• Now Hiring: Creative Group Lead - The Integer Group

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    The Integer Group, Des Moines is hiring: Creative Group Lead. Please Note: You must become a member to see jobs posted within the last three days.

  • Bike month goods at Domestica!

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    Given Iowa's raging love for biking, we couldn't let bike month pass with nary a mention. Check it out -- beloved East Village shop Domestica has a lineup of bike posters, glasses, and other housewares.

  • #ShitToHit: Market Day is tomorrow

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    We have to say, we love the video producer Kathy Landin made for Market Day's latest show.

    "Make. Market. Love." That sounds good to us.

    Facebook says Market Day is on Saturday from 8 AM to 1 PM in the Kirkwood Building downtown. See you there.

  • Maha Music Festival puts a bird on it

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    First off, who else is going to MAHA this August? The Flaming Lips are headlining. Sure, they played DSM a couple years ago -- but they have a new album and an always-entertaining show.

    Okay, now to the real news: MAHA has a new identity, made by Omaha shop Oxide Design.

    Of the rebrand, they say:

    [We] looked to evoke the lore of the Maha while simultaneously capturing the festival’s key elements: pride, place, and independence. We found the perfect solution in the great chief of the Maha, Chief Blackbird. The Maha were the most powerful Native American tribe of the Great Plains — a people whose name inspired our city’s, and then the festival’s. Oxide developed a modern symbol for the Chief that hints at the visual style of the Plains Indians, but is still pure rock n’ roll.
    — Oxide Design case study

    Via Brand New from whom we totally ripped the title of this post.

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  • Aaron Draplin's Iowa poster is here!

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    Well, the poster is at Domestica in the East Village. An image of the poster is here:

    Via

  • Integer Launches Their New Site

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    We're a little late, but hat tip to Denver for seeing this first:

    We're not exactly sure when this site launched, but two days ago Integer tweeted, "Something is new at integer.com." So we're assuming that was their soft announcement of the new site.

    Maybe we haven't had enough coffee this morning, but we find the site oddly designed and quite difficult to navigate. There are many areas that feel like glorified PowerPoint presentations. We might be missing something — but for a global agency with 21 offices around the world, things don't feel completely cooked.

    What do you think?

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