Wednesday, March 29
Tuesday, March 28
Des Moines InDesign User Group
Des Moines InDesign User Group has been formed. Do you feel like a joiner?
Monday, March 27
Time to quit your job
Why do you even bother to come to work? Stay home and make over $100,000 as a Graphic Designer and you don't need any talent.
Saturday, March 25
Gannett: Newspaper or Internaet Stock? (GCI)
Brad Robertson blog linked to this interesting article on "Internet Stock Blog" from his blog
Douglas McIntyre submits: Does anyone remember Gannett (GCI)? The recent buyout and anticipated break-up of Knight-Ridder (KRI) has keep its larger counterpart out of the news. Its stock has done poorly lately along with the balance of the public companies in the newspaper business.
Gannett has some important advantages over other companies in this industry, its size and the ownership of USA Today being the most obvious. But, scratch the surface, and one of the things you find is that Gannett is one of the largest players in the internet content business.
Gannett’s online revenue grew 56% in 2005 on top of 60% in 2004. Gannett’s internet audience for its combined online properties was 21 million unique visitors in December 2005, which is almost 14% of the entire internet audience according to Nielsen/NetRatings. Gannett also owns large pieces of the online sites CareerBuilder and Classified Ventures.
For 2005, total revenue for Gannett grew just over 4% to $7.6 billion. Net income dropped 5.5% to $1.244 billion. The newspaper and television station businesses just aren’t what they used to be in large part because of the internet.
Gannett has the opportunity, content, and capital to build its online operations and enjoy some of the valuation benefits of being viewed as an internet powerhouse. Whether management will pursue this is still an open question. But, putting capital into a business that grows 50% to 60% a year seems like a prudent investment. And, maybe a path to saying goodbye to the low stock price.
Douglas McIntyre submits: Does anyone remember Gannett (GCI)? The recent buyout and anticipated break-up of Knight-Ridder (KRI) has keep its larger counterpart out of the news. Its stock has done poorly lately along with the balance of the public companies in the newspaper business.
Gannett has some important advantages over other companies in this industry, its size and the ownership of USA Today being the most obvious. But, scratch the surface, and one of the things you find is that Gannett is one of the largest players in the internet content business.
Gannett’s online revenue grew 56% in 2005 on top of 60% in 2004. Gannett’s internet audience for its combined online properties was 21 million unique visitors in December 2005, which is almost 14% of the entire internet audience according to Nielsen/NetRatings. Gannett also owns large pieces of the online sites CareerBuilder and Classified Ventures.
For 2005, total revenue for Gannett grew just over 4% to $7.6 billion. Net income dropped 5.5% to $1.244 billion. The newspaper and television station businesses just aren’t what they used to be in large part because of the internet.
Gannett has the opportunity, content, and capital to build its online operations and enjoy some of the valuation benefits of being viewed as an internet powerhouse. Whether management will pursue this is still an open question. But, putting capital into a business that grows 50% to 60% a year seems like a prudent investment. And, maybe a path to saying goodbye to the low stock price.
Friday, March 24
Des Moines - InDesign Users Group
We are pleased to announce the inaugural meeting of the Des Moines InDesign User Group. The featured speaker will be Noha Edell, InDesign Product Specialist, as she explores InDesign CS2 and reveals the fantastic new features in this groundbreaking release!
Wednesday, March 22
Newspaper Advertising Production Info
Asbury Park Press does a great job of designing a great webpage for their customers to get needed information. If you look at it, you may recognize some of the pages under the "Design" tab. This information was taken from the PDFs design by Suzanne many years ago. They are making their rounds throughout Gannett.
Tuesday, March 21
Friday, March 17
Do something different.
I discovered this really cool sight on different (and better) ways to tie your shoes. There are 16 different ways shown. This is a great example of something that we do a specific way just because its the way it always has been done. I just retied my shoes.
Monday, March 6
The Hippest City in the USA
This article from FastCompany magazine is 2.5 years old. But it’s nice to remember that Des Moines is a pretty nice place to live. Looking at the chart at the bottom helps demonstrate why I moved to Des Moines from the San Francisco area.
Wednesday, March 1
Typeface Self-Portraits
Here is the next assignment. Make a self-portrait out of type. Like these...
My suggestion is to get a picture of yourself and put it on a layer in Illustrator or InDesign, then open the insert Glyphs palette and start slapping characters on your face. Delete the background and presto!
Put a copy of the self-portrait in the "self portrait" folder in my shared folder. Don't put your name. If you did it right, we will recognize that it's you.
My suggestion is to get a picture of yourself and put it on a layer in Illustrator or InDesign, then open the insert Glyphs palette and start slapping characters on your face. Delete the background and presto!
Put a copy of the self-portrait in the "self portrait" folder in my shared folder. Don't put your name. If you did it right, we will recognize that it's you.
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