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New Ways to Sell the Same Thing

This company has such a great idea. They’re selling their normal product olive oil, but selling it as an “adopt a tree” plan. You pre-purchase a year’s worth of olive oil, under the adoption plan. Of course it’s really just a way to get you to commit to more product, and a longer relationship by […]

Aug
15

Trending Down.

This article in the WSJ is about the diminishing number of advertisers in major printed publications. Specifically this article is about fashion mags, but we’d bet the trend runs pretty true across the board. Which ones of these reasons make the most sense to you? The pending/current recession. The erosion of print media due to […]

Aug
13

Show Your Potential Employer How Great You Are.

We get lots of applications to work at Entermotion. One thing is true of all of the applications we pay attention to: They show real work. It’s amazing how many applications we get from people wanting to work in a visual field that don’t show anything visual. Even for non-designer positions, it’s critical to demonstrate […]

Aug
01

Glimpses of Genius Novelty, and Beauty – Funny

“How designers think” – More of them should Handwriting of typographers – The worse the better Seriously, don’t miss this one – Conan O’Brien’s commencement Speech We miss Macromedia – Adobe crashes Entermotion is here – To make friends We look at the label – Picking out wine Lego – Meets famous architecture Ahhh Adobe […]

Jul
09

Why Logos Are Hard To Design

Walmart is getting to launch a newly redesigned logo. The type is not bad… Better than you would expect. But what seems to be drawing the most criticism is the giant yellow icon next to the type. It basically amounts to an asterisk, but people are seeing all sorts of things: Sun Star Sphincter M […]

Jul
01

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