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Making 180 'Old Spice Guy' Videos, Exploring Video Game Typography

by Thomas Houston on July 15, 2010 at 06:25 PM

Old Spice Guy
There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web.
  • ReadWriteWeb investigates how the nearly universally acclaimed Old Spice Guy videos were made, and it turns out the whole production was a team effort from marketing agency Wieden + Kennedy. While monitoring the Web, the crew wrote, shot, edit and published 180 videos in just a few short days. [From: ReadWriteWeb]
  • Geekosystem interviews video game font designer Ray Larabie about the history of typography in games, from 'Pac-Man' to 'Red Dead Redemption.' [From: Geekosystem]
  • Newsweek lists the top 10 most-rented films on Netflix. Though the list has its Oscar winners and nominees, not a single movie was made before 2004. [From: Newsweek]
  • And... your moment of Internet zen. [From: Alex Balk]
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Tags: Academy Awards, AcademyAwards, ads, advertising, bestoftherest, netflix, oldspiceguy, oscar winners, OscarWinners, top, typography, wieden kennedy, WiedenKennedy

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