The Visual Marketing Advantage
A couple of months ago while at Epcot, I had the privilege of sharing a beer hall dinner table with James Coleman. He has spent the last 50 years working on Disney art and animation. He was the background art director for movies such as The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast. While talking with him, …
Is your visual style going through a facelift? Or, perhaps your company, on its way to world domination, has bought out a competitor? Either way, one thing’s for certain: It’s time to rebrand everything you’ve ever made. How to begin? Take it from a veteran of both situations: You don’t want to go in blind. …
Everyone has a pretty good idea of the biggest movie stars in the world. Cruise. Hanks. Pitt. Smith. But there is one actor who consistently turns in a star performance, year after year after a year. For nearly 20 years, the top-grossing films have included one legendary actor adding his magic touch to the movie …
Last week Vala Afshar published a review of Brian Solis’ new book X: The Experience When Business Meets Design. I created the SlideShare that goes along with it. 10 Design Experience X-Factors from Vala Afshar
For the third year in a row, I’ve been fortunate to attend the Email Design Conference presented by Litmus. Each year we are inundated by some of the best email marketing designers and developers in the world. Email marketing is one of those areas where there are 100 ways to skin a cat. Everyone has their own best practices, …
By now you’ve heard the stories: Periscope and Meerkat are the hot apps for live-streaming video. Now that they’re both available for iOS and Android, usage is going to go through the roof. This post isn’t about which app is better. There are plenty of articles all over the web focused on that debate. This post is to let you know that …
In 2012 I was hired by Enterasys Networks (now Extreme Networks) to be an in-house designer. At the time, the company was using the services of two different creative agencies. Enterasys’ main concerns were 1) the cost of external agencies and 2) the delay in getting requests completed. I was brought in to address both of …
May 15th marked 15 years as a professional-someone-actually-pays-me-to-do-this designer. I still remember the day I walked into my first real design job and sat in my cubicle. But that wouldn’t have happened if I hadn’t passed that job interview. For the past couple of years, I’ve been fortunate to go back to my alma mater and …
Sunday, May 17th marked the finale to one of the greatest shows in television history. Late on Saturday afternoon, my wife gave me the idea for this blog post/SlideShare presentation. I already had the images created due to an incomplete poster project. I found a topic and then mapped quotes to go along with the characters …