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Off to Chicago to check out the benefit concert on Thursday. If you’re in the Chicago area be sure to buy your tickets for a great concert for a great cause. Myspace Page Facebook Pa

So good I actually made a blog post about it instead of posting to twitter. Made by Pete Candeland and Passion Pictures.

Since Oprah is on Twitter, everyone you know is going to be on Twitter. This is inherently good and bad...

After about 3 - 4 weeks of hard work, we’ve released a fully-redesigned version of TheCommon.org. We’re really pleased with the results and even more pleased with the response from users. Big thanks goes out to all people involved. And like always, look out for updates in the near future...

If you’ve ever watched MTV or any of its properties over the past few years then you’ll recognize the work of Dan and Andre from Dress Code NY. They’ve just released a new book called “Never Sleep” focusing on a designer’s transition from art school student to working professional...

I’ll be participating in a panel this Thursday at 6:30PM at the Art Institute about the process of putting portfolios together and promoting yourself as a designer...

Great new project from Shaun Andrews of Upstate Interactive. Be sure to check out the free book promotion he’s running to launch the site! CLR is a semi-monthly online magazine focused on sharing stories of inspiration and motivation...

Video: Future Vision Montage Part of me wants to see them realize this vision. Apple could use some competition.

We’ve all been there: countless unopened or flagged e-mails, multiple to-do lists, twitter replies, facebook friend requests, phone calls that need to be returned and tons of other items. These things pile up and tend to come in waves...

All of us at Thought & Theory have come from rather strict 9-5 (sometimes even 8 - 7) jobs at various companies and advertising agencies. While that amount of work never scared us (hell, i think we work longer days now), the lack of freedom didn’t really help the creative process...

Have you ever had an urge to tell all your friends why you love something? Even if it’s small and possibly insignificant, like the love you have for girls who love beards? Well were happy to announce we created a small application to help you do just that...

We just wanted to take the time to thank all the support and coverage we’ve been getting for EMPRNT over the past month. While some of the traffic has been trickling in from CSS sites, the most traffic has come from some of our favorite design blogs and resources...

“I never failed. It just didn’t work 10,000 times. And that 10,001 it lit up.’” Speaking of mistakes, we’re going to be ramping up production on Only Human again shortly and beginning the long pathway of overhauling a lot of the existing systems. S

Great new app/platform for the iPhone by the guys at Viximo. Side Note: Apparently anything explained with a British accent makes things at least 5pts cooler. Tech Crunch The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Looks like another great documentary from Gary Hustwit.

Dennis and I will be live streaming on Ustream.tv today at 3pm EST. You can watch us in the embedded video below or on the iwearyourshirt.com Daily Shirt Show. Stop by, say hello and ask some questions about Thought & Theory! Live Broadcasting by Ustream

Happy New Year! In the spirit of the moment i wanted to share some tools that have really helped make 2008 a productive and successful year for us. 1. Dropbox - Dropbox has single-handedly been the most useful tool for us...

We have some big plans for 2009 and that involves expanding our team to make those goals attainable. We’re looking to take on another web designer to help us with client work and new internal projects coming soon...

Happy Holidays from everyone here at Thought & Theory. We’ve had an amazing year and have met and worked some very incredible people. We look forward to 2009 and thank everyone for all their support in 200

Sometimes designing for yourself is the hardest thing in the world. You second guess, over analyze and critique things to death. You want it to be perfect. You want it to be everything and a little more...

While doing my typical guy thing in the Target electronics section last night, i came across a freshly released copy of the Dark Knight DVD. I don’t buy many DVD’s, but I’ve found some pretty cool inspiration by just looking at the packaging...

Facebook just announced a new way for people to login and port over their data from site to site using just their Facebook logins. While this concept has been around for about 2 - 3 years now (OpenID), Facebook has hundreds of millions of users who can instantly use this new system...

After a lot of code wrangling, we finally released the Myspace page for Kanye West as of midnight EST last night. You can actually listen to the entire 808s and Heartbreak Album in it’s entirety for FREE right now, so stop by when you get a chance...

Might not be the most exciting topic in the world, but analytics are an important piece for any startup. I know that I am constantly checking Google Analytics for small side projects and using Compete.com to evaluate other sites...

A few months ago we started working with one of our newest clients DoInk, a place where you could share, discuss and create animations. While we love how the redesign is progressing, we love the growth of the community more...

Congrats to our friends at Viximo for their recent write-up on Tech Crunch. Virtual goods have massive monetization potential, but many sites simply don’t have the resources to build a virtual goods engine or to produce assets that its users would be willing to pay money for...

So I’m ordering some new shoes on Zappos and wanted to get them a little earlier than I originally planned to. I phone Zappos’s support line half expecting this process to be a long, drawn-out painful experience...

So I had an idea pop in my head a few weeks ago and its become a reality. The idea was to have you/companies/anyone dictate the shirt part of my wardrobe for the next year...

I have the honor of participating in a roundtable discussion on web design this Thursday for the Jacksonville AIGA Chapter. Should be a great event, and I look forward to chatting with the other great designers on the panel...

Johnathan Hoefler has taken a more direct approach into his support for Barack Obama by designing a completely typographic poster entitled “Possible”...