by Daniele Rossi | Aug 29, 2009 | blog, social media
I always enjoy reading people’s big picture approach to social media. Always reading how sexy the latest tool is and my new pet peeve phrase, “join the conversation”, gets tiring and will one day make social media eat itself if PR newbies social...
by Daniele Rossi | Aug 24, 2009 | blog, comics, illustration, social media
I just stumbled upon this beautiful, minimalistically designed website, Dear Mr. Watterson. As a huge fan of the Calvin & Hobbes comics, I am really excited to see such an initiative. It’s a movie about the influence the strip had on fans around the world....
by Daniele Rossi | Jul 26, 2009 | blog, news, social media
Using courier font. Curiosity got the best of me after reading a few posts on design blogs about Times New Roman actually being a nice font to use. I agreed. And then thought if the same could be true to Courier. Yes, I know. I know. But hear me out. There’s an...
by Daniele Rossi | Jul 17, 2009 | blog, social media
My friend Jay Moonah wrote a manifesto for changethis.com called Trusting Google and Yahoo. It’s a call for critical thinking when using search engines. Since search results “seem to appear like magic, many of us tend to think of search results as being unbiased”. Jay...
by Daniele Rossi | Jul 8, 2009 | blog, social media
Heat wave season will kick in soon bringing demand for electricity higher than the sky. Once again we’ll be constantly on the verge of an outage and being asked to reduce our consumption. This won’t be a preachy green post. Just a friendly reminder. As social...
by Daniele Rossi | Jul 5, 2009 | blog, creativity, illustration
I came across this post on design thinking using post-it notes on a whiteboard instead of sketching on paper. The gist of it is the advantage of being able to move post-it notes from one area of the white board to another. Whereas sketching on paper requires a lot of...
