Ottawa
Retro Film Effects
As you have probably seen, I love retro and vintage photography (actually, I love anything retro/vintage). I get my inspiration from other people who are adding the same effects to their photos. Here are just a few examples of what my Flickr friends are up to.
MediaTrust Secret Santa
I work for an online advertising company called MediaTrust. This year we decided to play Secret Santa. We also had a Pot Luck lunch . It was a huge success! Everybody brought amazing gifts and the food tasted fantastic.
Eyes Wide Shut
I’ve noticed a lot of my friends on Flickr are doing portraits and self portraits with the subject’s eyes closed. I don’t know why it is, but it makes pictures appear very mysterious.
Retro Vintage Minimalist Book Covers
I just love these old school book covers from Pelican Books!
Ghostly Photography
Annette Pehrsson from Sweeden
www.annettepehrsson.se
thehymnforthecigarettes.blogspot.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/popsongs/
Marketing and Design
I’ve been writing a post a month for my company’s blog. If you’re interested in Online Advertising and Marketing, check them out!
-Sanders
Tips For Email Creative Design
…set your width to about 500-600 pixels. Most recipients will be looking at your email through their “preview pane” which is usually a small portion of their available screen. One of the most popular email clients is Microsoft Office’s Outlook. It’s preview pane is adjustable, but usually defaults to somewhere in between 400 and 500 pixels wide!…
…for the most part, banner design is easy. It’s just when you have to create all the different sizes… that’s where you run into problems! I like designing the 300×250 size first. I find it’s the easiest to start with. It’s like you’re designing a mini-email because the shape is similar. However, I run into problems when I try to re-size the 300×250 into a skyscraper (120×600 or 160×600). Once you take all the elements and cram them into the astonishingly small horizontal space, you can barely read your text and you may have too much vertical space than you need…
…It’s amazing – I still see people resorting to the old methods of building websites. People are still using the Table tag for layout. This method is ancient! The technology has changed enormously since then. Tables are for… DATA! Tables, usually are not meant for holding pictures in place. There is a better way to control the layout of your site. The Div tag (div is short for division) was created for this purpose. Take advantage of the DIV tag. It makes the code for you website less confusing and allows you to easily make changes to your site…
Design Roundup: Optimization Tools for Designers
…these days, you can’t just throw up a website or launch a campaign and just assume it’s going to perform well. As designers we need to know what makes a design successful. Today there are many paid and free tools that we can take advantage to figure out what we’re doing right and wrong. These tools can help us identify and correct problems. Here is a brief overview of five tools I think every website designer (or anybody in the online marketing industry) should know about…
…don’t waste time and money retro-fitting your website. Make sure you design your site with the latest technologies that support analytics. For example, if your website is a Wordpress blog, upgrade to the current version so you can take advantage of widgets and plugins. There is a free widget for Google Analytics! Awesome! Personally, I try to avoid designing Flash sites because setting up analytics on them is too complicated. You can use flash elements in your site, but an entire Flash site is bad for web analytics…
Finland
Just having some fun with old photos and textures. It would be cool to visit Finland.
