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Creativity & Deadlines
The above video is too good not to share and should be pretty self explanatory as to why we are but we’ll lay it out for you real quick anyhow: Give someone the minimum amount of time required, and you’ll get the obvious solutions. Give creativity enough time, and that’s when you can set yourself [...]
Read moreDesigners VS. Developers
Designers and developers—though they need each other—don’t always see eye-to-eye on things. Without designers, websites and interfaces would look pretty drab and boring. Without developers, websites really wouldn’t do anything all that interesting.
Read moreA Nice Surprise, A Nice Marketing Piece
Got a nice surprise in the mail today: The Super-Incredible Activity Book For Creatives from Veer. If you’re not familar with Veer, they are a website that sells fonts, stock photos and other resources for creatives. First off, it’s not everyday you get a nice, unsolicited direct mail piece like this. Secondly, it’s a pretty [...]
Read moreDISH Network Gets Personal
DISH Network has been in what seems like a never-ending battle, playing third fiddle to DirectTV and big cable providers like Comcast (Xfinity), Cox and Time Warner. Their growth over the last few years has been somewhat impressive and they’ve seen marginal success playing the pricing game in their past campaigns. However, for the most [...]
Read moreFirefox 3.6 is Purty
So after being reminded a dozen times, I finally got around to installing Firefox 3.6. They seem to have made some nice improvements to the browser, although honestly I really don’t take enough advantage of all the add-ons and plug-ins available for Firefox. Anyway, one of the more noticeable changes is the new Personas, that [...]
Read moreWhen Companies Embrace Their Brand Equity
Brands can be funny things sometimes. Companies will spend hours upon hours along with a small fortune to develop, strategize and promote their ideal vision, yet when it comes down to the true brand perception, it is the consumer who gets the final say. As a company, you have the power to lay the groundwork [...]
Read moreWait, is that a pe…?!?!
Every so often, a designer accidentally (or vengefully) designs a logo that is maybe a little too phallic, and the client doesn’t pay enough attention or care to notice that their brand new logo depicts a man’s naughty bits. Unfortunately for these companies, their customers notice, oh do they notice. The London Sperm Bank happened [...]
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