July 2009
Innovative Outdoor: Slower Is Better →
To help the Elm Grove Police discourage speeding, we designed die-cut signs and placed them over roadside radar trailers, which were triggered by speeds above 25 mph.
Credits: …
WatchWatch Material Handling Systems President Jim Warren Interviewed by News 10 on the current state of the economy. | Material Handling Systems, Inc.
YouTube: Viral Wedding Videos Are Great For... →
The conventional wisdom out there on Web video advertising is that most advertisers don’t want to risk being associated with user-generated videos (i.e., the vast bulk of videos on YouTube). It…
Use a 3:2 Inhale-Exhale Ratio for Improved Runs... →
The right equipment, training, and running route isn’t always enough to ensure a good run, especially if your breathing is all over the map. To help stabilize yours, try incorporating a set…
SEO 101: What's a Title Tag? →
I’m spending today trying not to spontaneously combust. Assuming I don’t vanish with a puff of smoke and a FOOMP, this will be a quick primer on title tags. In case you don’t know: In…
Stacey Woods: Branded →
The transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau once wrote, “Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!” That quote maybe considered a mainstay in the pantheon of clichéd quotations from literature, but in the…
Lightning →
A weather front rolls in from the horizon, storm clouds darken the sky, and (at least 1.3 billion times a year) lightning strikes. Last month, the National Weather Service promoted their Lightning…
The ‘Hows’ of Pricing Your Design Work →
Recently I have been receiving many emails from designers asking me what’s the “best practice” for pricing design work or how much do you charge for a design.
I like to start off…
Massive Compilation of Designer Tools →
Web designers have a wealth of tools available to them, for doing everything from organizing their thoughts about a particular design to debugging the final design.
But with so many tools…
Our Favorite Tweets of the Week Jul 19-July 25,... →
Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers.
The best way to keep track of our tweets is…
Brush Up on Getting Things Done with an Updated... →
Since the release of his new book Making It All Work, David Allen has updated his original GTD workflow chart to include the new elements from the book. Peter Mara, an attendee at this…
How Twitter Enables Martha Stewart's Condescension →
Martha Stewart is a frosty domestic diva, tyrant office manager and convicted Wall Street conniver. Not exactly a people person. Which is why, Stewart says, she loves the Twitter — it’s…
The cutest BEAN you ever saw! {Tulare/Visalia... →
Hi Nonnie! I know you’ve refreshed this website a gazillion times. LOL!!! For those of you not versed in Italian, Nonnie is the affectionate name for Grandma. Nonnie has been waiting ever so…
What to Include In Your Design Contracts →
If you’re a freelance graphic designer (or any profession for that matter) and do not have contracts or standard terms and conditions that you provide your clients to sign prior to…
Sweet Tweets: Design Resources of the Week #9 →
Sweet Tweets is a weekend feature to The Design Cubicle highlighting some of my favorite, and other Twitterer’s design-related links discovered via Twitter throughout the work week.
Advertising will change forever →
by Josh Bernoff
Here’s one of the things we do at Forrester Research: we interview as many marketers as we can about their plans, identify trends and project future likely conditions, and then we…
50 Creative and Inspiring 404 Pages →
Whenever a user is trying to reach a website’s page that is non-existent or missing, they are usually directed to a page where they’re informed that that specific page cannot be recalled by…
“Can you explain Megan Fox’s appeal? Yes. She looks like a porn star and...”
– Topless Robot - Bonus! Rob’s Transformers 2 F.A.Q.s! - Page 2
Sweet Tweets: Design Resources of the Week #8 →
Sweet Tweets is a weekend feature to The Design Cubicle highlighting some of my favorite, and other Twitterer’s design-related links discovered via Twitter throughout the work week.
…
Tools and Techniques for Better Lead Generation →
When it comes to promotion, the two biggest problems for most small business owners are effective planning and maintaining a consistent marketing effort. After what seems like a lot of…
Future Marketing Trends – By The Numbers →
Numbers, stats and trends move fast online and are in a near constant state of flux. Following up my post on social media stats, we’re past-due for 2009’s second by-the-numbers look at…
How to add a newsletter signup form to your... →
It has always been easy to put a signup form onto a standard web page, just by copying and pasting the form code from your account. Now it is almost as easy to add the same signup form to your…
The Naked Truth 2009 Slides: Show Me The Money →
Taking place tonight in Seattle is The Naked Truth 2009, a Redfin-hosted conference to give entrepreneurs advice. Michael is there participating as an expert to discuss industry trends….
“Point four: You also may not have noticed, but nobody uses Chrome. I mean think...”
– The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: Let’s all take a deep breath and get some perspective
100 Thoughts on Marketing →
Leo Babauta has written the perfect post for some of the thoughts I’ve been having about marketing, social media and the age of the customer. In it, he encourages us to be lusting for…
Typetec →
Wow! It’s not that often that you see a campaign using this much HTML text so effectively! Where many designers would have opted to use images, Ingage has created this layout for …
President Obama's first 167 days →
U.S. President Barack Obama has now been in office for 167 days, and it’s time for a look back. Why 167 days? Why not - it’s just as arbitrary a number as the usual “100 days”. In that time,…
Become A Beacon On The Digital Landscape →
A beacon is an intentionally conspicuous device designed to focus attention on a specific location.
Visualize what image the word beacon conjures in your mind: perhaps a lighthouse…
Video: 50 Cent Confronts Sexman →
I don’t recall how the YouTube user Pruane2Forever, aka “Sexman”, came on my radar, but I definitely remember a few of his videos from a couple years ago. (Here’s a old favorite — Not Safe…
Web Design Trend Hunting - Fluid Grid Layout: 10+... →
In our daily web hunting raids we have spotted another interesting & good-looking trend - the fluid grid-based layout, mostly used by galleries and visual inspiration blogs. Here are
20 Questions To Ask Clients Prior To Designing A... →
Before starting any project it’s essential to get the right preliminary information from your clients. This will help pave the way to a successful project, assist in bringing client’s vision into…
The 10 Year Savings Strategy: Saving money after... →
What do you do when you’re already saving, investing, and automating your money? What’s the next step?
What to do after you’ve handled the basics. Use the 10 Year Savings Strategy to…