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Working from Home…Week 1

Since moving to Florida a week ago and able to work from home I have concocted a list of likes and dislikes. Before the move, I have talked to a couple of friends that have done or currently are working from home so I kind of knew some things to

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Work in Progress

For many of us creatives, we haven’t been drafted to be a part of Dribble‘s community, there is an up and coming competitor on Behance. From the people who brought behance.net, the 99%, and actionmethod comes a new thing called work in progress. Here is a place where you can

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Social Madness

Here at Topic Design, we are involved in the Social Madness competition presented by The Cincinnati Business Courier. To add some additional interest to it, for every new follower and/or like we get in the next coming weeks we’ll donate $0.10 to Tender Mercies. To vote for us, please do so

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HTML5 Email Boilerplate

Over the past several years, I’d like to think that I have become a lot better with coding for email marketing than when I first started (naturally). Through long hours of grueling testing and trials/errors, I have picked up on a few tips and tricks along the way to design

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Style Tiles

If your web design work is coming in as often as ours is at Topic Design, then you may want to look at this. When a client comes in and wants a new website design but has no idea what they want, presenting them with some high level mood boards

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Camp’s REAL Fruit Juice

I found this little gem of an innovation while browsing LinkedIn, believe it or not. Brazilian creative agency, AGE Isobar grew fruit into actual box-shapes for that real taste. While I find the idea neat and far from ordinary, I can’t help it to be a little weirded out buying a piece and eating

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Start of a New Mobile Site

After being in talks with the client for almost a year now, design has finally commenced on the app-slash-website-slash-we-want-it-to-be-used-on-tablets-and-desktops-perfectly. Easy? Yes. Fun? Of course. Organized? Surprisingly yes. Now, if I could get an l-shaped desk, that’d be greeeaaat.

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Designer Creates Witty Signs

Phildesignart.com creates a series of posters entitled Lost Signs that, at first glance, seem like ordinary sign postings. As you get closer and really read them, they’re hilarious and very witty.  

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Dave’s 500th!

Congrats to my friend Dave on getting his 500th beer at the World of Beer in Tampa, FL. Such a big deal, in fact, t-shirts and stickers were made in honor of the party this Saturday!

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Objectified

I came across this video and post that is pretty inspiring. It talks about what makes design good, or even great. I think this is an important article for anyone to read because it breaks down the idea of design as a service and not a commodity like a bag of

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