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An argument for conferences
A while ago I happened to catch this tweet from Atom @atomgroom – Lol, all that info is available for free, online! Waste of money on conferences! and thought hey that would make a good topic to talk about on NWI Creative, so now months later I’m finally getting it done. First, you have read more »
A Complete Beginner’s Manual for Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)
The Ubuntu community just release a new guide designed to be user friendly and easy to follow with many screenshots. Ubuntu has been one of the fastest growing Linux distributions to date. Linux is an Open Source operating system that allows you to use software whose source code is published and made available to read more »
Googling your inspiration
There is a lot of debate on the use of tutorial blogs and magazines for design education. It seems to be a touchy subject between designers of all levels. I have been apart of many conversations that questioned the usefulness of sites such as Smashing Magazine or Web Designer Depot. Sometimes these discussions can read more »
INsight into a conference
ot to long ago we ended our third INsight event, I feel like our best event-to-date. The conference will continue to evolve with each year and the more we can do to engage our creative community, we will. If people had more inside information, they might understand the work that goes into making this read more »
Creating an Online Community
What does it take to create an online community? This post is about my experience with creating the NWI Creative.org community, the good, the bad, and the real. Creating an online community might possibly be the biggest challenge of my career. Although, it doesn’t really seem that hard right? Buy a domain, do your read more »
When is enough, ENOUGH?!
I am curious, when is enough, ENOUGH? When do we take the stand that we are the experts. We understand you really love fusia, and comic sans, but it will not bode well for your business. When do we put our foot down and say no, I am not going to read more »
How do you McPlayland…
As a kid my favorite game we use to play on those dead air summer nights in north west Pennsylvania was "Kick The Can". Which as vintage as the game may be it was adapted to suit all players in the game. The rules were simple and everyone who wanted to read more »
What’s the cut off point?
he past two weeks I’ve had two potential clients ask me to expand my services to more of a marketing roll. Marketing in the sense of, finding ad placement, booking promotional opportunities and new/different ways to promote their services. Up until now my services as a freelance designer have been focused primarily in print read more »
Picture Taker or Story Teller?
When a lot of photographers (including myself) find something they want to take a picture of they pull their camera up to their eye, compose the shot, adjust their camera settings, press the shutter button down, and look at the LCD screen on the back of their camera to see if it was properly read more »
Why does cheap design = bad design?
I often fill down time searching the web for shops in NWI that offer some type of design related service. And more times than not the correlation between low cost design (cheap $) and bad design (not Michael Jackson, Bad) goes hand and hand. Which brings up the question… Why? Why are there so read more »