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Please Help New York's Young Scholars
From the Scholars Program at Parson School of Design in New York City:
The Scholars Program is a scholarship program designed to allow talented New York City high school students to take classes at Parson's School of Design Pre-College Academy's Saturday Art Program. The cost is $3000 for three years which covers costs of tuition, art supplies, ( Read more... ) -
Innovation in Display Advertising?
Sarah Lacy suggests in this new post on TechCrunch that innovation in the area of display advertising is a must for the industry to survive long in the long run. I could not agree more.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/25/online-ads-even-the-evangelists-turning-bearish/
Also the IAB introduced 3 new sizes. Not exactly what I have advocated, I would ( Read more... ) -
The Death of Magazines
Here is a great chart from the NY Times that shows the declining number of advertisements per page for magazines. It's not all that surprising given the current economy and the continued rise of digital media. Does it mean digital ad spends will increase? In the long term I think it does, however the online advertising industry is in desperate need ( Read more... ) -
The Designers Republic Folds
The design agency that defined a generation has closed it's doors. I remember people fighting over the tDR edition of Emigre (which is sitting on a shelf next to me right now).
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Display Advertising, Relic of the Past that Will Soon Die Out?
Nobody likes banner ads. Have you ever heard any one speak positively about them? I think it's very interesting that even industry insiders openly talk about their contempt for banner ads. The same insiders whose salaries are in part paid by them. While Internet display advertising may have achieved sales larger than out-of-home advertising it ( Read more... ) -
Self Publishing To Outperform Real Publishing?
Here is an interesting article from the NyTimes about how the technology to enable self published books continues to evolve and may even out strip the traditional publishing world. These numbers really surprised me:
Self publishing ... “It used to be an elite few,” said Eileen Gittins, chief executive of Blurb, a print-on-demand company whose ( Read more... ) -
Should I Stay Or Should I Go?
"Should I stay or should I go now...", Joe Strummer and The Clash said it best. Given all the recent changes at LiveJournal (my team and I were laid off), I wasn't sure what to do about my Journal any more.
So I took a break and I thought through the options. I could move to Word Press, or some other system. I could become a Twitter fanatic (not my ( Read more... ) -
Clever Illustrations from NY Times
I thought these were great.
http://niemann.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/02/coffee/?em
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