Midtown Blog
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Jun 10
How to prevent being the next BP
It was about 11 p.m. and everyone in the house was asleep. A typical Midwest thunderstorm was approaching. Suddenly a bolt of lighting and thunder simultaneously hit the house. The electricity went out and the fire alarms immediately started blaring. [...]
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Jun 9
Design Trends 2010 (an Outsider’s Perspective)
Over the past several years, I’ve hired many graphic designers and have had to spend a lot of time providing feedback on design projects. While I usually come into a project with a basic aesthetic in mind to relay to [...]
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Jun 2
Innovation vs. Action
In many industries today, ingenuity is a trait prized above almost all else. A company’s ability to stay ahead of the curve often determines it’s ultimate success or failure. But in his new book “Making Ideas Happen”, Scott Belskey posits [...]
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May 27
New Pantone Delivers a Modern Approach to Color
As Pantone revamped its PMS system, including new colors (more on this later), it took a long look at how the world today sees and uses color. What does this mean for you? Well Pantone studied the impact of the [...]
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May 26
Privacy and the Digital Workplace
As I wrote about several weeks ago and as you’ve probably no doubt seen if you’ve picked up a newspaper (or and iPad to read your newspaper online) lately, the world of social networking has rapidly become one of the [...]