“Designing remains no more a tricky task with Multi function Design Table”
Yes please, I’ll take two.
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Thanks to The Watercooler for providing a good location and to Kickstand for providing a great enjoyable evening.
I liked Brian Lundqiust’s breakdown of applying metrics to your marketing. I also am in agreement with the notion of automating whatever sales processes you have. I would have liked to know a menagerie of automation tools now at the disposal of marketers, or at least a few.
Unfortunately most entrepreneurs tend to market with their gut, and are there own salespeople. How do you deal with that?
The stand out to me was Mr. Lundquist had “Youtube” video on the list of basic marketing materials. I couldn’t agree more. In discussing this with Jason Huntsperger of The ImageryLab, we were challenged with two impediments:
1) Most startups unaware of the value of video for web, fail to publish thier video for tv on the web, and/or fail to produce video that reaches both audiences.
2) Most startups don’t attempt DIY video for web.
(Coleslaw is not a finger food & Mr.Lundquist, keep working on your Pee Wee impression. I look forward to attending his “2-4 hour seminar that drills down on the strategies” and will post the info when it becomes available.)
Thoughts, or comments?
Adobe brings Photoshop.com to the iPhone
The app is free of charge and offers tools such as cropping, image rotation, color controls, and simple one-touch filter effects that can change the look and feel of shots all at once. It also features undo and redo controls so that if users make a mistake, or want to revert back to the original, it takes just a few taps.
via CNET News
Next: a light ap for video please.
Jon Hicks on his love/hate relationship with Fireworks.
Now I didn’t use Fireworks until I started a job where we used it about 2 years ago, but now I’ve got used to it I really have no idea how people can do screen design in Photoshop all day, its clunky as f*** for web design even with its vector tools and smart objects.
Don’t get me wrong its awesome for Photo manipulation and art working, but for laying out websites with forms, buttons etc its a complete nightmare. Oh and thats even when working with tidy designers, work with someone who can’t name layers and its a fu***ng nightmare. Most Photoshop users never realise this though because Fireworks seems so clunky at first glance that you only ever learn how to use it if your boss basically forces you into it because he can’t use Photoshop.
Basically Fireworks could be a game changer, it just needs a sensible rewrite by a talented team, needs to stop pretending to be some developer tool for mocking up AIR integrated RIA buzzword drenched sh**. I mean really Adobe couldn’t you have invested all the money you wasted on garbage like Photoshop.com, Adobe TV, Adobe Drive, and all that other nonsense and just invested some money in fixing Fireworks’ problems.
tl;dr: Fireworks is a buggy, clunky mess but its still better at doing my job than Photoshop
Agreed.
Graduate designer Nadia Troeman has created a branding system for her school, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. Each student fills out a questionnaire inquiring over their own personal cultures, to create their own personal logo (on the right). These individual logos are compiled together for each class, and each class compiles together to make the overall university logo. (via)
‘Narrative Identities’ raises the question of identity, specifically cultural identity, in a world of increasing globalization where people and cultures are converging more than ever before. The question ‘who are you?’ is becoming increasingly difficult for some people to answer. Cultures are meeting, morphing and exchanging. The idea of a fixed identity is becoming redundant. We have to be able to play with representations in order to show a more accurate picture of who we are culturally. My project illustrates a variety of cultural references and challenges our interpretation and understanding of what these references mean to us today.
“Missed, Taken”
My friend and filmaker Brandon Freeman produced this short film (10:00) it also stars my other friend John Ravewnholtz. It recently was featured in the Idaho International Film Festival.
“Yale drops a classic Paul Rand logo for a typeface”
Some say “if your organization is lucky enough to have a classic Paul Rand logo, never change it”
Opinions?
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As of lately, Mark Weaver has definitely been making his way around the blogosphere. His style is a mixture of cut and paste and computer graphics, seamlessly blending together cut outs from old National Geographic magazines and old books to find just the right pieces. His output is also phenomenal, I mean the guy releases nearly a piece a day on his Flickr, which is pretty outstanding, as they’re all pretty great. — (via +KN | Kitsune Noir)
When it comes to defending their trademarks and logos, no company is more fervent than Apple. If they could challenge Victoria School of Business and Technology for having a logo 
