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Beer 2.0.1 evening at WhiteSpace

Published on June 22nd, 2007 9 appreciated comments »

David Airey graphic designer

Edinburgh’s Beer 2.0 evening was a good chance to network with like-minded designers, inside the WhiteSpace building.

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One incredibly simple step for building your social networks

Published on June 10th, 2007 30 appreciated comments »

Social networking

Social networking connects you with like-minded people across the globe. Rather than spend an age searching for contacts, but don’t forget this one very simple step to build your social networks.

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Archived under Blogs, Marketing.

How NOT to use Powerpoint

Published on May 28th, 2007 114 appreciated comments »

PowerPoint is a common computer program for some visual aids during presentations, but when was the last time you saw one that wasn’t cringeworthy?

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How you’re marketing on April Fool’s Day

Published on April 1st, 2007 10 appreciated comments »

April Fool's Day 1

A few years back, on April 1st, I was catching a flight from Belfast to Edinburgh. Me and the rest of the passengers were surprised to hear the captain announce, “We will shortly be arriving in Amsterdam.”

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How to combat anti-smoking cigarette packaging

Published on March 28th, 2007 18 appreciated comments »

Are you a smoker? Would this cigarette packaging (above) put you off smoking? I bet Marlboro are loving this government addition to their cigarette packets. Pitcure the facial expression of your date, when you calmly light up a cigarette before flipping the packet onto the table where she sits opposite. I think it’d be a [...]

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Archived under Graphics, Marketing.

Ringtone, dialtone, Pantone

Published on March 3rd, 2007 2 appreciated comments »

Pantone mobile phones

#1: What colour shall we make our new range of mobile phones?
#2: Hmmmm. Shall we use Pantone?
#1: Yes! What will we call the colour range?
#2: Hmmmm. Shall we use Pantone?
#1: Super! How will we market the new style?
#2: Hmmmm. Shall we use Pantone?

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Archived under Colour, Marketing.

Get free Google, Yahoo and MSN sponsorship

Published on February 9th, 2007 12 appreciated comments »

Free sponsored link on Google

Do you want old friends or family to be able to easily find you online? Is your name a common one that you think will never be at the top of a Google, Yahoo or MSN search? Well, here’s a quick and easy way to get yourself a FREE sponsored link at the top of all these search engines.

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Archived under Advertising, Blogs, Marketing.

BMW’s manual gear shift

Published on February 8th, 2007 13 appreciated comments »

BMW gear shift ad

Here’s a new ad from BBDP & Fils for BMW’s 7 Series.

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Archived under Advertising, Marketing, Posters.

Look inside the Googleplex

Published on February 8th, 2007 6 appreciated comments »

With work becoming more and more time constrained, in today’s 24/7 flat-world environment, can you say you’re happy with your current working conditions? Well, when you put things into perspective it’s very hard to argue against what you have. However, I know that some of us like a good argument (I mean debate) so take [...]

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bla.st – the free card directory

Published on January 26th, 2007 11 appreciated comments »

bla.st screenshot

I’m not one to advertise a third party unless I think it’s a valuable service for you, so this is one worth a look in my opinion. bla.st is an online business card gallery to promote your business.

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Archived under Marketing, Stationery.