaningful designs on Photoshop. LOVE.

Making beautiful, thoughtful, meaningful designs on Powerpoint. HATE.

Well that’s about it. Talk later.

Hello Blog. We meet again.

I have to admit. It’s kinda ridiculous that I’ve completely disappeared from this small community I call a blogosphere. Life kinda happened and I was all over the place. I got some new ideas and I’m planning on sharing them here soon. Happy New Year. 2012 will be amazing.

Things I Hate. Part 2

I hate wire hangers.

I swear, every time I try to get them from the closet, they try to latch on to other wire hangers. And sometimes they just magically won’t get untangled. Deep down, I think they’re laughing at me when I spend minutes wrangling them up.

Might as well face it, we’re Addy’cted to Awards

What a night to be a member of the Pyxl team last Saturday as we ventured out downtown for the 45th Annual Addy Awards, presented by the American Advertising Federation of Knoxville. Just in case you missed the festivities, it was a fun night filled with great music, great food, great friends and great work by very talented agencies in Knoxville.

The main highlight of the evening came when we were announced as a Gold Addy recipient for our website, thinkpyxl.com. What a shock! What surprise! What an accomplishment! Our team is very proud of our site since it’s a major cornerstone establishing Pyxl as a brand new digital company!

Here is the list of awards we were proud to take home:

GOLD

  1. thinkpyxl.com (Business to Business HTML website)

BRONZE

  1. Help Us Name Us Social Media Campaign (Self-Promo, Single Medium Campaign – Web)
  2. Social Media Club Launch Party poster (Print/Collateral Posters)
  3. Pyxl logo (Elements of Advertising – Logos)

As if winning a Gold Addy is not enough excitement, the inner craziness and euphoria prompted half of our team to do shots at the liquor luge at the event as an initial celebratory event. We even caught it on camera (but we have to get releases from the guilty party first).

Even though we only had 4 entries, we were very happy to receive an award nod for all of them. As Pyxl grows, we plan on submitting more entries in the future.

All of the Gold and Silver Addy award winners will go on to compete on the regional level and if successful, will move on to the national Addy Awards show. So congrats to all the other winners, and good luck in the next level.

There were a handful of companies involved in putting together the awards show and Pyxl was in the forefront, spear-heading the Social Media effort to get the word out on up-coming AdFed events. We even set-up a live stream site to be seen by all at the banquet. It was great to see people’s interaction online as awards were mentioned and the crowd’s random musings throughout the evening. Also, one thing that I enjoyed is the camaraderie between fellow designers and other people in the industry.

Overall, we are very pleased at the outcome and look forward to another year of creating beautiful design and marketing projects for our clients.

Robert Palmer – Addicted To Love