With Spring here in full swing, we’re happy to share a fresh edition of Creative Matters with you. So, grab your favorite springtime refreshment or outdoor café table and dig into our latest issue packed with all sorts of newly-picked goodness, like our latest promo calendar, hi-tech comparison websites, inspirational card decks, movies, apparel, and much more.

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As with previous Creative Matters, please download the interactive PDF to click your way through via each hotlink, or simply scroll through it page by page (best viewed with the latest version of Acrobat Reader).

We hope you enjoy our new projects. If you would like to know more about any of the featured pieces in this edition, please give us a shout, and we’ll be glad to explore how we can make creative matter for you.

IT’S TIME TO BE IN CHARGE
Time management is always a challenge, but why not make it fun? Check out our latest collaborative promotional calendar & site all geared around being in charge of YOU. These one-of-a-kind calendars are shipping soon, so let us know if you’d like to have one! And check out the companion site, beinchargeofyou.com!

TEN X TEN – RULE29’s 10TH ANNIVERSARY
Have you seen our latest installment of Rule29′s decade of design? As part of celebrating our 10th anniversary and remembering all of our friends that we’ve worked with over the years, we created the Rule29 10×10 project blog. Each month during 2010 we’re posting a set of work from the past. Currently on the site you’ll find projects from 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2003, and 2004 will be going up soon. To see more, check out Rule29 10 x 10.

Enjoy!

Each year, we pair with some of our partners to create a new promotional piece that we can send out to design friends, clients, and anyone else who has somehow found their way onto our mailing list. We always set out to make this piece a great example of each partner’s capabilities (plain speak – the promos are always pretty rad). For those that don’t remember, last year was our Life In Abundance book, the year before that was our 29 Reasons to Vote and our 3Feasts wine journal.

This year, we wanted to create a piece that was not only easy on the eyes, but also functional in an every day sort of way. After many hours of brainstorming, several Starbucks runs, and the occasional rock-paper-scissors match, we landed on the idea of a perpetual desk calendar. It’s a calendar because, let’s face it, everyone can stand to be a little more organized. It’s perpetual because we don’t want the content within the calendar to go unread once we reach 2011. Read the rest of the entry >