Happy New Year everyone! With the new year, Snoack Studios is implementing some big changes. We’re excited to announce we’re implementing a new business model.
We’re blogging about it today not only to announce the changes and get you excited about it, but also to let you know we want you to hold us accountable. We’re making some promises today that we hope you’ll find interesting and valuable for you and your business as move forward and up with you! Read on to find out what we have in store for 2011.
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Today is Blog Action Day 2010, a day to unite bloggers worldwide and focus the conversation on one topic. This year the topic of conversation is water and how too many people worldwide do not have access to clean, safe drinking water.
Blog Action Day started in 2007 and has continued growing each year to include more and more bloggers that are in hundreds of different countries and blog about many many different topics. We are proud to participate for our 3rd year, and hope that we can help bring more light on this topic with our post today.
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An article I wrote for Six Revisions came out today:
As business owners, freelancers, and working professionals, many of us are in contact with clients on a daily basis – and unfortunately, difficult situations between us do come up every so often.
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Finding the perfect image is a constant struggle for print and web designers and a necessary evil of designing professionally. Sometimes you can’t seem to find that perfect image you have in your head, the one that would make your design really pop. Mariano Pastor, a photographer in New York decided to offer an alternative to pricy photoshoots and stock photography. His story is included in the press release below. read more
In today’s world we are bombarded with so many distractions that only perpetuate procrastination during working hours: cell phones, social media, friends and family, etc. But as working professionals we need to be aware of these distractions and fight them in order to get work done efficiently and productively. Check out my post on Smashing Share with helpful tips to help you fight those procrastination-prone tendencies.
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Big news. My new company, snoack studios, has officially launched!
snoack studios is a design studio with a passion for design and a desire to create work that clients will love. Take a look at our portfolio to see some of the work we are most proud of or stop by our blog for some design talk, creative insight, and snoack studios news.
What do we offer, you ask? Check out our services for a full list but here are some of the great things we’ll be offering:
- Stunning websites, complete with content management systems, flash banners, photo galleries, and all the goodies you could want.
- Compelling print design, including anything your company could need: postcards, advertisements, t-shirts, etc.
- Branding that works, we’ll work with you to fine-tune a brand that will make your business shine.
A few notes for those that subscribe to my snsdesigner blog. First of all, thank you for following my blog! I will still be blogging about the same cool stuff, but over at the brand spanking new snoack studios blog. If you choose to follow along with me again (and we’d love to have you!) you’ll want to unsubscribe from the snsdesigner feed and then re-subscribe here if you have a feed manager and here if you just want an email when I post.
Spread the word and tell your friends, family, colleagues, and anyone else, I’d love to give you a quote or talk with you about your next project. Check it all out at http://www.snoackstudios.com.
As some of you may or may not know, you can subscribe to my blog, and many others by rss feed. I have a link over in the sidebar where you can subscribe in your reader program, like Google offers, or by email. Many people don’t utilize the beauty and power of an rss reader, probably because they don’t know what they are missing!
I only started subscribing to blogs about a year ago, and before that, I had no idea what that even meant. It started when I discovered that Betty Crocker offered a way to receive daily recipes, in your email (and I was already getting too much email) or by rss feed. So I signed up for the rss feed through my Google Reader. Now I subscribe to 23 blogs, some personal, and some cooking ones, but mostly design ones that keep me up to date with great sites and designs, new business cards and packaging, cool tips and tricks for coding, and more. As I’ve mentioned many times, I LOVE learning! These blogs come to me, I don’t have to hunt around for them. They allow me to learn something new daily which is invaluable, and these are free!
Subscribing through rss feeds is kind of like subscribing to a newsletter, but only receiving the articles that interest you most. Check it out, I guarantee you won’t go back, and you’ll love it as much as I do!
Not only is it a clever and unique title, but it’s a great funny type site. Check it out! http://type.salsen.com/index.php
One of my favorites: “Yo momma’s so skinny the kids call her Stick Ultra Light Condensed.”
Classic.
Some of the best sites out there are non-profit sites, and poverty awareness sites are no different! Great design shows a commitment to quality and attention to details, and gives its users a sense of value. Some people notice the quality of the visuals used and the fact that they take pride in their brand, while others just perceive it, they feel good about donating and using their site BECAUSE of the quality of the design. Here are some great sites that are working to fight poverty and decrease hunger in the world.
http://www.endpoverty.org
http://www.makepovertyhistory.org/
http://www.bread.org/
http://www.care.org/
http://www.feedingamerica.org/
http://www.fh.org/
http://www.mazon.org/
http://www.oxfamamerica.org/
http://www.strength.org/
http://www.one.org/
