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    <title type="text">Zookeeper News + Blog</title>
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    <updated>2010-03-08T16:09:38Z</updated>
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    <entry>
      <title>New OK Go Video</title>
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      <id>tag:zookeeper.com,2010:site/blog/4.123</id>
      <published>2010-03-08T16:04:37Z</published>
      <updated>2010-03-08T16:09:38Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>Dave Waite</name>
            <email>dave@zookeeper.com</email>
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        <p>Check out this amazing new video from OK Go, &#8220;This Too Shall Pass.&#8221; Using a Rube Goldberg machine, they filmed this all in one shot. Wow.
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    <entry>
      <title>Copywriter buddy Mark Radcliffe featured in short film Lemonade</title>
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      <id>tag:zookeeper.com,2010:site/blog/4.122</id>
      <published>2010-02-18T08:18:00Z</published>
      <updated>2010-02-18T08:26:01Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>Dave Waite</name>
            <email>dave@zookeeper.com</email>
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        <p>Good buddy Mark Radcliffe is one of the characters in Lemonade, a short film about a group of advertising professionals who are laid-off in 2008 by a large NYC ad agency and how that changes their outlooks on life. Worth watching: </p>



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    <entry>
      <title>Eat Naked One Step Closer to Being Published&#8230;</title>
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      <id>tag:zookeeper.com,2010:site/blog/4.121</id>
      <published>2010-02-18T00:42:26Z</published>
      <updated>2010-02-18T01:02:27Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>Dave Waite</name>
            <email>dave@zookeeper.com</email>
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        <p>Just heard exciting news from Margaret Floyd, an exceptional nutritionist here in LA. She&#8217;s getting very close to being under contract for her forthcoming book, Eat Naked, which will explore how eating fresh food that’s whole, organic, unrefined, and often comes unpackaged is a healthier nutritional choice. The book would launch in Spring 2011 and appear in bookstores everywhere. </p>

<p><br />
Zookeeper developed the <a href="http://www.zookeeper.com/beyourowncreature/news/article/zookeeper_creates_new_logo_for_eat_naked/  " title="logo, tagline">logo, tagline</a> and website late last year.</p>

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Very, very excited for Margaret. 
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    <entry>
      <title>Zookeeper Designs Entertainment Company Logo</title>
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      <id>tag:zookeeper.com,2010:site/news/2.120</id>
      <published>2010-02-02T00:02:47Z</published>
      <updated>2010-02-02T00:03:48Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>Dave Waite</name>
            <email>dave@zookeeper.com</email>
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        <p>Hollywood director, writer and producer Jon Polansky enlisted Zookeeper to brand his entertainment company, No H Productions. As a movie director in Los Angeles with a notable last name, Jon sought to place the emphasis on his first name and make his company&#8217;s moniker memorable. </p>

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We created the movie-production company&#8217;s logo with a big and bold NO H, and a film spool to be instantly evocative of the industry his business is in. We then splashed it with a vibrant green color to symbolize growth and fun, reflecting the spirit of a production company on the rise. 
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    <entry>
      <title>Zookeeper Creates Apparel Monster for Majicco</title>
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      <id>tag:zookeeper.com,2010:site/news/2.118</id>
      <published>2010-01-21T18:49:20Z</published>
      <updated>2010-01-21T18:50:21Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>Dave Waite</name>
            <email>dave@zookeeper.com</email>
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        <p>After creating the new name for this Los Angeles-based kids clothing company, we imagined the Apparel Monster. An illustrated creature threaded together with a zipper neck and button head to be imaginative, fun and playful. More whimsical than scary, the Majicco logo serves as the flag for the stylish, European-influenced brand that’s taking a hip and cutting-edge approach with its fashion designs for kids. We customized a classic font, tweaking it to be youthful and infusing it with an attitude of play, with the two o’s combined to symbolize childhood stretching to infinity. The uncommon gold and silver coloring is intended to make an immediate, bold impression.&nbsp; 
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      <title>Zookeeper Writes the Copy for Bebe&#8217;s PH8 Fashion Brand Launch</title>
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      <id>tag:zookeeper.com,2009:site/news/2.116</id>
      <published>2009-12-08T21:59:49Z</published>
      <updated>2009-12-08T23:41:50Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>Dave Waite</name>
            <email>dave@zookeeper.com</email>
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        <p>When fashion brand Bebe launched their new venture, PH8, they enlisted our help to create the new copy for their apparel brand that would replace Bebe Sport in retail locations across North America. </p>

