David Airey, graphic designer

What RSS are you?

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According to Tom at NothingVentured.org I have a big and beautiful RSS icon. Shucks. How about you?

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Creative advertising

I thought I’d piece together some clever advertising from around the world, to get the creative juices flowing.
Here’s a few for starters.

Shimmy on over to the Advertising / Design Goodness blog for some interesting others, courtesy of Frederik Samuel.
If anyone know of the agencies responsible for the ads above please do let me know or [...]

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Helvetica, Arial, Univers?

Flowing mainly around the distinctions between Arial and Helvetica, there’s an excellent typography discussion happening over at Noisy Decent Graphics. The comments, particularly these ones from Bruno Magg add value to the procedings.
On the side, if you’ve ever wondered what “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” is, it’s a pangram that has [...]

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bla.st – the free card directory

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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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How can I increase blog readers?

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Do you find it sad when you come across a blog full of extremely relevant info, only to find that there are no comments in sight? There appears to be no site activity except for that of the frantic article poster, thinking that the key to ‘getting their message out there’ is to post as often as possible. This isn’t to say that no-one visits. In fact the majority of your readers (90% according to this study) are lurkers i.e. read or observe but don’t contribute.

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