When I start a new design project, part of my intake process is requesting that clients complete a project request form, even if we’ve had phone conversations in advance. I’ve found that asking the client to spend some time thinking about the project and writing (or typing) down the specifics is...

There's no question in this contest buyer's win.  Buyers snap foreclosed properties left and right. That's just the reality here on the ground on foreclosed properties: if they're decent, clean, and well priced it would sell first over their competition, that is the other type ...

As long as college kids remain edgy, there will be college sex magazines. And as long as there are a few olds with no sense of mockery, they will be scandalized by them. Still! We note that Wesleyan, the most annoying liberal arts school in the US, has launched a new sex magazine called...wait for i...

The American Workman: a style born out of necessity. As the look transgresses into the fashion world some of this rough necessity is lost a replaced with sanitised styling but I say if you're going to do a look do it all out, why be satisfied with anything less than 100%? Dress like an American Work...

Hat Tip to Mod-Blog friend Nick for pointing out a very interesting commentary from the Christian Science Monitor about the Evangelical movement. The basic thesis is that "Evangelicalism" is dying and will see a collapse in terms of numbers, influence, and money in the next decade. This is blamed on...

First of all, the organisers of this year’s festival deserve credit for a great series of fixtures, with some smart and courageous decisions on artists and staging. Second, they seem to have done a good job with ticketing, with far fewer of the good seats at events going empty (and seat alloca...

ReadWriteWeb reports that Hitwise reports that Gmail visits have outpaced YouTube Visits I’m pretty sure it’s because so many early adopters are on Twitter and early adopters tend to use Gmail. And I don’t know about you but I’ve been getting 20-30 new Twitter followers a day. Each time I ge...

Vinny Warren of The Escape Pod likes what he calls "the hard sell."What is the hard sell? The hard sell is the ad that instantly makes you want what's being advertised. You'd think this would be the permanent orientation of advertising ALL THE TIME. But it isn't. People can get a bit lax in good eco...

Love Twitter, do you? Think it's all the rage? Well, let me tell you a story about Twitter that will SHOCK AND ALARM YOU. For the past month or so, your editor at large took it upon himself (with the help of trusted companion Gourmet Spud) to create the "Rick Rielly" Twitter feed. Our goal: to test ...

Here's a clip from a recent keynote in Las Vegas. I'm challenging the audience to think about the issue of maintaining brand relevance, in the era in which customers increasingly influence the perception of brands through social networking tools. The key challenge today is preventing a brand from be...