Back in the day 1
Posted by Ken Davidson in Comment, Illustration on 23. Jul, 2008 | No Comments
Does anyone remember when marketing budgets allowed for decent photography and illustration? Go back far enough and we’ll find that restrictive or low-quality print processes demanded that illustrations be used, rather than photography. In this halcyon era the general illustrator was king; often deemed to be of equal professional standing to the architect. In a [...]
Pictures of convenience
Posted by Ken Davidson in Comment on 04. Sep, 2007 | No Comments
Those of you with a less than technical bent might want to skip this piece… Recently, Dr Ariel Shamir showed off a new technique for resizing pictures intelligently according to content. To understand the implications of this let us take the example of a webpage layout that flows according to window size: while the text [...]
Bring back sexism?
Posted by Ken Davidson in Comment on 23. Aug, 2007 | No Comments
Presented here for your delectation are a range of advertisements that I spotted while thumbing through some old motoring magazines from the 1960s. These caught my eye as not only being great examples of the style of the time, but also as containing quite scandalous content by current standards… Here we see a pre-Bond George [...]
Creativity is best left to the experts?
Posted by Ken Davidson in Comment on 27. Jul, 2007 | No Comments
According to an entry in today’s FreelanceUK, “…creativity is best left to the experts – namely self-employed designers”. Which is nice. Certainly made me feel warm. However, the thrust of the piece is to explain how creative businesses could do better by being shrewder in business. It’s no surprise to see that what may be [...]
Marketing spend for 2007 set to be the biggest since 2000, apparently.
Posted by Ken Davidson in Comment on 20. Apr, 2007 | No Comments
Well, according to the Bellwether Report, more than half of companies are busy upping their marketing spend for this year, over and above the spend of 2006. Let’s be honest – marketing budgets have been in the doldrums for over five years now, so it wouldn’t take much to be able to report this happy [...]
