How Macintosh Changed My Life
In the 80’s, when I was the exhibit designer for the Ringling Museum of Art, in Sarasota, FL., I fulfilled all the creative needs for exhibits and museum events. I not only designed and helped...
View ArticleOlive Garden's New Logo
My two cents... After reading the company's Brand Renaissance PDF, I realize the massive undertaking that they are getting ready to do. If the logo was going to live on the present buildings' exteriors...
View ArticleWorking With Graphic Designers
I came across this article at the Huffington Post (Click below to read) on working with graphic designers. And I thought it would be really nice to share it. It has some good tips. But, there are still...
View ArticleWorking in Partnership With Your Graphic Designer
I found the following quote in an article Mike Dunkan for the Wilmington Biz. It got me thinking and inspired me to write about the importantce of having good communication with your graphic designer...
View ArticleTips for a good presentation
If there is a huge pet peeve of mine, it is Powerpoint or Keynote presentations. Back in 1993, I worked for a company in Huntsville, Alabama that did a lot of support work for Strategic Defense, such...
View ArticleBetsy Arvelo- Buzbee Posters
In 1982 I moved to Altos de Chavon, a then artist village in the south east coast of the Dominican Republic. The village was built in the image of a 16th century European village and was a hook by Gulf...
View ArticleCoding for sites just got a lot harder!
When I first started "designing" Websites back in 1994 no one could have convinced me that the future of the Web would look like it does today. We went from a gray background with black text on it to...
View ArticleViruses, Viruses, Oh My!
A few years ago I would tell my clients it was very important to keep their sites up to date for SEO reasons. If a site didn't get updated on a regular basis, the search engines would stop indexing it...
View ArticleThe Decline Logo Design
This is a interesting article published in LinkedIn (link below). As a seasoned designer of 30+ years in the business, just a few years ago, these companies would have hired one of the major...
View ArticleLess is More or The Art of Simplicity
Simplicity is one of the hardest things to achieve. If you do a search for simplicity, you will find hundreds, if not thousands, of quotes from famous people who were known for their sophistication –...
View ArticleFonts - Categories and uses
Fonts are the most important visual tool in design. They are the perfect shoes for the outfit. Use the wrong shoes and you kill the look. The strongest sign that you are new to fonts is you want to use...
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