Neat concept – seen here - via Rahul Mahtani & Yofred Moik from the Industrial Design program at Syracuse University.

The criticism that I’ve seen says you can only send this to someone who lives to the East of you. There are a few work-arounds: 1. The world is round. If someone lives 1 mile to the west you can show that 15,000+ miles connecting you to the east, oceans included. 2. Print it upside down! You can use classic reflect/rotation. I think the biggest deterrent is the cost to print, but still a lovely idea.

“I love a good bubble bath. Effervescent.

I love you. I love you.”

For Valentine’s Day we present you with this video of love and longing. We used stock photos from the 80s, created a stop animation with our plethora of toys, and tied it together with a wound-up custom audio experiment.

We hope you love it as much as we love you.

On Sunday morning we launched the new website for Spoleto Festival USA, one of the most respected arts festivals in the country.  We developed a new look, rethought the browsing methodology, and we brought features to the site like the “Why I support Spoleto” donor feature and incorporated google maps for an enhanced user experience.

Below you’ll see the Sort by Genre page. This provides a grid view of all of the events organized by genre.

Below is the Sort by Date page. This provides a list view of all of the events organized by date, but maintains the color indicators to differentiate the genre.

We are very pleased with the results and expect an exciting 2010 Season.  In particular we look forward to seeing Cinderella, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, Mozart / Brahms / Verdi and the Opera, Flora.

The new season was recently written up in the New York Times.

Browse and get your tickets today!

Michael James Moran (woodworker, furniture-maker, client, friend and actor) lives in a wood-filled world.

We concepted, videographized and composed audio for this splinter-free project.

This is really beautifully done.

Off topic, but barely relevant, I admit I once tried to register http://100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000.com thinking I could tell people to “go to my website” – “oh what’s your website?” they’d ask. “google.com” I’d say.

Too many characters is the problem — max is 63 characters. So then I tried http://10^100.com — nope ‘^’ is an invalid character. Then I gave up. Years have passed.

I just checked http://10tothe100th.com is available. I have no interest in it, nor do I expect you to. OK! See you later!

We have a responsibility to give back to our community and one way we do it is by supporting movements and organizations that we strongly believe in.  The Coastal Conservation league is a 4-star Charity Navigator organization, which means that they operate very effectively and efficiently. We worked with them to develop their new website – full write up coming soon! – and found them to be a team of incredible people all working very hard to serve a greater cause that benefits all of us. In short, they rule and deserve all the support in the world.

…then you should read this article about Facebook’s new homepage features.
5 Tips for Marketing on Facebook’s New Pages.

We at Fuzzco are growing more and more interested in following the lead of some well respected web design firms in helping to set an example that Internet Explorer 6 is garbage and doesn’t deserve our energies. It’s not that we can’t find the appropriate workarounds, it’s that we think on a deeper level, it should be globally rejected. At the time of this 5% of our total website visitors are visiting using IE6, but that isn’t incredibly accurate. W3Schools.com reports the following global statistics:

For all of you out there who are using the Internet Explorer 6 browser. PLEASE consider upgrading. A few great reasons:

• It is 7 years old.
• It has security holes.
• It has an archaic css model and requires workarounds for flash.
• It doesn’t support transparent png files.
• It makes web developers like their jobs a little less than they would if it were banished.

Upgrade to Firefox or in the very least upgrade to Internet Explorer 7. Tell your friends, your parents, grandparents, co-workers, office mates, neighbors, strangers — you probably won’t have to tell your children.

To read more about these efforts:

http://www.stopie6.org/

http://www.end6.org/

http://browsehappy.com/

We can do this!

Logo for Air France. Looking good.

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