Interview with August First Bakery, Burlington, VT Here in Burlington, Vermont, we are blessed with a nice variety of really REALLY good restaurants, coffee shops, bakeries and bars. There’s something for everyone in the greater downtown area and beyond. Earlier this summer, local social media users heard rumblings of a new café opening on the [...]
Twitter Geo-location and Destination Marketing
Twitter is about to reveal a Geolocation service to their mobile device Apps. According to FastCompany: ”The ability to pinpoint your location will happen automatically within the Tweet’s code.” The App has an ‘opt-in’ feature, which is a good thing if you want to remain under a cloak of Twitter-invisibility – potentially bad thing is you [...]
Ad campaign inspired by a Tweet
ARE YOU READY FOR SOME AWESOME? A slew of print ads is about to hit the Seattle area, in a variety of visitor guides and hotel area to-do magazines. Through a mutual acquaintance, the über unique Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum & Hall of Fame was referred to me for some ideas on [...]
Freelancing Year One: what I've learned
Today marks my one-year anniversary of becoming a full-time freelance designer. I’ve done web and graphic design work on the side for years, but in December 2008 I decided to take a flying leap out the window and quit my full-time design job. After much planning and preparing, I felt I was ready to take [...]
Is your website mobile-friendly?
Let’s say you are visiting an unfamiliar city, looking for a local wine bar, or are thinking of cramming one more site into your traveling itinerary. You’re standing at the airport tourist kiosk, or a Visitor Center or big attraction. Before you is a daunting rack of brochures, maps, coupons and mini-mags hawking the [...]
