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	<description>North Advertising &#124; Brand advertising and content &#124; design + film + interactive + music &#124; Based in Portland</description>
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		<title>And education comes in last..</title>
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I was reading an article this morning about housing&#8217;s share of the average household budget, which included the graph above. What struck me wasn&#8217;t the yawning gap between food and housing costs in 1945 [although it's safe to say that was something to do with the war;] what stood out is that today, we spend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Outdoor advertising ban in Sao Paulo benefits social media and digital</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The mayor termed advertising &#8216;visual pollution&#8217;
&#8220;Four years ago, the streets of São Paulo, South America’s biggest city, were strewn with advertising. Messages on the surfaces of buildings, buses, shops, taxis and even private homes competed with billboards to create a chaotic and dizzying corporate assault on the senses.
So, Gilberto Kassab, the centre-right mayor of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Friday awesomeness file week 12</title>
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A week&#8217;s worth of inspiration. Click on the images. Enjoy.
Previously inspiring awesomeness files [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]
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		<link>http://www.north.com/html/index.php/latest/the-friday-awesomeness-file-week-12/</link>
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		<title>The Ponytail Chronicles: Volume 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A bit of hard-earned wisdom:  there is no downtime when going ponytail.                         

You’ve got to eat, drink, sleep follicle extension. It barely leaves time for the day job. Namely, internet [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.north.com/html/index.php/latest/the-ponytail-chronicles-volume-2/</link>
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		<title>NORTH from a teenager&#8217;s point of view</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Remy Murfitt, NORTH’s summer intern
Remy
My experience working at NORTH this summer was unlike anything I have ever done, especially considering the fact that it was my first job. I&#8217;d say that coming into this job I really had no clue what to expect. I knew that my job would consist of doing anything that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tenfour First Thursday Art Opening Sept 2nd 6PM</title>
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Our friends in the Pearl, Tenfour are throwing a party. Great art, Stickybits and Koi Fusion &#8211; what&#8217;s not to like? Read on..
&#8220;The evening will include an interactive art show, a live DJ, refreshments and delicious eats from Koi Fusion.
The interactive experience will be powered by Stickybits™ mobile apps. Stickybits allows custom barcode scanning to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Redesigning the US bank note</title>
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Not every tactile item that we use everyday requires a redesign, but the US bank note may be one of them. What&#8217;s nice about this particular redesign project is that Dowling Duncan&#8217;s designers took note of how we handle bank notes &#8211; &#8220;we realized people tend to handle and deal with money vertically rather than [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.north.com/html/index.php/latest/redesigning-the-us-bank-note/</link>
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		<title>KEEN chooses NORTH as new agency partner</title>
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We are thrilled to announce our new partnership with KEEN, the company that has revolutionized footwear for active lifestyles. This new collaboration conforms absolutely to NORTH&#8217;s vision to serve clients with a triple-bottom-line sensibility, great design culture, high-performance products and a die-hard fan base.
Press release [PDF]
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		<link>http://www.north.com/html/index.php/latest/keen-chooses-north-as-new-agency-partner/</link>
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		<title>The problem with location technology is us</title>
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We live in a bubble. And by we, I mean those of us who either work in disciplines that require us to keep up with technological knowledge on behalf of our clients, or who are early adopters: and young.
I was reading a NY Times article this morning on how Google, Foursquare, Gowalla, Shopkick and most [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.north.com/html/index.php/latest/the-problem-with-location-technology-is-us/</link>
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		<title>The art of punk posters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Buzzcocks promotional poster for Beating Hearts, 1979 

Artist and sometime punk singer Linder Stirling’s most famous artwork adorns the cover of the Buzzcocks’ 1977 single &#8216;Orgasm Addict&#8217;: a collage of a naked woman with eyes for nipples and an iron for a face. This lesser-known image breaks with punk tradition for a starker, more figurative [...]]]></description>
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