Last week I wrote a post titled The Importance of a Consistent Brand which focused on a popular Pepsi vs Coca-Cola chart that was being circulated on the web. Brand New today cleared some misconceptions about the Coca-Cola logo, and stated that the popular chart is, in fact, inaccurate. Looking at the updated chart, there have been some changes in the Coca-Cola logo...
Continue readingTwo months from now the International Olympic Committee will announce the host city for the 2016 Summer Olympics. The four finalists - Chicago, Madrid, Rio, and Tokyo - have submitted their logo designs as visual representations of their candidacies. If you were to choose the host city solely based on its logo design, who would you pick? ...
Continue readingWhen I first debuted my site redesign, J asked, "Why do you have a pink Decepticon symbol in your header?" "What are you talking about? That's a book." Pause. "Ohh...
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Gizmodo just featured an image from the upcoming book The Visual Miscellaneum: A Colorful Guide To The World’s Most Consequential Trivia. As a lover of design, data collection, charts, and graphs, data visualization is right up my alley. I was delighted to discover that there exists a corresponding blog called Information Is Beautiful. Unfortunately, the blog is still fairly new and so only houses 13 posts - not nearly enough to quench this geek's unsatisable thirst for knowledge. However, I have no doubt that the blog will blow up very soon...
Continue readingI don't know how they do it, but Squarespace never ceases to amaze me when it comes to SEO. Before switching over in September '08, I hosted my blog on WordPress which seemed to be the de facto standard for serious bloggers. After befriending some internet marketers, I read up on numerous articles, blogs, and e-books on how to best optimize my blog for search engines - essentially, how to "trick" Google into placing my posts at the top of targeted search queries. I re-worded my titles and posts. I tried my best to utilize meta tags and keywords to my best advantage. I installed numerous SEO plugins. It wasn't all for naught. I saw some improvement in traffic; I'll grant you that. However,...
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