A Mouldy Day at Dean Clough

A title to keep you guessing, eh? Well, ‘Mouldy’ is fab author/illustrator Chris Mould , currently Artist in Residence at Dean Clough , a gargantuan, restored carpet mill, now a business and arts complex in Halifax. That’s Chris above, in his studio space at the mill.

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A Mouldy Day at Dean Clough

Animal alphabet

This week’s Illustration Friday prompt, “slither”, was fairly easy to whip out because I already had a bunch of animal illustrations that I had done for Science Museum Oklahoma. I did them originally for a large map installation, but then, on my own, just for fun, I thought it might be kind of fun to do a sort of ABC book featuring animals native to Oklahoma.

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Animal alphabet

Game manufacturer Ogmento raises $3.5 million in funding

Ogmento, an augmented reality (AR) video game developer, has raised $3.5 million in Series A equity financing to expand development of its AR game platform and operations in New York and Los Angeles. The company will use the funding to add to its development teams and will also expand the core features of its technology as it prepares the release of several game titles.

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Game manufacturer Ogmento raises $3.5 million in funding

Cannes fashions inspire Great Hunt

During the recent Cannes Film Festival, global online retailer LightInTheBox.com launched The Great Hunt on Facebook. The competition invited male and female participants to explore the website’s selection of evening wear to find the outfit they liked best. Participants then posted their selection on LightInTheBox.com’s Facebook Fan Page and tried to get their Facebook friends to “like” their choice

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Cannes fashions inspire Great Hunt

IFLA to hold 54th congress in Montreal

Montreal will be the site of the 54th World Congress of the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA), which will be held in 2017. IFLA is the international body representing landscape architecture professionals from 62 countries.

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Webinar to explore 3-D’s potential for retail

The Retail Customer Experience Executive Summit will present a free webinar, 3-D Signage and the Retail Experience, on Thursday, June 3 at 2 p.m.

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Color and Object Collages with Monochromatic Love

A monochromatic color palette in a large scale piece of art or inside a home can be tricky to pull off without feeling oppressive or too blah.

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Color and Object Collages with Monochromatic Love

6 clever ways to get more clients – Convince and win!

You might expect that the most grueling job for logo designers is to master the use of software programs. But believe me… learning a software is a piece of cake as compared to dealing with a client

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6 clever ways to get more clients – Convince and win!

Characteristics of Outstanding Blog Design

Deigning a theme for a blog is comparatively a newfound area of work but it is far more challenging and complicated than website design . It involves a number of complex creative issues that have to be fused together for making a long lasting impression on the readers without diverting their attention. Since blog is a platform of expression, it should not get overshadowed by unwanted graphical elements

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Rat King Info

Rat King is fictional character created by Jim Lawson for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles multimedia franchise. The character’s first appearance was in the comic “Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” #4 which were written by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. Since then, the Rat King has made various appearances in the comic books, in the animated series and video games.

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Adsense Revenue Sharing Feature in Blogger Blogs

This cool trick shows how to implement Google Adsense Revenue sharing feature in blogger(blogspot) blogs: Do you run a blogger blog which is controlled by multiple authors ? Are you looking for an idea to share revenue with your co-authors?

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Adsense Revenue Sharing Feature in Blogger Blogs

25 Examples of Amazing Packaging Design

Packaging design can make a profound difference on the sales of a product and how it is viewed by customers. In this post we’ll provide a showcase excellent package designs for your own inspiration

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25 Examples of Amazing Packaging Design

Tips for Creating a Nice Drop Down Menu Effect

Within web design there are a multitude of solutions and techniques that cover the same problem. No solution is entirely correct, and none are entirely wrong.

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Tips for Creating a Nice Drop Down Menu Effect

More photos in the gallery

Hi guys I have added another 72 photos to my gallery in the photography part spread throughout various albums. The main reason why I have found and been working on these photos is that the company Golden has been running a promotion where if you purchased 3 of their products you could make a 20 page photo book from snapfish

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More photos in the gallery

United States Marshals Service NSOTC Logo Design

The United States Marshals Service contacted Logo Design Works back in March of 2009 to help create an identity for it’s new unit NSOTC under The Sex Offender Investigations Branch. Logo Design Works created an amazing logo design for NSOTC and proud to have worked with such a distinguished organization

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United States Marshals Service NSOTC Logo Design

Web-based shoe retailer provides fashionable women’s footwear in larger sizes

In an effort to help women with larger than average feet stay up-to-date with the latest shoe trends, BarefootTess.com has created a web-based platform that provides a wide variety of designs in larger sizes. The website, which sells in women’s sizes 10 through 15, sells larger versions of high-fashion footwear at affordable prices

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Web-based shoe retailer provides fashionable women’s footwear in larger sizes

Two Ways to Transform Business

I’ve recently noticed a significant change in the way we are approaching strategic discussions with our key Retail clients in the US. Conversations are no longer focused on how Microsoft can be a better advertising, hardware or software provider, but on how we can be a better business partner . Our clients want to know how we can help them solve business problems by reducing costs, driving revenue and helping them gain market share.

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Two Ways to Transform Business

Freelance Radio, Episode 45: Recommendation Roundup

The latest episode of Freelance Radio, the official FreelanceSwitch podcast, is now available! This episode, the panel (John Brougher, Dickie Adams, Kristen Fischer and Von Glitschka) gives some of their favorite recommendations in four different categories.. Subscriptions to the podcast are available via iTunes and an archive of all podcasts will appear in the podcast section

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Freelance Radio, Episode 45: Recommendation Roundup

Online Marketing : Optimizing Embedded Video

Video Marketing is one of the fastest growing business strategy of online marketing as online video sharing sites rapidly gaining popularity with the availability of fast internet connection like broadband. The basic is, people watch the video, grow interest in the product it’s promoting and purchase it. This is why, optimizing the video is essential to get high ranking in search engines like Google, Yahoo or Bing as they show video results along with normal search results if the video is related to the keyword searched.

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The Psychology of Website Design

Psychology principals are either overlooked or are usually deemed as too complicated to get the hang of them. But if these principals can be incorporated with a website design process, it can yield great result that can even have positive impacts on visitors retention policy and a host of other similar issues.

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The Psychology of Website Design