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Reflecting an uplifting, optimistic feel, the copy told the story of PH8, framing the new brand as a fusion of function and fashion for women embracing an active lifestyle. </p>

<p><br />
We wrote the new copy that appeared in their brand guide book, promotional emails, direct mail, call scripts and website. 
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    <entry>
      <title>Several New Clients Enlist Zookeeper&#8217;s Creative Services</title>
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      <id>tag:zookeeper.com,2009:site/news/2.114</id>
      <published>2009-12-08T03:23:39Z</published>
      <updated>2009-12-08T03:47:40Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>Dave Waite</name>
            <email>dave@zookeeper.com</email>
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        <p>We&#8217;ve been fortunate to work with several <a href="http://www.zookeeper.com/beyourowncreature/clients/">new clients</a> lately. Check out the <a href="http://www.zookeeper.com/beyourowncreature/clients/">roster of companies</a> that have enlisted our creative services. 
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    <entry>
      <title>New Taglines Added to the Zookeeper Portfolio</title>
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      <id>tag:zookeeper.com,2009:site/news/2.113</id>
      <published>2009-12-08T01:53:29Z</published>
      <updated>2009-12-08T02:33:30Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>Dave Waite</name>
            <email>dave@zookeeper.com</email>
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        <div class="floatright"><img src="http://www.zookeeper.com/images/uploads/taglines-125.gif" style="border: 0;" alt="Taglines" width="125" height="125" /></div><p>A short and sweet tagline is a terrific way to differentiate your business from the competition. Coupled with a strong conceptual logo, a tagline brings extra oomph to your brand.&nbsp; </p>

<p><br />
We&#8217;ve recently added a slew of new <a href="http://www.zookeeper.com/beyourowncreature/portfolio/work/content_taglines_copywriting/">taglines to our portfolio</a>. 
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    <entry>
      <title>Zookeeper Designs the New ScriptPhD Logo</title>
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      <id>tag:zookeeper.com,2009:site/news/2.112</id>
      <published>2009-11-30T16:00:41Z</published>
      <updated>2009-11-30T16:02:43Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>Dave Waite</name>
            <email>dave@zookeeper.com</email>
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        <p>Client: <b>ScriptPhD</b><br />
Industry: <b>Entertainment + Media</b></p>

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ScriptPhD approached us to help brand a novel-niche consulting business focused on developing creative content that integrates smart science and technology in the entertainment and media industries. The new logo and website introduce a groundbreaking blog that marries science and entertainment in a transformative way. Consisting of writers and guest contributors from a spectrum of artistic and technical backgrounds, ScriptPhD.com provides in-depth coverage of sci-fi movies and television, lectures, panels and conventions, original articles and personal interviews.</p>

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Zookeeper produced a logo centered on the idea of an element in the periodic table, with the  &#8216;S&#8217; and &#8216;PhD&#8217; representing the chemical symbol for ScriptPhD and the phone number acting as the Atomic Mass number. The design and color selection of the science-based brand identity symbolizes evolution, growth and reach. </p>

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ScriptPhD’s blog has emerged as a huge success, with a rabid and growing following. 
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    <entry>
      <title>Dock Ellis and the LSD No&#45;No by James Blagden</title>
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      <id>tag:zookeeper.com,2009:site/blog/4.110</id>
      <published>2009-11-20T22:23:51Z</published>
      <updated>2009-11-20T22:32:52Z</updated>
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            <name>Dave Waite</name>
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        <p>As we all know now, many of our baseball heroes put incredible doses of steroids in their bodies over the years to boost their slugging abilities. </p>

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But imagine being on an acid trip and pitching? And not just pitching, but throwing a no hitter, the rarest of diamond gems. Dock Ellis did it back in the day and here&#8217;s his almost unbelievable story in this brilliantly illustrated video by No Mas and artist James Blagden:</p>



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    <entry>
      <title>Zookeeper Creates New Brand Identity for Changemakers Toolbox</title>
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      <id>tag:zookeeper.com,2009:site/news/2.109</id>
      <published>2009-11-19T04:07:14Z</published>
      <updated>2009-11-19T04:09:15Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>Dave Waite</name>
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        <p>A new consulting business focused helping people or important causes reach a higher level of success, Changemakers Toolbox provides the coaching, training, programs and tools for “changemakers” who want to create the mindset of a leader and make a bigger difference in the world. The Canadian company helps its clients  get closer to finding and living out their purpose so they can create more fulfillment in their lives.</p>

