These are the days of unfettered emotionalism, that thing that has the power to elevate itself above the laws of science, logic, and conviction. Think about it: even when faced with inarguable evidence to the contrary, most people tend to act on –and even live by– what they feel. While this can be a good […]
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Ever wonder why the Purple Heart is Purple or why Surrender Flags are White? I read this interesting article by Alison Caporimo in Reader’s Digest (printed version) October 2014. Enjoy! www.rd.com/culture/why-is-money-green/
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Not everyone sees color in the same way. Did you ever wonder what life would be like to see over 100 million colors? Tetrachromacy is a rare genetic condition that allows a person to see 100 million colors, compared to someone with normal vision who typically can see around one million colors. Tetrachromacy gives a
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Need some dinner ideas on what to serve tonight? If you’re looking for some recipes that will have your family asking for seconds, try these cast iron skillet dinner recipes. This year we wanted to share the tale of our timeless tradition with you. So cook up your favorite seasonal things. Cake, cookies and cornbread,
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It’s a busy time of year, isn’t it? Work seems to snowball now, as everyone scrambles to finish those projects and close out those budgets for year-end, and sometimes –without a breath in between– we immediately launch into the next thing for the new year. There’s black tie events, a constant stream of holiday parties,
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In this day and age of abundant stock illustration for a nickel and having to compete with the $25 all you can eat logo design its all the more reason to be original. We have been awarded a great opportunity to develop 19 original logos/mascots. The reason for the request was that so many of the
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Don’t believe everything, or maybe anything, you read on social media. In the wake of Trump’s stunning upset last week, media analysts have worked feverishly to figure out how social media may have altered the outcome of this election. From carefully targeted (attacks) to fake websites with false polling place addresses, online voter-suppression tactics wreak
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By DAN PALLOTTA The nonprofit sector has limbs. It has fingers that reach into the most neglected corners of society, forearms that lead large national chapter and affiliate organizations, legs made up of the nation’s foundations and massive individual donor base that fund it and help it to move. It has blood pumping through its
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An article that I thought was very interesting and pretty cool came from this one artist, Janis Petke, who created pictures from google earth by using Photoshop to capture her audience’s attention. She created miniature globes from the images that were posted on google earth. It almost doesn’t look real…but she took 30-40 screenshots using
One of the biggest aspects to marketing is color. Color has impacted our brains and how we associate them with different brandings. It’s pretty fascinating how an individual’s psychological cues are triggered when looking at different colors. Color is very powerful between graphic design and psychology. A lot of research has been done about how
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