RT @TechCrunch: The Phone Stacking Game: Let's Make This A Thing http://t.co/wsnKQyxV by @anthonyha
Yikes! I have a Kindle problem – might as well track it. I don't look at this so much as a challenge but more like "oh god, did I really spend that much money on downloads this year?" Here's hoping someone can create a book rental service like Netflix or Rdio.
Photo courtesy of CO+HOOTS and eeko studio.
Thanks, Jenny!
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There are lots of tweets going on at the AIGA PIVOT Design conference. If you want to go back later and see the stuff you missed here is the live blog recap starting on Saturday, October 15, 2011.
Enjoy!
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I’m usually the one doing the interviewing. But in Kelly Kingman‘s new book, I sat down with her to discuss how design firms hire photographers. Our chat covered tips for submitting photographer portfolios (a lot of my tips apply to designers, too), working with art directors, do’s and don’ts for how to get noticed and working with clients.
Kelly has a fun and casual interview style. The book is full of tips and plenty of guidance for new photographs. Reading it feels like you are chatting with a seasoned pro giving out hard-earned advice. And Fervor Creative‘s work is displayed throughout the book with our insights on working with photographers.
For a limited time, buy it from Digital Photography School for $29.99. If you have questions or want to chat with Kelly, finder her on Twitter. Thanks!
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The HOW Design Conference is taking place in Chicago right now. Last time it took place in Chicago I was just entering into the design profession. It was my first design conference and still many years later I continue to see the lasting effects the event had on my career.
Sadly, I’m not headed out to Chicago this month. Instead, I’ve sicked my live blogging tool Cover It Live on the Twitter feeds coming out of the Windy City. Feel free to peruse the conversation at your own pace.
Thanks!
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Today is the last day of #SXSWi 2011. I’m home now but don’t want to miss a thing. That said, I’ve set up one last live blog. This will archive all #sxsw and #sxswi tweets for the next 24 hours.
Now at least we can pretend I’m there and look up something later if needed. Enjoy!
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“I am terrified of this industry…isn’t that stupid?” This is what my friend, a current graphic design student said about our profession. I find our industry and design community to be active and fun, filled with visionaries, entrepreneurs and go getters.
But for the 45 minutes following his remark we talked about his fears and I offered some tips and insights on graduating from design school and getting a design job. Here’s a recap of that conversation.
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Here are some things I’ve learned so far. Take these tips and run with them. Why should you listen to me you ask? Well, for one thing my business card title has “Social Media” on it. No joke, I hustled enough to get it. And second, I just had 3 people write to me on the same day last week asking to pick my brain on this very subject. Instead of keeping all this between us four, here they are for your benefit.
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Last week Kris Layon of Two Apps Per Day brought up an interesting point about designing for the iPad. He related it to the great Wild West. It was such a good description for not only iPad design, but social media and the new frontier of our web culture.
For instance, there is no degree for social media. Every now and then I get a random job offer in social media for a national organization and even other web firms in town. That said, here are some predictions for social media and our web future.
In the mid to late-90s, every company and anyone with an idea hurried to put up a web site so they could start marking money. Corporations couldn’t grow their web business fast enough. And the web industry made quite a bit of money. In 2000 our bubble crashed and all the bad ideas fell through the floor. We took a step back and refined what worked online and adjusted our perceptions and actions accordingly.
E-commerce is now commonplace. We trust it because it’s become part of our lives. We know the pitfalls and procedures. One of the most amazing inventions was Amazon.com‘s patented one-click ordering system. If you use iTunes, you use this system everyday without even thinking about it.
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