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By Diane Domeyer, Executive Director, The Creative Group, specialized staffing service placing interactive, design, marketing, advertising and public relations professionals with a variety of firms. To remain a cutting-edge creative professional, you recognize the value of keeping your skills sharp. But when you’re job hunting or looking to advance in your organization, it’s just as important
by Andy Solages My interest in history and my use of popular artificial intelligences have me thinking about how we extend our human selves in terms of power and existence through our technology. Clive Thompson’s Smarter Than You Think (which I wrote about here) informs these thoughts, and I hear whispers of Carl Sagan’s famous
posted by Amanda Ciccatelli Millennials are the most diverse generation in history – only 59% are Caucasian and 27% have an immigrant background (Deloitte, 2015). Therefore, it’s no surprise that this demographic expects brands to embrace and reflect the diversity of their lives – a trend previously highlighted by Stylus Life in our report No
by Amanda Aszman If you’re taking the DIY route on holiday cards this year but are blanking on what to do, you’re in good company. HOW Twitter follower Ben Lee recently expressed the same and asked whether we had any inspiration for him. Well, we do now. Have a look at the holiday card design below to inspire your
by Digital Arts Staff Despite the emergence of Adobe XD, Sketch is still the go-to application for designing apps and websites – and the components within them. Version 4.1 has just been released, which adds new features and a new look to its icon. It’s free for current owners of the application, which costs $99
Max Willens Facebook might have over a billion daily active users. But in an attempt to drive mass adoption of Facebook Live, it has turned to TV, becoming a major advertiser there in the process. Last month, the company launched the largest TV-advertising campaign in its history, airing over 20 different commercials more than 1,700 times, and
Now that we will have Donald Trump as president and the GOP retaining control of Congress, all bets are off on the future of the Affordable Care Act. It’s likely that Trump will hand over the health insurance reform portfolio to Speaker Paul Ryan, who along with the House leadership in July published a blueprint
By: Nikita Prokhorov In this helpful tutorial, Nikita Prokhorov teaches us how to make an ambigram of the word “online.” I am blessed to have been raised by a family of artistic people. My grandfather was an architect and a painter. My mother and grandmother, despite making their careers as psychiatrists, loved art and could
by Danny Wong Co-founder of Blank Label. Marketing at Conversio and Tenfold As technology continues to advance and more companies become competent at using it to market their product or services, it becomes more critical to have a website that really performs. Consumers are not only looking to company websites for information, but utilizing online sites
by Keith Koons Every company has at least one design experience that they wish they could just forget about. In fact, some of us have several of those painful memories where common sense temporarily eluded us. There is certainly no shame in making design mistakes though, as long as it serves as a learning experience of
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