<p><br />
We created this brand identity to be bright and optimistic, with type that has a fun, unique and inviting feel. The illustrated toolbox comes alive with a bold red and energetic yellow glow, as symbolic images fly upward.&nbsp; Strong, powerful and full of life, the new logo aims to reach out and invite a wide audience in North America and beyond. </p>


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    <entry>
      <title>Zookeeper Creates New Logo for Eat Naked</title>
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      <id>tag:zookeeper.com,2009:site/news/2.107</id>
      <published>2009-11-16T18:01:08Z</published>
      <updated>2009-11-16T18:03:09Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>Dave Waite</name>
            <email>dave@zookeeper.com</email>
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        <p>With an intentionally controversial name, Eat Naked is poised to get attention with a book soon slated for publication and an expansive brand launch. </p>

<p><br />
Eating naked is a way of eating that’s delicious, fun, accessible and, best of all, makes you look and feel great naked. Eating naked is eating without the extras. Eating naked is eating fresh food that’s whole, organic, unrefined, and often comes unpackaged. </p>

<p><br />
Light, lively and playful, the Eat Naked logo was created to grab attention with a bigger type and an energetic red for ‘Naked,’ designed with the disappearing ‘a’ to hint at the core of the brand’s message. We also consulted on the catchy name and wrote the tagline for the nutrition brand. 
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      <title>The Crystal Method&#8217;s Releases &#8220;Come Back Clean&#8221; Video</title>
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      <id>tag:zookeeper.com,2009:site/blog/4.105</id>
      <published>2009-10-16T18:31:36Z</published>
      <updated>2009-10-17T01:35:37Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>Dave Waite</name>
            <email>dave@zookeeper.com</email>
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        <p>Check out our hockey buddy Kenny Jordan&#8217;s new video that just released today, Come Back Clean (Kaskade Radio Edit Version). Kenny teams with Scott Kirkland to form The Crystal Method, one of the best selling electronica  bands in the world. </p>

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Last year, we designed this <a href="http://www.zookeeper.com/greenwave/" title="The Crystal Method poster by Zookeeper" target="blank">poster</a> for a fundraiser hosted by The Crystal Method. We also created this &#8220;I lost me to The Crystal Method&#8221; T-shirt:</p>

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    <entry>
      <title>Smokey the Bear has his paws full</title>
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      <id>tag:zookeeper.com,2009:site/blog/4.104</id>
      <published>2009-08-31T02:44:40Z</published>
      <updated>2009-08-31T03:15:41Z</updated>
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            <name>Dave Waite</name>
            <email>dave@zookeeper.com</email>
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        <p>Just back from Mulholland Drive, a bit east of Laurel Canyon, checking out the massive forest fires. Overlooking Universal City, the vantage up there of the Station fires is incredible. You could actually see the flames tonight, ripping up the slopes, getting very close to the communications towers on Mt. Wilson which could vaguely be seen in the distance. When I stopped yesterday afternoon, you could just see smoke from there, approximately 18 miles from the closest fires, as the crow flies.</p>

<p><br />
The billowing clouds look like massive mushroom clouds – these pictures don&#8217;t do justice the size and scope of the clouds. They are enormous. </p>

<p><br />
My grandfather was a firefighter in my hometown of Troy, NY, and my grandmother and great aunt used to take me to many fires when I was just a kid. We&#8217;d sit there for hours and watch the firefighters do everything they could to douse the flames. Very sad two firemen lost their lives today battling the forest fires. And these fires are a long way from being over&#8230; </p>

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Click on the photos above to enlarge the pictures of the spectacular – and ominous – skies. </p>



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    <entry>
      <title>The Footnotes of Mad Men</title>
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      <id>tag:zookeeper.com,2009:site/blog/4.103</id>
      <published>2009-08-20T16:24:15Z</published>
      <updated>2009-08-20T16:45:16Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>Dave Waite</name>
            <email>dave@zookeeper.com</email>
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        <p>Everyone in the ad world has been talking this week about the return of <i>Mad Men</i>, the hit series on AMC about the advertising world in the 1960s. It&#8217;s one of the best shows on TV these days. </p>

<p><br />
Our good friend and client Jovana Grbic of <a href="http://www.scriptphd.com" title="ScriptPhD" target="blank">ScriptPhD</a> just sent us this link to <a href="http://www.madmenfootnotes.com" title="www.madmenfootnotes.com" target="blank">The Footnotes of <i>Mad Men</i>.</a> It&#8217;s a fascinating companion piece to the show. Check it out. 
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