Keep your fingers crossed for this fall's graduating class of the Creative Circus, an Atlanta-based school for students interested in a career in advertising. Students David Ma and Deanna Director started a side project last year to bring "Mad Men" actor Jon Hamm to speak at their graduation this fall.

Ari Elkouby, Associate Creative Director at Proximity Canada, was tapped as a judge for Applied Arts' 2010 Interactive Awards issue. Simply put, Elkouby was one of ten judges who decided which interactive work made the cut inside Canada's visual communications awards issue. More than 40,000 creatives throughout Canada read Applied Arts. When the time came for a bio and picture of each judge for the March/April issue, Elkouby took a nontraditional route that hopefully inspires future creatives looking to make the book.

Leave it to subscription music service eMusic to project concerts of up-and-coming artists on buildings in New York, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami and Austin.

You begin by recruiting James Lipton to interview a motley crew of people and animals, both living and dead, for casual conversation and an answer to the question: What's the plural of Prius?