Category archive: Design & Creative
The Greatest Flash Drives of All Time!
One of the super-cool things I discovered at Comic-Con San Diego a few years back – are these portable flash drives. Star Wars themed gadgets are always going to get my attention. And if I really have a use for it, like I do with these thumb drives, I’m all over it! The company is
DetailsThe MicroStock Debate Rages On!
This is the big debate over MicroStock sites where you can sell your images for as little as $1. Is this the future of Stock Photography? Or a thorn in the side of the photography business.
DetailsFinancial Direct Mail Marketing is Down
For the first 11 months of 2008, financial services direct mail volume down 26% to 10.3 billion. In 2007 estimated that volume at 13.9 billion. And when compared to the same period of 2006, the 2008 11-month total shows a 32% decline.
DetailsTo print, or not to print … or just send an email
This is another BIG topic for the creative services and print industry. Will we continue to print stuff? Or is everything going to be as easy as, just sending an email? I think everyone agrees, print won’t go away for go0d, but the internet has opened up a whole new world of communication and direct
DetailsOutsourcing design, spec work or work for free?
Don’t look now, creative services is the next industry under attack. With the availability of Adobe Creative Suite we’ve turned everyone with a computer and access to a peer-to-peer file sharing server into a graphic designer. And anyone who can muddle their way through a Myspace web page design, now considers themselves a designer. And now this new crop of creative spark plugs have an outlet online and it’s called – crowdsourcing.
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