Archive for the ‘General’ Category

Olympic Candidates – Cities and Logos

Winning the Olimpics isn’t something only athlets aim at, the competition starts early between the candidate hosting cities, which have already designed their logos for the prestigious competition.
The major candidates are Chicago, Madrid, Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo. The International Olympics Committee will announce the Gold Medal winner host on October 2.
But here are the [...]

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Design Adventure of the Day

Here I am on my way to work, half asleep on the train. Two studends are sitting nearby and at some point one goes,”A gradient filter is… hm… makes you go from dark to light, and maximises… Damn! I don’t remember and I just studied it!”
So, still half sleeping, I raise an eyebrow and think, [...]

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Hosting Discounts by SiteGround

It’s almost Christmas time and presents fly around. Your neighbour stops trashing your flowers with the car. Companies make offers. My hosting company, SiteGround, is distributing gift certificates for people who want to buy new services.
Since all the people I know already have their hosting, I thought I’d let you guys know. If you are [...]

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Mayhem Studios Works Featured in David E. Carter’s

Next Book, Big Book of Layouts
PRESS RELEASE
Los Angeles, Calif. – September 12, 2006 – Mayhem Studios recognized for design excellence. The Studios’ works will be featured in David E. Carter’s next book, Big Book of Layouts, which will be in book stores soon. The book will feature outstanding design layout works from around the world.

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How to Write a Great Case Study

Case Studies are a very effective promotional tool. Next to White Papers, they are the second most popular device used to promote the benefits of a product or service. With that in mind, if you’ve been commissioned to write a case study or are new to this area, this backgrounder might help.

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Are Whitelists Spam’s Best Friend?

It looks like spammers are using a tactic of exploiting your spam filters by incorporating known and reputable domain names in their comments. Pariah S. Burke calls this “Whitelist Spam Attacks”. In his blog, iampariah.com, he gives a very detailed and simple explanation of this mechanism which can potentially threat not only your blogs but [...]

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Interested in Creating Mobile Content?

But don’t know where to start? Apple has a whole section about mobile content. While it is imperniated around the creation of mobile content with QuickTime, Apple’s FAQ section gives useful basic information that anyone starting in the mobile publishing field has to know.
The FAQ clearly explains vital things like what 3G, 3GPP and 3GPP2. [...]

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The Value of Your Blog

Here is an interesting article from About.com Weblogs Guide, Shai Coggins, regarding a case study conducted on the sale of Weblogs Inc.
The case study is by Tristan Louis and is based on the number of incoming links as shown Technorati.
Shai also posts a little quiz to find out how much your blog is worth. Do [...]

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The Trained vs the Enthusiastic

A debate between the graphic designer with the degree and the one without

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Apple from the Beginning of Time

Apple Ads Collection for the Most Passionate
Apple is gaining more and more market share with their Mac OS X, their inexpensive Mac Mini and their powerful G5. As Apple released their Mighty Mouse, iPod Nano recently came on the scenes. But have you ever wondered how the very first Apple products looked like? Do you [...]

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