http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/ work inspired en-us Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:02:41 EST Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:02:41 EST http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html Movable Type Pro 4.33-en 60 http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2010/01/design_eye_for_the_non-design_guy_or_gal.html Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:21:31 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2010:/aquentblog//11.2256 Greg Carter Books Design http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2009/07/getting_to_yes_by_believing_you_can.html I'm reading Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman (I tend to read the hot books about five years late) so I'm thinking a lot about feelings this week.Interesting bit from the book: Martin Seligman conducted a study of MetLife salespeople. He... Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:57:38 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2009:/aquentblog//11.2116 Julie Hiipakka Aquent At work Books Career Communication Hiring talent Job Search Workplace http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2009/07/book_review_web_analytics_demystified.html I know, I know.... The word "analytics" makes people cringe. Thoughts of miles upon miles of spreadsheets filled with an almost never-ending string of numbers and equations can make even the hardiest of us cower in a corner and... Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:47:57 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2009:/aquentblog//11.2111 Greg Carter Books Web Analytics http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2009/06/from_guest_poster_greg_carterthe.html (From guest poster, Greg Carter)The night, I purchased tickets online for a theatrical event. Yeah, I know, very exciting, but why I'm bringing this up is because of the checkout process. Thanks to the email from the theater troupe, I... Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:44:09 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2009:/aquentblog//11.2068 Tim Donnelly Books Content and Content Management Design Interactive Design Tim's A Day in the Life Blog Web Design http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2009/05/book_review_the_new_influencers.html (by guest blogger, Greg Carter from the Aquent's Orange County office) I started blogging because one of my friends suggested that it would be a useful tool to keep my writing skills in shape. I hemmed and hawed, but finally... Thu, 14 May 2009 23:47:34 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2009:/aquentblog//11.2058 Tim Donnelly Blogging Books Marketing http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/06/book_designers.html Or, rather, their stock photography images are losing theirs. I guess, only on "chick-lit" novels, according to Gawker. Looks like Light Summer Reading just got lighter!... Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:00:54 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1480 Tim Donnelly Books Design Marketing Tim's A Day in the Life Blog http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/02/gentlemen_start.html Right before Spring is another, fifth season: The Season of Creative Contests.I'm not kidding (did you think I would?), AIGA and Communication Arts are opening the floodgates for contestants for their Illustration, Design, and Photography competitions.Starting with AIGA's 365 Design... Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:52:38 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1345 Tim Donnelly Art Books Career Design Marketing Tim's A Day in the Life Blog Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/11/greening_up_bla.html As green as some of us want to be, the hard fact is we're going to part with some cash for consumable gifts for others this holiday season. There's good news, though. Every year the blog Treehugger runs a... Fri, 23 Nov 2007 13:13:00 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1279 Tim Donnelly Books Charity Ecology Personal Blogging Sales Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/10/blogging_in_the.html So even though I have no idea what an intarsia pattern is, I'm blogging ahead! Chronicle Books is holding a design contest that many of you Designers out there might find interesting. They're putting the finishing touches on their latest... Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:46:51 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1258 Tim Donnelly Art Books Design Personal Blogging Television http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/08/book_club.html I love reading and yet, sadly, my work-related reading takes a back seat to my personal reading (case in point, my summer reading included Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Water for Elephants,and Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain. That... Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:46:07 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1206 Tim Donnelly Books Design Marketing Weblogs http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2006/12/a_wealth_of_inf.html Things that scare me: The LA Weekly, cable offerings in the 500+ channel range, Leatherman Knives, Russian stacking dolls, and scores by Philip Glass. In other words anything that contains a myriad of other things within it. So many things,... Fri, 01 Dec 2006 18:35:38 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2006:/butlessaboutme//7.963 Tim Donnelly Books Design Marketing Web/Tech Weblogs http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2006/11/feeling_bookish.html Let's face facts, Creatives are often hard people to buy for. For one, a lot of things they like (Apple computers, 500GB hard drives, Playstation 3s) tend to be on the expensive side. For another, many of them have... Mon, 27 Nov 2006 22:45:51 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2006:/butlessaboutme//7.958 Tim Donnelly Art Books Design Weblogs http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2006/11/typererrific.html Mon, 13 Nov 2006 21:58:35 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2006:/butlessaboutme//7.948 Tim Donnelly Books Design Training http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2006/11/in_your_design.html Seems like it's been awhile since we've talked about the Quark vs. InDesign debate. Probably because last time we did someone threw a bottle at somebody else. So on this much calmer post we'll be speaking to just those of... Mon, 06 Nov 2006 21:52:01 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2006:/butlessaboutme//7.940 Tim Donnelly Books Career Design http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2006/10/were_looking_fo.html If you've been hearing a lot about Flash lately (and hearing and hearing and hearing), that's because it is a very in demand skill these days. Anyone who thinks I'm just making up this stuff as I go along (Mom...),... Fri, 20 Oct 2006 18:07:00 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2006:/butlessaboutme//7.920 Tim Donnelly Books Career Design Games Networking Training Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2006/10/economists_say.html Fri, 13 Oct 2006 20:17:49 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2006:/butlessaboutme//7.910 Tim Donnelly Art Books Career Design Science Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2006/09/david_letterman.html Oh, the Top 10 List. My friend once asked a writer who worked on Letterman's show why #2 was always funnier than #1. The writer told him they needed a not-so-funny #1 so they could go into commercial break... Wed, 06 Sep 2006 20:44:08 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2006:/butlessaboutme//7.869 Tim Donnelly Art Books Cars Celebrities Current Affairs Design Ecology Film Food and Drink Movies Music Networking Religion Science Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2006/08/cover_me.html Back in March I was posting about book cover designer Chip Kidd, Well if you have an interest in book design (or design itself, for that matter) you should check out the blog Books Covered by Tobias written by designer... Fri, 18 Aug 2006 13:13:26 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2006:/butlessaboutme//7.850 Tim Donnelly Art Books Design Marketing http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2006/06/green_eggs_and.html Listening to my son read Green Eggs and Ham to me last night gave me an interesting idea. Instead of it being a book about trying something new, what if it was more of a book where celebrity chefs tried... Tue, 06 Jun 2006 20:22:32 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2006:/butlessaboutme//7.782 Tim Donnelly Books Celebrities Food and Drink Television http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2006/05/okay_you_can_ju.html Back when Chip Kidd started at publishing house Alfred A. Knopf, there were some pretty dreary covers in the book world. Chip and his team were probably the first Designers to bring book jackets to the next design level. Actually... Fri, 26 May 2006 18:40:00 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2006:/butlessaboutme//7.772 Tim Donnelly Art Books Design Marketing http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2006/05/the_phrase_that.html Mon, 22 May 2006 20:53:40 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2006:/butlessaboutme//7.767 Tim Donnelly Books Cars Weblogs http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2006/05/there_goes_the.html I mean, dang. How many times a week does someone send you a link that you have to look at? Imagine that times one hundred and you have the Webby Awards Winners site. Not only does it link to each... Wed, 17 May 2006 20:22:50 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2006:/butlessaboutme//7.761 Tim Donnelly Art Books Career Celebrities Design Marketing Sports Television Web/Tech Weblogs http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2005/12/aquent_super_st.html Mon, 12 Dec 2005 21:34:23 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2005:/butlessaboutme//7.591 Tim Donnelly Books Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2005/07/harry_potter_re.html The BBC News will have a reviewer picking up his copy of the new Harry Potter book and reviewing it live, via their blog! You can imagine this will be more exciting than actually reading the book itself. I mean... Wed, 13 Jul 2005 21:10:13 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2005:/butlessaboutme//7.422 Tim Donnelly Books