Every week, we’ll summarize the week in Brandstack. Every week, you will read it. Glad we had this talk.
We’ve been really busy with getting ready for SXSW this week, but one thing always remains constant: there’s a steady stream of great designs from our super talented designers. But don’t just take our word for it. You can go back through our weekly wrap-ups and see for yourself. Check out what was posted and sold this week.
— Spill by ocanadesign – 47 springs
— Silvertree by Little Sprout – 42 springs
— BBQ Notes by ethereal – 41 springs
— networkerss by DoubleU! – 41 springs
— Show Thoughts by uneekGrafix – 30 springs
Yesterday we had the pleasure of walking Alan Weinkrantz, PR extraordinaire and Express News columnist, through our preparations leading into SXSW on Friday. He brought in some fantastic pizza (too kind, sir) and we gave him a little taste of what it’s like “living” in a start-up like we do. (For me, being in a start-up apparently means I need more sleep… those are some massive bags.) You’ll see some other friends in the video like Pear Analytics and MailFinch (if the name sounds familiar, he’s a fan of Brandstack too). Ignore the mess, we’re not normally that sloppy.
If you’re going to SXSW, feel free to stop by and say “hi”, grab a shirt, play some RockBank, record a video. Our friends and office mates at Pear Analytics will be at the booth next to us, so it’ll be a party! Can’t wait to meet you!
Check out the full article by Alan at http://voices.mysanantonio.com/sxswlive/2010/03/48-hours-to-go-how-four-san-an.html.
Follow Alan and Nan Palmero as they explore everything San Antonio folks are doing at SXSW on http://voices.mysanantonio.com/sxswlive/.
All companies were start-ups at some point and some remember their roots better than others. We’ll be at SXSW this year, hoping to help some other companies get their roots planted. Upstack has partnered with building43 to offer a start-up prize package to a lively entrepreneur with an idea that rocks!
We call it The Awesome Start-up Giveaway. You know why? Because it’s a giveaway… er… because it’s awesome.
To enter:
Just record a video telling us what you want to build or what you’re building and submit it to the contest page at http://upstack.com/sxsw. Record it on your own OR if you don’t have a camera or anything like that (aren’t you adorable), you can come by our booth at SXSW where we’ll be ready to hook you up. Record your brief video at our booth and be our movie star for the day.
So, what exactly is in this Awesome Startup Giveaway?
To sum it up: Here’s the truckload of stuff the winner will get… with a little help from our friends.
Upstack:
Custom graphic design Logo, website, stationery design and 2-year domain registration.
Rackspace Cloud:
$500 credit for Cloud Servers.
Freshbooks:
1 year of Shuttle Bus invoicing service
Pear Analytics:
1 year Site Juice SEO Monitoring
PSD2Live:
PSD to XHTML conversion and Wordpress integration
MailFinch:
1 year snail mailing service.
It’s just about everything you could need to make your idea into a reality.
In case you’re wondering what the video ’should be’… not this. 
**For the record, Pablo and Katelyn rocked this video! Thanks guys!
So we’ve left a few “Here’s what were doing at SXSW” posts and as you can probably tell, we’re really excited! Just yesterday we had to talk Pablo down from the roof of our building because he said he couldn’t take the excitement anymore. He’s on level ground now and trying hard to not chomp off all of his fingernails. (For the record, I think he’s an attention hog, so don’t put that much weight into the situation.)
Well, as if we needed to do more, we’re getting ready to make a BIG announcement next week with the site that’s fanatical about the internet, building43. Yep, the same building43 that’s driven by Robert Scoble and the great folks at Rackspace.
Without giving away the whole shibang (no idea if that’s a real word or not, but still going with it), we’ve partnered with some incredible companies like Rackspace, FreshBooks, Pear Analytics, and others to help one entrepreneur jump start their venture.
Make sure you check back early next week for more details… and stay away from tall buildings if this excites you. Thanks.
