Barton Richardson

Don’t believe everything you read on Facebook

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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Turns Out Tintin Creator Hergé is Pretty Great at Graphic Design, Too

By MADELEINE MORLEY The Adventures of Tintin made Hergé’s name as a cartoonist, but a new retrospective at the Grand Palais in Paris reveals the artist’s lesser-known graphic design work. Georges Remi–AKA Hergé–opened his design studio l’Atelier Hergé-Publicité in 1930, applying aspects of his instantly recognizable Clear Line technique to posters, magazines, book covers, and

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What the Nonprofit Sector Needs to Reach It’s Full Potential

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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Congratulations Abbie!

A longtime client of R Squared, Abbie S. Fink, was presented the Patrick Jackson Award for distinguished Service of HMA Public Relations by The Public Relations Society of America. This award recognizes a PRSA member who has expressed their contributions to furthering the society of PRSA by motivating fellow practitioners professionally and personally. For 30

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Little Planets

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

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