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Re: The birth of a Christmas card. Time-lapse design & illustration

Ryan Short — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 14:44:48 -0000

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Re: Drawing icons for the last 2 days…

DigitalDesignDj — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 18:08:36 -0000

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Re: Fishing With A Hole In Your Net

Carrol Rentschler — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 21:31:55 -0000

There is obviously a lot for me to study about SEO outside of my books at http://www.modassicmarketing.com/2010/01/two-marketing-ruts-to-avoid. Thanks for the fantastic read,

Re: How To Easily Create Website Mockups and Wire Frames

Anonymous — Tue, 04 May 2010 11:12:28 -0000

Hey Laura, glad you found it useful and thanks for the comment! We find that it really helps save time with back and forth revisions.

Re: How To Easily Create Website Mockups and Wire Frames

Laura Grove-Miller — Tue, 04 May 2010 11:07:29 -0000

This is really handy! I am working to get a website together and this really bridges the gaps in communication between myself and the person writing the code. Thank you for sharing!

Re: How To Easily Create Website Mockups and Wire Frames

Kuch — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 21:41:50 -0000

I really like your blog and i respect your work. I'll be a frequent visitor.

Re: Fishing With A Hole In Your Net

kevin — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:36:10 -0000

Great post, so true!

Re: IS EMAIL DEAD?

k.square — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:27:48 -0000

My inbox has simply become a spam receptacle!

Re: How to effectively evaluate and proof a design

KGeeve — Thu, 21 May 2009 10:13:25 -0000

Nice post!

One method I use to evaluate the layout of a design is to look at it from far away. Either from across the room or by zooming way out on the screen. Seeing the layout from a distance will give you a good feel for the balance of the piece.

Re: SEO Tool: Identify No Follow Links

KGeeve — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:50:42 -0000

Aweseom! Very useful!

Re: A great, free, online customer survey tool

jhoward — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 09:27:37 -0000

This is great... i've been looking for a free service just like this!

Re: 10 YEARS OF GOOGLE

KGeeve — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:57:24 -0000

Yeah I think they figured out how to make money

Re: Research vs. Creative

KGeeve — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:35:09 -0000

Haha... this is great!
That is exactly how I feel every time my boss has me design anything. Make the logo bigger!

People need to remember when they hire someone (designer, mechanic, etc) that if they sit there and tell them everything to do then they aren't getting the full value of what they are paying for. If you pay a trained mechanic to fix your car and then tell him exactly what to do you are only paying for someone to hold the wrench for you and miss out on his years of experience and expertise.

People quickly forget this when it comes to design because they may have a vision of how they want it to look they just don't know how to work photoshop so they hire a designer and tell them what to do. They would get much more for their money if they gave their input but then let the designer do the design.

On the flip side though there a lot of designers out there who are more into making an art project than effective business communication. That is what we have loved about working with everyone at modassic. You guys really understand it and offer expertise on both sides!

Re: IS EMAIL DEAD?

reegan — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:04:00 -0000

man i butchered that comment. one day I'll learn to re-check the things I write...

Re: IS EMAIL DEAD?

reegan — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:03:01 -0000

I whole heartedly agree that eventually email (outside of long from) is dying and will die in the near future... the only reason it hasn't yet is because corporations haven't figured out how to store data re: texts, tweets, etc, so it becomes a liability issue. Look at what the issues Palin is going through for using a personal email address for official government business.

Re: Research vs. Creative

Mark McDonough — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:23:13 -0000

Wow. Working at an ad agency, I can't tell you how many times I've seen that scenario play out, obviously not quite to that level of absurdity, but still pretty darn close.

The balancing act between strategy, creative, and client requests is one that will always be there. You succeed when you surround your self with an internal team that understands this balancing act, and when you spend time educating your clients on this up front rather than late in the game.

Now just for fun I thought i'd throw in one of my favorite advertising spoof videos. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

Re: IS EMAIL DEAD?

admin — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 01:54:58 -0000

Good point... email has definitely changed and I agree it's reserved now for more formal communication and business rather than casual correspondence. I received an email the other day about my upcoming high school reunion (oh no) which closed with the statement:

"...be sure and forward this to anyone who isn't copied on this email. We are missing a lot of email addresses because we only have myspace and facebook contacts".

This change is kind of like how CD's caused us to not know song names and instead just song numbers, and cell phones caused us to not know anyone's phone numbers.

Another thought... with the smart phones people now get their email instantly and are basically always online. Have you ever been emailing back and forth with someone who is online at the same time and you end up emailing, waiting, replying, waiting.. then finally after a few back-and-forths one person finally asks "do you have IM? This would be a lot easier?"

Re: IS EMAIL DEAD?

tim — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 01:01:26 -0000

its a valid point you make about the speed of communication picking up w/ texting and IM. however, i believe if anything, email is actually on the rise from a few years ago. why? smartphones. go out in public and start taking note of how many blackberry's, treo's, and iphones you see. this isnt 2-3 years ago when only business men were carrying these. ever "hockey mom and joe six-pack" (excuse my lame topical humor) is carrying a smart phone. whether or not its primarily for text, mobile video, gps, etc.-- email at least for now has the added benefit of being along for the ride.

and think of it this way-- when email came along, there were numerous articles commenting on its informality and questioning whether it could replace the physical letter. today i would bet that most people see email as a more formal means of communication, and IM and text is seen as informal.

so it'll be interesting to see if and for how long email can remain a relevant form of communication, or if it'll slip into its twilight years where i only receive one each year on my birthday when grandma sends me an e-birthday card.

Re: IS EMAIL DEAD?

David Winans — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:07:27 -0000

I remember telling my kids in the 90’s about email…that I thought it was going to be big. They all thought I was crazy I think…aonther one of Dad’s wierd ideas. Well…I was right…it did get big..too big that now we just get blasted each day with mountains of email spam.

I think the figures now are that 80% of email is spam. What if 80% of the time when our doorbell would ring…we run to the door…no one is there. What if 80% of our calls to our cellphones were hangups? What if 80% of our snail mail was junk…hey maybe that is 80%.

So..what do we do? Why not tax 5 cents to send an email….and the money goes to pay off the $700 billion dollar bailout? Maybe this would slow the spam down.

David Winans
http://www.TexasMLS.com
Dallas Texas Real Estate

Re: 10 YEARS OF GOOGLE

jhoward — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:58:21 -0000

Ah, back before AdWords.
I actually remember thinking "how is google going to make money?" Oh.

Re: IS EMAIL DEAD?

k.square — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:53:21 -0000

My inbox has simply become a spam receptacle!