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3 articles found from "October 2012"

Simple Cure for Apostrophe Angst

Imagine seeing your redonkulous spelling mistake plastered on banners seven-feet high at a flagship store in a major city, repeated in hundreds of other places during a countrywide advertising campaign, and then lampooned mercilessly on Twitter. Naturally, your gaffe threatens to mock you online, forever, too. That’s what happened with a 2011 Boxing Day ad campaign by Australian department store Meyers, which reminded customers that, “Early bird get’s the right size.” Embarrassing photo evidence here: http://www.news.com.au/business/myer-ridiculed-over-grammar-gaffe/story-e6frfm1i-1226236132565 An act of awful apostrophe is humiliating. ...

Art Breaks Our Heart

One of the qualities we’re most proud of here is our versatility. Members of our staff all have expertise in one creative field, but many are forces to be reckoned with in others, too. We love that about our colleagues, even when it opens doorways that demand to be walked through. Randy Hayashi has been a vital element of Odvod Media since the beginning, as our graphic designer and, at one time, our business partner. ...

Better Than Letter — A4 Paper

As an ex-pat Brit (though I hate the term “Brit”), there are many things I hanker for from the old country: cozy pubs without TVs and Katy Perry shoved down my auditory canal; a decent bacon sarnie (with brown sauce, thankyew); the misguided sense that the world generally gives a hoot about some little ex-imperious island bobbing around in the North Sea. ...