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		<title>Syfy &#8211; Imagine Greater</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 12:21:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fred</dc:creator>
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Imagination Springs, now with more imagination
Together with Fallon &#38; Unit9 we set about to create a town where anything is possible!
By combining buildings/lamposts and bunnies (and much more) you will be able to create a kinds of wonders. How about a bouncy castle, a man eating plant or sunflower lamps, it&#8217;s all there!

Beware though, it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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<p class="hsTitle">Imagination Springs, now with more imagination</p>
<p>Together with <a title="Fallon" href="http://www.fallon.com/" target="_blank">Fallon</a> &amp; <a title="Unit9" href="http://www.unit9.com" target="_blank">Unit9</a> we set about to create a town where anything is possible!</p>
<p>By combining buildings/lamposts and bunnies (and much more) you will be able to create a kinds of wonders. How about a bouncy castle, a man eating plant or sunflower lamps, it&#8217;s all there!</p>
<p><span id="more-4216"></span></p>
<p>Beware though, it&#8217;s not a walk in the park and you have to approach things from a slightly different angle, things are not always what they seem to be.</p>
<p><a title="Imagination Springs" href="http://www.syfy.com/imaginegreater/imaginationsprings/" target="_blank">Start creating!</a></p>
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<p>Production Company: <a href="http://www.unit9.com/" target="_blank">Unit9<br />
 </a> Agency: <a href="http://www.fallon.com" target="_blank">Fallon</a></p>
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		<title>Twitch is heading to the riviera</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:13:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elena</dc:creator>
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Twitch is heading to the riviera
MSI Simple Machines has been shortlisted at the  Cannes International Advertising Festival for a Cyber Lion in the category Travel, Entertainment  &#38; Leisure . Winners to be announced on thurdsay, drum  roll please!
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<p class="hsTitle">Twitch is heading to the riviera</p>
<p>MSI Simple Machines has been shortlisted at the  Cannes International Advertising Festival for a <a href="http://www.canneslions.com/work/cyber/?award=99" target="_blank">Cyber Lion</a> in the category <em>Travel, Entertainment  &amp; Leisure</em><strong> </strong>. Winners to be announced on thurdsay, drum  roll please!</p>
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		<title>MSI-Science Storms</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 10:53:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>anders</dc:creator>
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Thunder! Lightning! Very, very frightening&#8230;
Our close relationship with MSI Chicago gives birth to many beautiful love child&#8217;s. Our latest sibling is the “Science Storms” exhibition page. It&#8217;s a collection of all the amazing and beautiful destruction our earth have to offer us.
 
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<p class="hsTitle" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" lang="en-US">Thunder! Lightning! Very, very frightening&#8230;</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" lang="en-US">Our close relationship with MSI Chicago gives birth to many beautiful love child&#8217;s. Our latest sibling is the “Science Storms” exhibition page. It&#8217;s a collection of all the amazing and beautiful destruction our earth have to offer us.<br />
 <span id="more-4071"></span><br />
 We must encourage everyone that lives in the Chicago area, or is planing to travel to Chicago in the near future to visit this incredible exhibition. It&#8217;s not everyday that you have the opportunity to see a  real tornado in a museum foyer.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" lang="en-US"><a href="http://www.msichicago.org/whats-here/exhibits/science-storms/" target="_blank">Experience the storms here!</a></p>
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		<title>Simple Machines up for a Webby</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fred</dc:creator>
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Simple Machines up for a Webby
Our dear little Twitch is up for a Webby, which is absolutley awesome. 
 He&#8217;s got some fierce competition in the educational category so be sure to VOTE.
Don&#8217;t be a sourpuss and go here and register &#38; vote
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<p class="hsTitle">Simple Machines up for a Webby</p>
<p>Our dear little Twitch is up for a Webby, which is absolutley awesome. <br />
 He&#8217;s got some fierce competition in the educational category so be sure to VOTE.</p>
<p><a href="http://webby.aol.com/entries/48104" target="_blank">Don&#8217;t be a sourpuss and go here and register &amp; vote</a></p>
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		<title>Newsletter</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 14:29:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik</dc:creator>
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		<title>Random Characters</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:26:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fred</dc:creator>
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Random characters makes for a random day
If we would ever create some stylistic people for a phone commercial, they might look like this. Chances are pretty big that they won&#8217;t though, but one can dream eh?
They also come in blue.
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<p class="hsTitle">Random characters makes for a random day</p>
<p>If we would ever create some stylistic people for a phone commercial, they might look like this. Chances are pretty big that they won&#8217;t though, but one can dream eh?</p>
<p>They also come in blue.</p>
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		<title>Erik has arrived</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:29:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fred</dc:creator>
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And on the second day, he ascended
We got reinforcements, and not any kind but the awesome kind! Erik has joined us from Hyper Island and will stay with us for 3 months. He has 2 cats and is really smart, this we respect.
And we did not in any way photoshop this image, he just emits [...]]]></description>
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<p class="hsTitle">And on the second day, he ascended</p>
<p>We got reinforcements, and not any kind but the awesome kind! Erik has joined us from Hyper Island and will stay with us for 3 months. He has 2 cats and is really smart, this we respect.</p>
<p>And we did not in any way photoshop this image, he just emits a glowing aura.</p>
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		<title>Unit9 Rebrand</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:07:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fred</dc:creator>
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Viva-La-Logo
If you&#8217;ve been following our work closely you&#8217;ve noticed that we do quite alot of work with some happy chaps in London called unit9. One day our bestest friend Tom called us and asked us if we could redesign their logo. It needed to be classic, clean, modern, you know all that stuff that logos [...]]]></description>
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<p class="hsTitle">Viva-La-Logo</p>
<p>If you&#8217;ve been following our work closely you&#8217;ve noticed that we do quite alot of work with some happy chaps in London called <a href="http://www.unit9.com" target="_blank">unit9</a>. One day our bestest friend Tom called us and asked us if we could redesign their logo. It needed to be classic, clean, modern, you know all that stuff that logos always need to be!<br />
 <span id="more-3621"></span></p>
<p class="hsSubTitle">Process</p>
<p>While we realize that the cloud had always been a strong part of unit9&#8217;s identity we felt they where ready to move away from it as part of their logo &amp; use it more as an ornamental piece. So from here on now the new cloud and the new logo will not live side by side, but instead compliment each other.</p>
<p>You know like Ying &amp; Yang, but different.<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3726" title="u9-rebrand_1" src="http://www.helpfulstrangers.com/media/wp//u9-rebrand_1.jpg" alt="u9-rebrand_1" width="550" height="436" /></p>
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		<title>MSI Logo Reveal</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:24:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elena</dc:creator>
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Out with the old, in with the new
Our friends over at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago are very busy bees. Right now they are revealing their new stunning brand identity and they asked us to craft an animation to transition from their old logo to the new one.
Watch the magic happen.



