These Are the People in Your Agency

Posted Wednesday, 21 October 2009 by Peter Alexander in Design, Entertainment
These Are the People in Your Agency
If you work in an ad agency or design house, chances are you’re surrounded by strange and mysterious people with confusing job titles and strange habits of speech and dress. This guide will help you understand the people that you meet each day.
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Launching Freebie Images WordPress Plugin

Posted Monday, 12 October 2009 by Sverre Bech-Sjøthun in Technology, Design, Trends
Launching Freebie Images WordPress Plugin
Spice up your blog with professional, high quality, free stock photos & images! With an amazingly simple Drag and Drop interface, blogging has never been this easy!
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6 Photographic Guilty Pleasures, from FAIL to War Photography

Posted Monday, 31 August 2009 by Peter Alexander in Photography, Entertainment
6 Photographic Guilty Pleasures, from FAIL to War Photography
Great photography can change the world. But who cares? These photographic guilty pleasures will make you laugh, make you gag and even turn you on. And let's just admit it; we all look, and then hate ourselves in the morning.
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6 Colors That Changed The World

Posted Thursday, 13 August 2009 by Peter Alexander in Design, Photography
6 Colors That Changed The World
From humankind's first Picasso and a teen's failure that launches a new industry, to unlocking the origin of the universe, we take a look at the history of color. Read on to learn why there are bugs in your yogurt and how this changed the world...
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Propaganda Parodies Part 2: Join the Proctological Corps!

Posted Tuesday, 4 August 2009 by Lars Hasvoll Bakke in Design, Entertainment, Inspiration
Propaganda Parodies Part 2: Join the Proctological Corps!
This week's selection of propaganda parodies is a real hodgepodge, mixing German Luftwaffels, French defeatism, homo-erotic sailors and a whole lot of general shenanigans.
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7 Common Design Mistakes That Clients Love (and how to fight back)

Posted Thursday, 30 July 2009 by Peter Alexander in Design, Entertainment, Inspiration
7 Common Design Mistakes That Clients Love (and how to fight back)
From flash intros, to logo theft, to information overload, clients often ask a design team to do a lot of stuff that’s just plain wrong. Here are 7 of the most common mistakes clients might ask you to make -- and how to talk some sense into them.
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20 Cheesiest Pick-up Lines to Use on Graphic Designers

Posted Thursday, 23 July 2009 by Peter Alexander in Design, Entertainment, Photoshop
20 Cheesiest Pick-up Lines to Use on Graphic Designers
If you’re looking to romance a graphic designer, we can help. Here are some ice-breakers cheesier than Cheez Whiz guaranteed to help you find someone to love, to hold and to go halfers on a new copy of Photoshop CS4 with you.
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Propaganda Parodies Part 1: Burger King Babies & Kim Jong-Il in Pink

Posted Wednesday, 15 July 2009 by Lars Hasvoll Bakke in Design, Entertainment, Inspiration
Propaganda Parodies Part 1: Burger King Babies & Kim Jong-Il in Pink
It's all about sticking it to The Man this week, as we have a look at how professional and amateur artists alike use propaganda elements in their attacks on the powers that be. Not exciting enough? How does Kim Jong-Il in an Adidas track suit or Richard Nixon bowling sound then?
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10 Famous Works of Art (with client feedback)

Posted Monday, 13 July 2009 by Peter Alexander in Design, Entertainment
10 Famous Works of Art (with client feedback)
If you’re a designer, you’ve probably had to deal with lots of annoying client feedback throughout your career. Let’s face it, a lot of clients have no idea what good work looks like. In fact, I reckon that if the average client was presented with classics of Western art, they’d probably still try to offer up some constructive criticism. And it might look something like this...
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Yuri Arcurs on Studio Essentials

Posted Tuesday, 7 July 2009 by Sverre Bech-Sjøthun in Photography, Inspiration, Interviews
Yuri Arcurs on Studio Essentials
Second part of the guided tour in Yuri Arcurs' studio at Aarhus in Denmark deals with studio essentials - tools and things you absolutely need to have in your studio.
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