February 8, 2011 – 2:28 pm
Sevnthsin is looking for an experienced, talented, motivated Sr. Designer for an available staff position. US: Small interactive design agency specializing in forward-thinking solutions, specifically in the mobile/social realm, to help our clients engage their audience in new and exciting ways. We’re also incredibly passionate about what we do, and we bring that passion to [...]
November 3, 2008 – 9:45 pm
Considering Amazon doesn’t have a retail store front where physical products – the product’s packaging doesn’t need to be marketing or theft-proof. A round of applause for Amazon for coming up with this innovation and for having the pull with manufacturers to implement it. Not only does this save frustration, it also uses fewer materials, [...]
September 30, 2008 – 11:24 am
I love the MN design community. It’s filled with people that go out and build stuff to scratch their own itch. The latest example of this: Websota – built by the FiveTechnology team 1. “Aaron Weiche of Five [Technology] wanted a home for the great web design work close to home here in Minnesota.” There [...]
It’s been nearly a decade since Alan Cooper first published The Inmates Are Running the Asylum – a great book stating the obvious: software developers are rarely the people software is developed for. In it Cooper promotes the use of archetypical descriptions of people, Personas, to keep the software development team focused on the customer. [...]
Tumblon a new Minneapols-based parenting startup is looking for a Visual Designer and a Marketing/PR manager Their blog: http://blog.tumblon.com/ Contact Jonathan Dahl for more information.
I was perusing the latest HOW Design Annual and came across an article on pricing trends. It was a report on the data HOW collected via their pricing survey. Two numbers popped out at me. The first was the low range of hourly graphic design work in the Midwest: $17. Wow. That person must have [...]
October 26, 2007 – 1:06 pm
Well, it serves me right for being completely off the AIGA radar these days, but esteemed design book author and critic Steven Heller is going to be here on November 1 for a lecture hosted by the College of Visual Arts at the History Center in St. Paul. Alas, it’s sold out. But there WILL [...]
October 26, 2007 – 11:21 am
Time for a Friday break from pixels. Let’s talk books. The family headed out to their favorite place the other night…B&N. I usually hang out in the kids section where the Thomas the Train set is while the missus does her thing. Which is just fine, as any graphic designer knows that the ‘cool’ books [...]
October 8, 2007 – 8:38 am
Paula Scher. For HP. Yes, HP. The owners of everyone’s favorite sweat-shop clip art factory: Logoworks. Paula asks “What do you have to say?” All I can say is ‘huh?’