Who are these guys?

iMedia Connection? I've never heard of them before, yet they've appeared in several of the last serious Google searches: Podcasting 101, wireless network causes outlook crash...

Each time I find a well written article, with wit and a bit of irreverence. So I visit the home page and discover it's a marketing site geared towards creative types.

Now, imedia connection is an uncreative name, but there aren;t many good URLs left to buy out there, so that's forgiveable. The site is also built with tables and classic asp, which puts them a bit in the stone age from a development perspective. I'm sure there are smart folks working on the next version right now.

You should check them out sometime.

Interesting UK Designers Blog...

" ... Talking of Design ... "

all genres

"Welcome. This here is a place where myself and others can gather and type words that hopefully form coherent sentences of some worth (or not) ..."

Kev Adamson is in his own words "an award winning freelance Web Designer, Graphic Designer, Animator and Illustrator living in the UK ..." whom my friend Bea found and sent me the link to his blog.

I found his blog interesting, well designed and relative in topic to ours soooo I thought you guys might like to check it out!

http://www.kevadamson.com/talking-of-design/

enjoy : )

-amber-

How I Became a Designer

On this blog, we talk about how Design can do many things -- improve business, communicate with the masses, or entertain us -- but one thing we haven't discussed lately is the more personal side. Design can build lives just as it builds businesses. I've watched many around me struggle to survive in jobs they hate, while I get paid a semi-comfortable salary to do something I enjoy and truly believe in. I've also found Design is a great way to give back to the community, too.

This started as a conversation between Amber and I at the latest AIGA Jacksonville Cocktails & Creatives, and others got dragged in as they passed by (Jessi, Russel, Ron and a few others). I've started this post in the hope they and others would type up their stories, too.

Interaction Design: An Introduction

Reading this article, I felt my brain explode and my heart leap the same way they did when I first discovered there was such a profession as graphic design, or when I attended the 1997 AIGA conference in New Orleans and saw giants in the industry give a presentation on large-scale environmental graphics. Here is a one more part of life to design, one more way to help people and businesses, and it is exciting and vast.

Of course, just as the expert says in the article, graphic designers have always done many things that fit into Interaction Design. But there's so much more -- brand is to logo what interaction design is to graphic design -- it encompasses and connects.

read the article