Ahem…excuse me. What I meant to say was, “this office has an abundance of character channeled mostly from lighthearted humor and Star Wars references”. Welcome to Carrot Creative; where Idea Paint covers the walls and customized Yankee’s jerseys hang framed with two inch matte. Located in an old industrial space that grumbles each time the C train crosses the bridge, Carrot caught my eye over a year ago when a pixelated image of Phil Collins popped up in their Easterly… Continue Reading
September 24, 2009
September 17, 2009
“The Most Exciting Advance in Mobile Applications We’ve Seen This Century”
Chris Petescia contributed to this report After decades of research, countless Erlenmeyer flasks, and several weeks of hapless finger-painting, we’re finally able to announce the launch of The Onion Microfiche. The first-ever iPhone app that delivers a world of Onion headlines directly to your Oxford shirt pocket. Onion aficionados know the true essence of any story lies in its headline. In fact, many headlines are so brilliant they stand alone without any article associated with them. We worked closely with… Continue Reading
September 9, 2009
Zip, Zip and Away!
Thank you Zipcar for sending us this awesome package of swag! Here at Carrot Creative, we have always been big fans of the Zipcar brand, in fact we love it so much we built a customized twitter feed for them. With an office in Brooklyn, and clients all over the place we have had many instances where a Zipcar rental came to the rescue. Our favorite use was for a recent visit to our most colorful client, Crayola. For this trip,… Continue Reading
August 17, 2009
We Totally Beat Level One
Mike and I are proud to announce that two of the panels crafted in-house at Carrot have been selected for further voting by you, the lovely interactive community. With your help we can collect all the gold rings, green mushrooms, fire spitting flowers, and flying feather things to defeat Bowser and deliver two riveting presentations in Austin. Mike will be speaking on how the reigning sports leagues like the MLB, NFL, and NBA can help their athletes leverage social media… Continue Reading
August 13, 2009
Introducing FanFeedr: Personalized Sports Search
For those in DUMBO that don’t know yet, FanFeedr has moved into the area. Ty Ahmad-Taylor and his team setup shop in the Green Building off Water St. a few weeks ago. As the sports guy here at Carrot, I was extremely excited to hear about such a cool fan-oriented product planting roots in DUMBO. FanFeedr is all about providing real-time personalized sports news to fans in the most desirable way, and their integration of Facebook Connect is a clear… Continue Reading
August 5, 2009
We Really Do Hope They Serve Beer In Hell
Ladies and Gentlemen, we’re officially Hollywood big shots. Well, almost. After much anticipation, Carrot Creative has completed our first film site, and what better way to lose our film site virginity than with the cinematic adaptation of Tucker Max’s New York Times bestseller, I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell? It all started when Tucker’s right hand man, Ian Claudius, first read about Carrot in Smashing Magazine’s fantastic post, Looking Back On 2008 With Top Web Designers. A quick phone… Continue Reading
July 24, 2009
“What Are You Doing?” (That’s Worth Bragging About)
In a recent article from Silicon Alley Insider Mark Zuckerberg was euphemistically quoted saying Facebook allows people “to stay updated on what’s happening around them and share with the people in their lives.” Translation? People like to brag about the awesome crap they do via status updates and Tweets. As a prolific status-updater I am in no way claiming innocence on this (my last status update was VIP at DMB with Carrot Creative, jealous yet?) But seriously, the reason I… Continue Reading
July 23, 2009
A new addition from Down Under
Some exciting news on the next Kick Ass addition to the Carrot Creative team. Jacob Cass will be joining Carrot Creative in the beginning of 2010. As he describes on his website, he’s a self-employed graphic designer, specializing in the fields of corporate identity (logo) design, web design, print design and branding with the majority of his time spent designing and implementing marketing promotions for small businesses such as logos, websites, brochures, letterhead, business cards and more. But really, who… Continue Reading
July 21, 2009
Carrot Creative Co-Sponsoring Blood Drive August 21st
In the spirit of giving, Carrot Creative will be co-sponsoring an upcoming blood drive alongside Jauntsetter, Brooklyn Based and Haydenn-Harnett Friday August 21st 2009 from 4:00PM – 9:30PM. The Blood Drive Busmobile will be at Bedford Avenue and N. 12th Street. Full details can be found here including a form to register for a specific time to come down to the park and donate. Members of the Carrot Crew will be there along with reps from the other companies sponsoring…. Continue Reading
July 20, 2009
Carrot Creative Selected as Best Practice Finalist
With more than 500,000 small businesses in the tri-state area, The New York Enterprise Report is once again honoring those who are among the most innovative. Carrot Creative has been nominated as a finalist in the Human Resources & Leadership category. Companies were chosen based on their ability to demonstrate the use of a best practice to generate competitive advantages, revenue profits and/or long-term value. Twenty-seven companies, based in the NY metro area, were selected as finalists out of dozens… Continue Reading
