Doodle the Dust Off
Working in a creative field can be incredibly rewarding and fun. You get to do the work you love, sometimes effortlessly, by simply working those God-given left brain muscles. However, […]
Design
A Serious Look at Comic Sans
Comic Sans is a font that people love to hate. I’ll admit it—I myself am one of those haters. But I didn’t know the backstory of this designer-despised font until […]
You Need A Social Media Expert…And That’s OK
We are in the height of the technology age, where phones are used for everything except calling, cars park themselves, and social media is the number one source of information.
A strong social media presence is essential in the marketing efforts of nonprofits and small businesses, so it is important that you have social media expert on staff or outsource to an agency with expertise in inbound marketing through social media. Gone are the days where social media was optional. Your customers, donors, volunteers, beneficiaries and partners are all using social media to communicate, and a social media expert provides the flexibility, organization and analytical acumen to ensure your business is a part of the conversation.
How Do These Ads Get Approved?
I know most people are over Pepsigate by now. That’s how the 24-hour news cycle works, I guess. I pulled some quotes from an article in the Atlantic (How on […]
Unpaid but Valuable. An Internship Could Equal a Job.
I learned early in my college career that if I wanted “real-world experience” I needed to get out into the real world. I was fortunate enough to have an incredible […]
Internship or Internment?
I never interned while I was in college, so I missed that whole experience. After six years, I have gained plenty of experience being on the other side of the internship equation, and as an employer (i.e. the offerer of internships), I have gleaned a few things from some extremely pleasant interns and other excruciatingly painful internship periods that may be helpful to other small businesses thinking about offering an internship and for college students considering starting an internship.
Web Design and Storytelling
One thing I’ve continued to learn since joining FCG is that the most important part of designing a website isn’t composing something that is aesthetically beautiful/appealing (although we think we’ve […]
Easy Like Saturday Morning
Toward the end of Ed Catmull’s Creativity, Inc., Catmull includes a chapter dedicated to tech and design legend Steve Jobs. In that chapter, Catmull shares an exchange between Jobs and a Pixar […]
My Thoughts on “Life and Death in the App Store”
But the App Store’s middle class is small and shrinking. And the easy money is gone. I found this article (Life and Death in the App Store by Casey Newton) on Longform.org (a […]