One of the toughest challenges we face is working with start-ups. Seasoned clients usually know what their USP (unique selling proposition) is – you know, their bread and butter. They’ve been in the trenches and have developed and nurtured a toolbox to serve their clients and they know the problems they are attempting to solve better than their competition.
But start-ups usually don’t have that experience – they bring in a lot of passion but many times only a hammer and, as the saying goes, when the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. This presents the greatest challenge continue reading »
Reviewing a client’s blog today and came across a link to a font chooser using Adobe Air technology. We are a bit new to evaluating Air but it basically is part of a growing trend to create desktop applications (downloaded and accessed right from your desktop instead of using a browser) that access web applications.
As a design firm, we of course are loaded with thousands of fonts. Typefacing is a bigger deal than ever in a Web 2.0 world in which many logos are just creative, simple typography. The link I found was to an Adobe Air application to quickly and visually see a particular text in all fonts and create a list of usable fonts.
This particular app is still too basic for our needs – we would want to create lists (font-families/types/styles) and create a saveable list as we narrow the options on a particular design. Would also be great to manage fonts – actively run fonts on the fly so only a 100 or so fonts are ever actively installed at once (fonts can be a big system drain), but it’s still an interesting look at Air and this new trend.
http://www.richardsprojects.co.uk/products/font-picker/
We’ve been checking the facebook blog for the expected update on when they were opening up the famed username/custom url to fan pages with less than 1000 users.
No such blog post arrived, however, today we tried it for kicks and, lo and behold, it appears magically that if you now have more than 100 fans you may begin registering your fan page with a unique, custom username/url.
If you previously sent your username priority list then rest assured that we have already begun securing your username.
Thanks for the notice/warning facebook! :)
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