Summer is on its way in North America. The days are getting longer, the weather’s warming up, and people are spending time outside. And nowadays, most of those people have a cellphone handy.
Startups in the long-simmering QR code market are hoping that the change in season, along with what they say is a “critical mass” of smart phones, will finally bring QR codes, barcodes that lead to URLs or information when scanned, into the mainstream.
Read more here.
UPDATE: This related article is also interesting: Quick Response Codes 101: Applications in Print Marketing
Mike Fleischner Business, Design, Technology
From top to bottom:
Vanessa and Dave show off the prize for the Berman DeValerio First Place for Websites. View the site here.
Jennifer Irvine, Marketing Director at Sherin and Lodgen, shown here holding the first place award for Single Ads, with Marketing Assistant Caroline Von Flatern, Vanessa and Dave. View the ad here.
Aria Vaida, Marketing Director at Bernkopf Goodman, shown here with Vanessa and Dave and the first place award for Ad Campaigns. View the ads here.
Theresa Bomba, Denise Wilson, and Shelley Swanson of Goulston & Storrs, shown here with Vanessa and Dave and the second place win for Announcements. View the animated announcement here.
Mike Fleischner Announcements, Business, Design
When it comes to image editing, resolution is one of the toughest concepts to understand. It’s also the most important concept to grasp when it comes to printing photos that look good. In this article you’ll learn what the heck resolution really is, when you need to worry about it, and how to tie those concepts into your final printed image.
To make sense of it all, we’ll start by taking a closer look at your digital photos to see what they’re made of.
Read more here.
Mike Fleischner Design, Technology
Happy holidays! Another year, and we’ve just sent our Holiday E-Card out. Turn up your volume and click here or the image to the right to watch it. Please forward to friends as well!!
Mike Fleischner Fun, Networking
To most people, typefaces are pretty insignificant. Yet to their devotees, they are the most important feature of text, giving subliminal messages that can either entice or revolt readers, says Tom de Castella.
When Avatar, the biggest grossing movie of all time was released, one section of the audience was immediately outraged.
Graphic designers hated it. Why? They didn’t like the font that director James Cameron had chosen for the subtitles.
“I hated it on the posters and then threw up a little in my mouth when I realised I would have to read that ugly font throughout the film in the subtitles,” one blogger commented.
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Mike Fleischner Design Design
