Archive for February, 2009

How to deal with clients’ embedded images in Word documents

Every designer who has ever worked with a client knows how absolutely frustrating it is to receive a client’s logo or photo embedded into Microsoft Word. It’s the worst.
While I was writing a paper for my Information Design class, I accidentally clicked on an image I had placed in the document and saw a Save [...]

Saturday, February 28th, 2009

How to Generate the Ultimate Genius Playlist in iTunes

Let me declare that I have been a huge fan of iTunes’ Genius playlist from almost day one. For those of you who are not aware, the Genius playlist will generate a list of songs from your library based on your one selection from your library. It gathers your songs’ meta data, uploads it to [...]

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

LarsonO’Brien’s Interactive Department – Workin’ Hard. Playin’ Hard. by Brad Czapor

Something’s stirring inside the office walls of LarsonO’Brien. Something much more exhilarating than any web development, press release, business call, or email exchange. Each day, rather than taking a lunch break to actually eat, team “Sonic and Knuckles” (Jeff Miskis and Jesse Wisinski) starve themselves to square off with the equally ravenous “‘09 B!π¢¶es” (Mark [...]

Thursday, February 5th, 2009