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POSTED BY: DAN O'SABEN ON 1/1/2009
When you work in such a creative industry, it is inevitable you will come across a co-worker that takes his/her talents to a related field. And so it is with Tyler Stallings, a talented designer that I have been fortunate enough to work with at Hughes. Tyler left Hughes, devoted more time to teaching, got married, had a beautiful daughter, and a few months ago started her own company: Periwinklebloom. From the website:
Periwinklebloom is about simple, inspired and kind living. It is about making art using natural things; organic cotton fibers, vegetable-based ink, clean energy and hand-crafting. It is about nurturing the idea of life recycled through thoughtful and fresh design. Periwinklebloom offers lovely little hand-me-downs and letterpress greetings. Simply, it's about touch, through correspondence, texture and conscience.  
Wonderful organic pieces for little girls and boys are pictured here, from the fall/winter collection. Photography is from Greg Rannells, another talent that we have had the pleasure of working with in the past as well as the future, I would hope. Tyler has clothing for sale at boutiques such as University City's City Sprouts, online at Poppytalk and Twig, and I'm sure at other places that I have overlooked. And don't forget to check out her blog (seems like everyone has one these days, don't you think?) where Tyler shares thoughts on living an unhurried life and also highlights other like-minded creators.
I wish her much success as she takes her creativity where her muse calls. Now where's the spring collection? Already I look forward to longer, warmer days, and a spring collection would mean that warm weather draws closer.
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POSTED BY: DAN O'SABEN ON 12/21/2008
 Are you familiar with boston.com's photo journalism blog The Big Picture? I recently stumbled across it and enjoyed the three parts of the Year In Pictures. One of my favorite parts of putting a year to bed is looking back. And the images in this blog, from part 1, part 2, and part 3, are all superlative. Here's what the photo editor has to say about these collections:
2008 has been an eventful year to say the least - it is difficult to sum up the thousands of stories in just a handful of photographs. That said, I will try to do what I've done with other photo narratives here, and tell a story of 2008 in photographs. It's not the story of 2008, it's certainly not all stories, but as a collection it does show a good portion of what life has been like over the past 12 months. This is a multi-entry story, 120 photographs over three days.Please note that some images are considered graphic, and they are left black leaving you the viewer to decide whether of not you would like to click through to view them. Have a great '09, folks.
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POSTED BY: ERIC KARLOVIC ON 10/16/2008
Just a shameless plug for something that we at Hughes believe in immensely, not to mention the fantastic website we developed, www.strengthandcompassion.com. Strength and Compassion brings together the best of Eric Greitens' award-winning international humanitarian photography work with a striking series of essays. Engaging photographs from Rwanda, Cambodia, Albania, Mexico, India, the Gaza Strip, Croatia, and Bolivia, are combined with bold, intelligent essays on Strength, Pity, Dignity, Courage, Faith, Time, Hope, and Compassion. Though the photographs for this book were taken in different countries and amid different struggles, a common theme emerges: even in times of great hardship and in the face of great evil, people with strength and compassion can live with courage. We see the unmistakable, sometimes irreparable consequences of violence and war, yet also see the unmistakable, always inspiring power of men, women, and children who live through these trials with dignity and emerge with hope. Ideas and images come together to touch the reader directly. Holocaust Survivor Nesse Godin says of Strength and Compassion, "Eric Greitens' photographs and essays help us all to see that, even in the most difficult circumstances, we can act with kindness. We can make a difference...I love Eric's book because it helps us to remember, but more importantly it teaches us how to act." Strength and Compassion is both brutal and beautiful. We emerge from it wiser, connected to our compassion and prepared to live with courage. Foreword by Paul Rusesabagina, the manager of the Hotel Mille Collines during the genocide in Rwanda in 1994. Paul Rusesabagina was the inspiration for the film, Hotel Rwanda, and is the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his work that saved the lives of 1,268 people during the Genocide. Introduction by Bobby Muller, a Vietnam veteran who is President of Veterans For America. Bobby Muller co-founded the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997. To order a copy, please visit www.strengthandcompassion.com.
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POSTED BY: ERIC KARLOVIC ON 10/7/2008
You can't pick up any industry pub without reading how companies will scale back spending on advertising and communications during the current economic crises. As marketers, our responsibility is to ensure that we are good stewards to our client's budgets. But that doesn't mean we alter our strategy during a bad economy. It really means that we should do things the right way...something we should be doing regardless of the state of the economy.
One of the worst approaches to marketing during a downturn in the economy is to take a broad budget cut to something that can generate sales and increase market share. Instead, we need to become aggressive, in all facets of communications. This means additional attention to strategy, intelligence and metrics.
We can't afford to find the old adage that "50% of my marketing dollars are wasted, I just don't know which 50%" as acceptable. With the amount of information that we have at our disposal, we should be able to build predictive models that will ensure the greatest probability of success for any marketing effort.
So, for our sake and that of our client's, we should commit to making metrics a part of everything we do. Understanding that through knowledge, we can make a difference in our client's business regardless of the economic state.
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POSTED BY: DAN O'SABEN ON 10/1/2008
One of the great things about the web is that there is inspiration all around you, especially if you know where to look. One source that I turn to is Ffffound, which is basically a blog/aggregator populated with images, and only images. From antique posters to photography to illustrations, this site gathers them up and seems to be constantly updated. I have never gone there and seen the same image featured twice.
The above image is from http://tebe-interesno.livejournal.com/. It seems to be a Russian artists web site, from what I can tell, and is only one of many images on the site. How could one have found this image before this wonderful gift on internet connectivity? Go to Ffffound. I bet you'll find something there that charges you up.
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