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Is You In Or Is You Out?
I admit that I haven't paid the slightest attention to the growing concern in the creative community about the Shawn Bentley Orphan Works Act. But having just stumbled across a cogent explanation of what lies behind the Act and... It all sounds so innocent when you visit the Copyright Office site... Read more...
Published 2 days ago

The Last Scan - Whew!
Hey, everybody! I know I've been boring you with the esoteric scannable items from my treasure trove and thought I'd bore you one more time. This last batch of scans really have no rhyme or reason, they're just sort of... I came across an old image of the Paul Revere logo and business card that I... Read more...
Published 3 days ago

Design Meets Documentary: Gunnin' for That #1 Spot
Today's documentary films rarely surprise me. These days, it seems doc-makers don't have the talent or the intuition to know how much distance to take from their subjects--either they're alienated from the reality of what they show by prejudice or... If you think this isn't for you because you're... Read more...
Published a week ago

Scannable Items - Oranges, Schmoranges
Remember when agricultural items were shipped in wooden crates with those beautiful labels on them? I don't really, but I came across some of those ornate orange crate labels recently and had to scan them. The history behind these labels is... Back in the 1880s, the citrus growers in California... Read more...
Published a week ago

Writing ad copy: How to prove your product’s superiority
In recent posts, I have provided tips for designers wishing to take on copywriting assignments, in addition to their usual design projects. So far we have covered the briefing meeting, conceptualizing marketing collateral, drafting copy, grabbing the reader's attention, writing... You’ve... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago

Scannable Items - 2nd Time Around
O.K., round two on the scanning series. This time around I poked through my files and found some interesting items to share. This dude on the right is, of course, The Hulk. I found him a few years back... Keeping with the Sci-Fi theme, these next two items are from a calendar, yes, another one,... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago

So Long, Marianne
The stories that countries tell about themselves are rife with half-truths, propped up with fetishistic elements that speak in a special code to the initiated. Americans have the Liberty Bell, Mount Rushmore, the Statue of Liberty, the Declaration of... A surprisingly durable element of this... Read more...
Published 3 weeks ago

Scanable Topics - Take One
For a long time now, I've been a scanner. I find many things in my world, mainly printed, that I just have to keep for possible future use. So, I scan them and file them away. Granted, I am... A while back, I had a calendar that came with 12 monthly 11 x 17 posters of movie classics from the '30s... Read more...
Published 3 weeks ago

I Am Red, Hear Me Roar
There are hundredsâ€"yes, hundredsâ€"of awards available to those in the ad agency biz, ensuring that just about everyone should take home a prize at some point. Not that competition for these bits of plastic and glass isn't intense, since... But if there's one prize that agency types most dream... Read more...
Published 4 weeks ago

I'm Not Eating a Dunkin' Donut or Going to WalMart, Either
There are studies and surveys out there on virtually every type of consumer and buying habit known to Man (or Woman). Marketers, advertisers, and smart businesses rely on the findings of these surveys in order to appease and talk to...   I read the article on this in ON Magazine and the... Read more...
Published a month ago

The Death of a Psychedelic Rock Artist
I was reading the Times the other day when I came across an obituary that gave me pause. It seems that Alton Kelley, one of the preeminent pyschedelic rock poster artists, died at his home in Petaluma, California. He was... Mr. Kelley and his collaborator, Stanley Mouse, were the designers of... Read more...
Published a month ago

Welcome to the App Frame
If you're into Photoshop, and I mean really into Photoshop, there's no limit to your interest in learning everything you can about it, both related to its current incarnation and future versions. And for a look into the future,... A Mac user since 1984, Nack joined Adobe in 2000 after leaving a... Read more...
Published a month ago