2009 March | Howard, Merrell & Partners - Fried Logic

7:17 pm on March 25, 2009 by Laura Gross

Courtney Beck Joins Public Relations Department

Courtney Beck joins Howard, Merrell & Partners as a senior writing specialist and account executive in the Public Relations Department. Beck will predominantly service the BASF Plant Science account.

Beck has spent more than six years writing bylines, articles, plans, website content, newsletter copy, etc., for companies and organizations in the agriculture, biotechnology and technology industries. She has conducted writing and communications work for Syngenta Crop Protection, Stage Rage, GE Nuclear and the NC Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. In her new role at Howard, Merrell & Partners, Beck will conduct media outreach and write technical bylines, white papers, press releases and newsletter copy.

Beck graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with two bachelor’s degrees – one in journalism and mass communication and the other in American history. She also has a master’s degree in extension education from North Carolina State University.

Courtney Beck

9:00 am on March 25, 2009 by Maximillian Hill

Flash Experiments from Grant Skinner

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Grant Skinner of gskinner.com has a nice collection of flash experiments from 2005/2006. Many of them let you interact with the site via web cam and all of them are pretty cool. And if they’re cool today, think of how cutting edge they were in 2006.

9:00 am on March 24, 2009 by Maximillian Hill

Twitter Magnets

Here’s a quick diversion from whatever you’re supposed to be doing: twitter magnets. The idea is that you make magnetic poetry on your computer and then you can post it to your (or the service’s) twitter account.

diversion Fun Twitter

1:53 pm on March 23, 2009 by Howard Merrell & Partners

Rock On

Ahh, the quest for just the right piece of original music is always a bit challenging. And original music doesn’t get any more disturbingly original than Jonathan Mann’s music. Every day, he posts a new song to his site rockcookiebottom.com. He’s up to #82 with sure to never be hits like “Penguins Having a Party,” “Zombie Rights” and “I Love Battlestar Galactica.” Check it out.

11:08 am on March 23, 2009 by Chris Gupton

Old but awesome wall-painted animation

This guy MUTO does some crazy stuff, It must have taken forever.

But the final product is amazing.

This is about 8 months old but its still very inspiring.

9:00 am on March 23, 2009 by Maximillian Hill

Working from a copy is never a good idea

At some point in the creative process someone, may it be a client, peer, or boss, will ask you to make a change to your work, And if that work is an image, you may be tempted to make that change by opening up the jpeg and making the edit ’cause it’s faster than simply opening the original file and making the change and then re-saving the jpeg (or whatever your final format is). And no matter how much time it’ll save you, here’s the lesson: don’t. Don’t ever work from a jpeg or any other compressed format. After the jump you can checkout a video that shows a jpeg that’s been opened resaved 600 times and you’ll see exactly what each save does to the image’s quality. More »

compression jpeg Tips

8:46 am on March 23, 2009 by Chris Gupton