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A bit of a learning experience today.

As graphic design students, we submitted designs for a logo for a local organization. However, they didn’t really know what they were looking for, so needed us to lead, which we didn’t. So a fairly broad and open brief.

They’ve narrowed it down to three, but again, not knowing what they really want, we presented a variety of colour, typography and layout versions of those three. Now it’s up to them to choose one logo and hopefully a colour and the typography.

The lesson learned though is we should have led more assertively and gotten them at an earlier stage to define a definite colour palette, and a definite typography style. Thus, today the three of us could have presented one logo each, making their choice much easier.

Experienced designers have that confidence to lead the client when they, the client, aren’t sure themselves. But we’ll get there.

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You know, part of me still hesitates to recommend a Mac simply because so many websites are still developed by narrow-minded MS-bots who make their sites IE only.
It seems to be a problem more for Apple’s Safari than Firefox, so at least we can use FF to get around a few more. But there’s still […]

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After much resistance, finally upgraded my Mac’s RAM from 1GB to 3GB. The difference is amazing.
I needed it because I run Windows (in Parallels), Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Safari and Firefox all at the same time. Plus a few others like Mail and Pastor. Not surprisingly that was killing my machine.
Now it flies! Well, it’s not […]

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Valleywag’s Rumormonger has rumored MacBook Air could have AT&T wireless access built-in. Not an original idea with respondents on that column have pointing out Windows PCs have had that facility for a few years.
But what if Apple cut a deal with AT&T so iPhone users could share their data component of their iPhone plans with […]

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There’s been silly talk around the place that Apple’s new iMovie, which has a revolutionary new editing interface but is missing many important features of its predecessor, is in fact a sneaky plot by Apple to force people who want to make movies on Macs to buy Final Cut Express.This is nonsense.

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Lately with the resurgence of the Mac, sites are springing up, and articles are being written on switching. To make life easier for switchers, I am going to collate them on this page as I come across them.

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Fascinating how Visicalc, the first spreadsheet was a killer app. Lotus 123 was a killer app, Excel again was a killer app (albeit helped by being part of MS Office suite).Now we find ourselves in 2007 and Apple has revolutionized spreadsheets with its new Numbers application, part of its iWork productivity suite, that includes Keynote for presentations, and PAges for word processing and desktop publishing.

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Peter Wright, an accomplished author who has been writing about Microsoft technologies since Visual Basic 3 (including some best selling Visual Basic books), recently decided to drop Microsoft completely and switch to Macintosh and Ruby on Rails. In this blog posts he details the circumstances that led to his decision.
This is one of the best […]

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One user gives a nice run down of the value of using a Mac for making music.
“After years of putting it off, I finally succumbed to the world of Apple and bought myself a new MacBook. Two months after buying it I feel it is time to give my fellow musicians the heads up on […]

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AppleTalk.com.au score a scoop in getting an interview with Jesus Lopez (Otherwise known as blanka) who was part of the 2 man team that successfully got Windows XP to install and run on an Intel Mac.
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