If you’ve followed this blog for longer than a few days, you’ll notice we don’t get around to sharing other site’s cool stuff. We should, admittedly, but we’re so busy keeping up with all the cool stuff on Brandstack and Upstack that it’s hard to share other stuff. This is an exception.
Ryan Kelly of Pear Analytics (numbers guru and exceptionally tall guy), sent this to me tonight because I’m interested in everything “logo”. Normally, his stuff gets thrown to the side (kidding Ryan), but not this one. If you haven’t seen it already, here’s Logorama. It’s a 15 animated short featuring over 2,500 well known logos. Not suprisingly, it’s been nominated for Best Short Film in this year’s Oscars.
You’ll probably need to watch it a few times to catch them all, but how can you not. I’ve always envisioned Ronald McDonald being a mass criminal but have never seen it. Now you can…
Every week, we’ll summarize the week in Brandstack. Every week, you will read it. Glad we had this talk.
Here’s take two of the new and improved Week-End Wrap-Up. Now with pictures! Again, it’s amazing the quality of logos we get and we sell weekly. We’re so very proud. *tear*
— Cloud Cast by littleboxofideas – 40 springs
— DogCat by vasvarip – 37 springs
— jollidrop by NancyCarterDesign – 36 springs
— friendby by willfarant – 35 springs
— YellowRoom by voxsix – 32 springs
We’ve added someone new and important and awesome to the Brandstack team. But before we’ll allow them to contribute, they must answer the gauntlet of questions
To introduce the Brandstack world to Katelyn, we asked her a few straight forward questions. Here are her answers:
Q: In less than 8 words: Where are you from? What do you enjoy? What do you want?
A. Knoxville; art, food, cats, internetz, FUN PPL; fulltimejobatBrandstack!! (does that last one count as one word if I squish it all together?) [Nope. --Ed.]
Q: So honestly, how annoyed are you by the music in the office?
A. Haha I really like it! More plz.
Q: Have you ever seen anyone taller than Ryan Kelly (@pearanalytics) in person… seriously?
A. I thought so once, but then I realized I was at a zoo and it was a giraffe.
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Every month, Brandstack will recognize logos which exhibit particular badassedness. Is that a real word? At Brandstack, it is. Scroll down to see why…
We’re back with our second go at this feature after having a lot of fun going through and selecting logos last month. It seems you guys really enjoyed what we came up with, so why not keep the party going? Like Mardis Gras. We had some extra beads, so we went with 42 instead of 23 logos.
And to clarify, these are logos all posted in the month of February. That is why they are badass logos for February. We can’t show you logos for March because they don’t exist yet and we do not have a time machine. At least… not yet.
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Every week, we’ll summarize the week in Brandstack. Every week, you will read it. Glad we had this talk.
As you can probably already see, we’ve decided to make our Week-End Wrap-up feature a little prettier for you. Who doesn’t want to see these beautiful logos on a weekly basis? Nobody. That’s who. Wait… double negative… Yeah, nobody.
— Angryz by TabithaKristen – 56 springs
— Ultimate Victory by 1981 – 48 springs
— Databox by Martys – 44 springs
— Nordero by WildOne – 41 springs
— Chip-Chop by DNA – 36 springs
It’s almost that time of year. In the next few weeks, South By Southwest will be rolling into Austin, Texas as will we. We’ll be showing off Upstack, our new service for custom graphic design work and we’re sure to be the belles of the ball. First of all, we’re all going to be wearing the most exquisite evening gowns, with… Well, actually, we don’t want to ruin the surprise.
In all seriousness, we’re very excited about exhibiting our new creation at SXSW 2010 and getting to meet with a lot of you in person. We’ll be giving away $100 discounts on design work through Upstack and some other great stuff we’re sure you won’t want to miss out on.
In all funness, we’ll also have an Xbox set up, most likely with Rock Band so you can show off your skillz to us. Who knows, you might impress us and we’ll marry you. Be forewarned, though, we don’t know how to cook.
So, what we’re really getting at is, you are cordially invited to come hang out with us at booth 1123 between March 12th and the 16th. We’d love to see you there.
