Have a beer with Plaid. This is no over-produced podcast...this is a Plaidcast. Just a handful of Plaid employees in a bar, discussing our agency (www.ThinkPlaid.com), the industry, and what inspires us. Produced using hand-held Flip cameras and a couple of laptops, this podcast was digitized on the fly (at the bar!) and edited in iMovie in about 90 minutes. Simple, rough and honest.


Topics discussed:

1. Inspiration and motivation of American Copywriter (http://americancopywriter.typepad.com/)

2. Plaid's annual planning and creative inspirational trip (http://www.flickr.com/photos/viaphotogallery/sets/72157602433311051/)
+ Hand painted ads of Mexico
+ Men's and Ladies wayfinding graphics
+ Hand drawn fonts and the new book "Hand Job" (http://www.amazon.com/Hand-Job-Catalog-Michael-Perry/dp/1568986262/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-9567216-1755955?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1193671074&sr=8-1)

3. The new office Segway PT

4. Darryl's crash on the Segway PT (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpvdm86BUvU)

5. Flock, the social web browser (http://www.flock.com/)

6. Google's new social API (http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/)

7. Favorite blogs this week (http://www.ideagrove.com/blog/ and http://www.woostercollective.com/ and http://insidenikerunning.nike.com/)

8. Plaid running and sports talents (or lack thereof)

Plaid is an independently-owned design and branding firm with talents that fall uniquely between the two worlds. Stunning, award-winning design integrated into mind-blowing brand campaigns. Like a big agency but smaller. Like a design house but with branding. Like a brand communications shop but with great design. Plaid.