SlideComet released this fantastic slideshare about some design techniques for memorable presentations. I personally love Prezi, but for the times when you need a Powerpoint quick – it’s great to have a mini-Jobs, Lessig, Godin, Kawasaki, and Takahashi guiding you… Read more ›
As libraries begin to plan a space redesign many *usually* have a tiny budget and lots of old books they just got done painfully weeding. So why not put those books to good use?! The “A Media Specialist’s Guide to… Read more ›
The latest and greatest Library blogger in my bookmarks tab is Susan Brown’s blog <http://658point8.com/> Practical Marketing for Public Libraries. Though I work for Academics, Public Libraries have a vast amount of marketing knowledge to pull from. Check out her… Read more ›
Start. That’s it. Just sit down (or stand, whatever floats your boat) and start. Expect it to be bad – really bad. In fact, expect to burn the first draft so there is no evidence that you ever created something… Read more ›
Can’t get enough of kinetic typography! Great use by the Craighead County Jonesboro Public Library – interesting, fast, mission driven ad.
Libraries and Mayo = same thing Okay, so it’s a stretch but Ned Potter describes how marketing libraries is very similar to marketing other products completely unrelated to libraries and why you have Hellman’s in your fridge. A short but… Read more ›
Fantastic article on how to balance aesthetic changes with functional changes when you the only one championing for seemingly minute visual adjustments. Try swapping out the word, “product” with the words “Discovery Layer” or “Library Website” and see if it resonates with… Read more ›
I stumbled upon this website while reading Aaron Schmidt’s blog, Walkingpaper.org. April Aultman Becker and Veronica Arellano Douglas created the website as a resource and idea-sharing area for design materials. Basically, librarians and designers from all over design cool stuff and submit it to the… Read more ›
I recently got back from vacation (it was lovely, thanks for asking) and had the pure enjoyment of running through many airports. Airports are some of the most complex networks where things go wrong (delays, cancellations, overbooking, etc) every single… Read more ›
Twitter released an app called, “Vine” in the past month as a foot in the door for social video sharing. You get 6-seconds (because our attention spans can’t stand much more) to relay a primitive looking message to your Twitter… Read more ›
