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A printer buddy just sent me this map which shows a lime lapse video of the change in the unemployment by county across the country....
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Did you ever pick the wrong line in a store? It happens to everyone. Stores that care about their customers are trying to do something about it.
The United States Postal Service (Post Office) has announced that they will have to shut down this winter if Congress does not bail them out. This won't happen. At least not permanently.
This is a scare tactic.
In my last post, I gave you some tips on saving money on printing. Here are a few tips on saving money on direct mail marketing....
There are lots of ways to save money on your printing costs. Here are a few easy ideas....
We had quite a few people call and stop by and comment on our post Words and Pictures. In light of that, this is backfilling—a brief history of printing and why images were downplayed. Early on in the history of printing, pictures went away. Grown up books, serious books did not have...
Putting images with text is an ancient idea. First came the pictures—think hieroglyphics or cave drawings. Alphabets grew out of pictorial representations. Words came from pictures. Then pictures were used with words to explain or add meaning or context to the words.
Along came printing and pictures were still there, but
The job of the leader is not just to make decisions it's to make sense.
— John Seely Brown
At the recent Willow Creek Association (WCA) Global Leadership Summit we were able to witness great leadership in action....
I had an interesting discussion with a customer the other day. She asked me about my price for a couple of color copy projects. Even though both parties would have agreed that my print shop had a better solution based on quality, materials, and guaranteed completion time, we did not do her work because of cost.
It seems she is basing my price against her perceived internal copy cost....
A QR Code (QR stands for quick response) is a smart phone camera readable bar code that can store a website address, email address, phone number, or any other alpha numeric info.
QR codes are two-dimensional barcodes that, when scanned using a smartphone equipped with a camera and QR code reader app, deliver a Web page or other content. Although they may occupy a small amount of space on the printed page, each code can contain an enormous amount of data, including your destination URL and tracking information.
Re: 4 Traits of Good Design
Great synopsis. As an amateur designer, I look for simple methods to follow so I don't look foolish.
--Showtime Bob