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<p><span class="hsTitle">Out with the old, in with the new</span></p>
<p>Our friends over at the <a href="http://www.msichicago.org/" target="_blank">Museum of Science and Industry</a> in Chicago are very busy bees. Right now they are revealing their new stunning brand identity and they asked us to craft an animation to transition from their old logo to the new one.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.msichicago.org" target="_blank">Watch the magic happen.</a></p>
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<p>Production Company: <a href="http://www.unit9.com/" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://www.helpfulstrangers.com">Helpful Strangers</a><br />
 3D Animation: <a href="http://www.digipunk.se/" target="_blank">Digipunk</a></p>
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		<title>Pop Secret Popcorn</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:37:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fred</dc:creator>
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Popcorn Landscaping.
Pop Secret Popcorns new website is all about the user, it&#8217;s a tool for you to create your own perfect movie night. By filling out things like who/when it will generate a suitable selection of movies for you to watch.
It removes all the bickering over movie nights, great!
Make it Pop
 
Paint it Blue,Yellow,Pink, but [...]]]></description>
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<p class="hsTitle">Popcorn Landscaping.</p>
<p>Pop Secret Popcorns new website is all about the user, it&#8217;s a tool for you to create your own perfect movie night. By filling out things like who/when it will generate a suitable selection of movies for you to watch.</p>
<p>It removes all the bickering over movie nights, great!<a title="Pop Secret Popcorn" href="http://www.popsecret.com" target="_blank"></a></p>
<p><a title="Pop Secret Popcorn" href="http://www.popsecret.com" target="_blank">Make it Pop</a><br />
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<p class="hsSubTitle">Paint it Blue,Yellow,Pink, but not Black</p>
<p>To further enhance  the experience they wanted to create an environment where Popsecret characters could live. It&#8217;s been over two years since we got down and dirty on creating a 3D -esque environment, so when we got the question if we could create 3 different environments that where quick to load and looked warm we obviously said &#8220;Yes, it&#8217;s going to be awesome&#8221;.</p>
<p>The idea is that all these settings had to be at dusk, after all, that is the best time to watch movies. So we had to create 3 distinctive looks; sky,city,backdrop, you name it.</p>
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<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3501" title="Popsecrets1" src="http://www.helpfulstrangers.com/media/wp//Popsecrets1.jpg" alt="Popsecrets1" width="550" height="253" /><br />
 <img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3506" title="Popsecrets2" src="http://www.helpfulstrangers.com/media/wp//Popsecrets2.jpg" alt="Popsecrets2" width="550" height="253" /></p>
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<p>Production Company: <a href="http://www.unit9.com" target="_blank">Unit9<br />
 </a> Agency: <a href="http://www.goodbysilverstein.com" target="_blank">Goodby, Silverstein &amp; Partners</a></p>
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