Happy Birthday, Drupal

On January 15, 2001, University of Antwerp student Dries Buytaert released the first version of Drupal to the open source community.  Dries had originally developed Drupal as a news site and message board that University of Antwerp students could use for discussion and content sharing.  Drupal has grown into the most popular open source Content Management System on the market,...

Our New Year’s Resolutions

Many people use the start of the new year as an opportunity to reflect  and recalibrate.  We are going through this process ourselves at the Brick Factory.

As a way of holding ourselves accountable and providing a peek as to where we think digital is going,...

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow

When I worked at The Bivings Group, we always sent out traditional holiday cards.  The cards  were amazing due to the talent we had on staff, but it always seemed strange to me to produce a printed card.  As a digital agency, it seemed to me that we should do something digital. ...

Five Inspirational Digital Campaigns

I’m happy to say we’ve been pretty slammed here at the Brick Factory, so there hasn’t been much time for blogging lately.  But I did want to quickly share some cool digital campaigns I’ve come across the last few weeks that inspired me (or more accurately, that I want to rip off in some way). ...

Steve Jobs Meets Paul Rand

The Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson features a great anecdote about Paul Rand, the legendary designer who created logos for IBM, Enron, UPS,  and ABC, among others.  Jobs hired Rand to design the logo for the first company he started after leaving Apple, NeXt.  Rand, who was in his 70s at the time and had earned the right to work on his own terms,...