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		<title>Kool-Aid Man Rasterbation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:17:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Beischel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every quarter we hang up student artwork on the walls of our floor. The wall next to my office door is pretty pockmarked from all the push pins used to hold up said work; it&#8217;s pretty ugly looking. Ricky thought we should cover the wall with posters, which I agreed was a great idea. We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>E-Marketing = Anime?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Beischel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Anime]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What the hell. This is a real textbook. A real textbook that costs $90 dollars. Seriously, anime? This isn&#8217;t an isolated incident either; there&#8217;s also The Manga Guide to Calculus and The Manga Guide to Molecular Biology, among other choice selections for the discriminating Japanophile who cannot function unless absorbing information via Japanese comic art. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building a Better MySpace</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:22:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Beischel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a client approach me and ask if I knew how to customize MySpace. I replied &#8220;Sure can!&#8221; thinking that it couldn&#8217;t possibly be that difficult. Oh sweet merciful Jesus was I ever wrong. Instead of elegant semantic code full of classes to hook into, MySpace is a horrible mishmash of tables, divs, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MAKE MY LOGO BIGGER</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:34:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Beischel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I could probably do a better job if I had some of this stuff: Make My Logo Bigger Cream. It&#8217;s a marketing managers dream come true. A sarcastic designer fed up with dictations from upper management? Nahhhh, that never happens. And on a side note&#8230; Just noticed that Google Ads is serving up an ad [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ash Ketchum Delivers Mail in Norway</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:39:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Beischel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Old but classy Posten, I choose you! I recently found out that the Norwegian postal service (called Posten) has changed their logo. Now, if you&#8217;re familiar with children&#8217;s cartoons at all, you&#8217;ll know that the new logo looks exactly like a pokeball from the show Pokemon. Definitely unintentional, but instantly makes the logo a joke [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Your Color IQ?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:04:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Beischel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Color]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I got linked to a Color IQ test from the Something Awful forums. It&#8217;s an interesting little exercise. There are 4 gradient ranges, each with 22 levels. Only the first and last colors are set. The rest are randomized and it&#8217;s your job to arrange them properly. The lower your final score, the higher your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Busywork</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Beischel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Business Card]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been pretty busy this week. Set the axe to the grindstone and finished the site layout for MB Design. Had it go live on Sunday, so now I can FINALLY put together business cards to hand out. It&#8217;s still a work in progress, as I&#8217;m not entirely happy with the copy, but I have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Streamline Your Workflow with Automation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 04:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Beischel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part of my job is to organize our digital photo library. I have to take all of our in-house photography and art sent to us by manufacturers and set it to 300 DPI, give it a CMYK profile, convert it to EPS and save it under the product number. This needs to be done on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Donatos New Logo Sucks</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 04:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Beischel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New &#038; Busted Old Hotness Though La Rosa&#8217;s is a far superior pizza (with full emphasis on the Cincinnati hometown bias), I&#8217;m no stranger to Donatos; a pizza chain started in Columbus, OH in 1963. Back in February Donatos]]></description>
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		<title>Pattern Generator</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 15:31:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Beischel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a little Flash demo that I made back in college. It creates a pattern by snapshotting a circle that bounces within the frame, as determined by user set variables. Specific directions are on the page. This was really an experiment in UI design; how to program tabs, sliders and a play-head, and organizing those [...]]]></description>
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