For the last Creative Matters installment for 2010, we wanted to go out with some fun. This edition shows some of our latest online competitions, a cool new “custom design” handbag company, some new brand and cause related design, and one of our favorite web projects of the year. But don’t take our word for it – download now. Go grab your Santa mug, pour some egg nog, and take a peek.

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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).

New things and creative reminders:

Check out our newly launched Rule29 Store and R29 Shorts pages

Don’t forget you can still “BE IN CHARGE”

And as our 10th year comes to a close, take another stroll down memory lane with the Rule29 TEN x TEN anniversary site currently highlighting ten projects from every year between 2000-2010.

We hope you enjoy the new newsletter, this holiday season, and have an amazing close to 2010!

Thanks,

The design monkeys from Rule29

It’s pretty exciting to think less than a month from now we will be entering our 11th year. To think we have worked with over 330 clients and have done thousands of jobs, I’m really blown away and humbled at the opportunity to make creative matter. Recalling past employees, my current team, our many partners and collaborators and the amazing clients really is…well, awesome. This little 10 x 10 microsite has been fun as it has forced me to look back at the work we have done each month, reflect on how we have evolved and what we have learned. I would highly recommend doing that at least once a year.

And after a decade of making creative matter, it’s still about one thing: doing the best strategic design possible. We all come to work each day and strive to do just that (and of course have some fun doing it).

This 10th year installment shows a variety of work, from brand, print, online and cause-related work. We hope you enjoy. Check it out here.

But before you check out the site, what were some of your highlights of 2010? Personal, professional, whatever – in the spirit of the season take time to look back and feel free to share.

PS: We plan to keep posting some of our favorite work on this tumblr as a way for us as a team to choose our favorite 10 projects every year. So stay tuned.

Our 10^th anniversary year has been full of new R29 creative matter, and Creative Matters 25 is no exception. Please download our quarterly newsletter and get the latest work, news, and updates all in a brand new package. It’s still jam-packed with a cross section of work, but now it holds some design and reader updates that are better experienced than explained. So without further banter:

:: Click here to download Creative Matters 25 ::

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).

Don’t forget to BE IN CHARGE or to take a stroll down memory lane with TEN x TEN anniversary site currently highlighting 2000-2007.

Let us know what you think about our new work or just take a second to say hi. We hope that the last remnants of summer treat you well and we can talk soon,

Rule29

We are officially at the halfway point to Rule29′s Making Creative Matter anniversary edition. If you have been following previous posts, you know this post is going to be a mix of work, from small to large projects. A little bit of bold, a little bit of beautiful, at least that is how we like to think of them. This time, from the good year of 2005.

’05 seemed to be the year of branding systems and books for us. In prepping for 2006 there is a much larger variety to choose from, but 2005 was really dominated by that kind of work. It also was capped by R29 going from 3.5 to 6 full time team members.

From the NHL canceling the rest of the season, resulting in no hockey from 2004-2005, Hurricane Katrina, Apple releasing Mac OS X v10.4, the Funeral of Pope John Paul II, The Chronicles of Narnia in theaters, and of course the start of “TomKat”, 2005 had it’s share of ups and downs. What were you doing and working on in 2005?