I have convinced one of my coolest and most talented friends, Karel, to join me on this site and guest write. Karel runs 2octave, a company specializing in sound design and audio identities. In one of our fuzzy cloud “wouldn’t that be cool” chats this morning, we chewed over how cool it would [...]
I found this snippet below to be particularly relevant to my last post. This is also from Adbusters issue 70. This isn’t the first place that I’ve seen such doom and gloom declarations about the advertising and marketing industries. Heck, there’s even a pretty neat book out called Advertising is Dead: Long Live Advertising! (on [...]
“This is not uniqueness, it’s the image of uniqueness.” People carefully designed these images to trick me into chasing them as if they’re real.
You’re being too idealistic, man. What we express, for instance, is a long collage we copy and paste from what we’ve seen or read or heard which was itself duplicated over and [...]
I just had to post this:
Adobe Creative Suite 3.0 launch confirmed for March 27
Although the Adobe remained mum on specific features and applications due with Creative Suite 3.0, the company is billing the launch as “the largest software release in Adobe’s 25-year history.”
Creative Suite 3.0 has been one of the most highly anticipated high-end software [...]
Can creativity be learned? I got the latest issue of Point, the AIGA Colorado Education Journal, last week in the mail. They have a feature article, bfa vs. ba, that discusses the benefits and disadvantages of various college design programs.
…the AIGA and NASAD do not recognize professional undergraduate degree programs with less than a [...]
Face it, you’re a cashier, not a “customer relations engineer.”
The figures from the job world don’t look so good, from both sides. According to Salary.com, about 65% of workers said they planned on looking for a new job last year. With the predominant reason being they wanted better pay. Survey results suggest however, that less [...]
Salary.com has posted their survey results of the top 10 “sexiest” jobs:
Firefighter (median salary: $38k)
Flight attendant ($52k)
CEO ($682k)
Reporter ($47k)
Interior designer ($47k)
Event planner ($52k)
Nurse ($57k)
Teacher ($50k)
Doctor ($270k)
Lawyer ($143k)
We also found out, based on a large number of write-in votes; that you don’t necessarily have to be a firefighter to be driving around all day putting out [...]
David Carson will be speaking in Denver next month through the AIGA. I couldn’t find precisely what his “presentation” will be about, but I’m sure it will be something related to design.
The man has an unbelievable following and impact on the design industry. He’s written the best selling design book of all time, The [...]
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