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  • Bike month goods at Domestica!

    May 22nd, 2013 / Comments (0)

    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.

  • Taco Bell targets models with love notes, jewelry

    May 22nd, 2013 / Comments (0)

    A handful of "special ladies" -- models, all -- recently received a package from Taco Bell corporate. Each package contained a love note, a gift card to TB, and two script rings. The hope was, these women would take to the internet with their gifts -- and they have! Of course the takeaway from all this is supposed to be that hot ladies love Taco Bell.

    Via.

  • #ShitToHit: Market Day is tomorrow

    May 17th, 2013 / Comments (0)

    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.

  • The LARPing League

    May 17th, 2013 / Comments (0)

    Great posters, killer concept, nicely designed, and simple. Sends the message that all one needs do to get started is show up.

    Via.

  • Maha Music Festival puts a bird on it

    May 16th, 2013 / Comments (0)

    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.

  • Submit news and work to the Egotist

    May 16th, 2013 / Comments (0)

    This site is run on the submissions of our betters. Using the form on this page, we actively encourage you to submit any information that will help make us the trusted creative resource for Des Moines. Please be as detailed as possible with the background and context for the information you’re sending.

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  • Have you had your eyesight tested recently?

    May 14th, 2013 / Comments (0)

    Watch the video, then read on.

    DraftFCB Toronto made this tricksy ad in conjunction with a tricksy poster equipped with speakers. Nice work! We at the Egotist are all good. You?

    Via.

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