design

Marketing Motivation

eric — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:20:56 -0600

We've been extremely blessed to have received so much work from word of mouth the past six years, but I've noticed I need to be doing more work on the marketing front to get the type of projects I'm interested in.

I've been working on some new things for my company website. This will include more graphics for the site itself and is something I don't always have the time for, but need to make the time to just get some of my ideas finished to stand out more in a rather flooded market.

Another thing I'm looking forward to doing is an email newsletter. To some, this may seem out-dated, but my goal is to use it to update past clients (and anyone that signs up, really) and keep them in the loop on new things and features that Drupal has to offer for businesses, ministries and organizations.

I've recently created a Facebook fan page for Visual Notion to get info out in multiple channels at once. The main thing I like about this is that I have my Facebook page set to pull in my Visual Notion News & Updates RSS feed which loads it into Facebook and then, for each post, it updates my Visual Notion Twitter account.

Overall I'm excited about the changes, but just need to be able to buckle down and get these marketing items finished. As any other developer + designer could tell you, that is the hardest part.

Stay tuned!

Lord, please help me to get this stuff done.

Typographic Exercise: Baron Batch 25

eric — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:55:13 -0600

Lunchtime Color Inspiration & Quiz

eric — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:59:07 -0600

I've been looking for design inspiration outside of anything online, lately. Lunchtime provided me with great color inspiration for some fall-based designs. Here's my lunchtime color inspiration palette:

There were five main items I've chosen for this palette. See if you can guess which color matches the brands/products I ate that are listed below (alphabetically):

Jif
Orowheat
Smuckers
Snyder's of Hanover
Sun Chips

Vote for Blimey!

eric — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:02:45 -0500

First off, thank you to all who have been voting for my Vitamin Water label design and flavor name on Facebook every day.

Here's how to vote:

1) Login to Facebook
2) Go here: http://apps.facebook.com/flavorcreator/
3) Click on the black and pink "Vote for Bottle" button and search for "eric124" and vote for Blimey.

Voting is open until Oct. 20th. You can vote every 24 hours. Please keep it up!

After tithe and taxes, a portion of winnings will go towards helping Southcrest Christian School purchase supplies. It's a great school and I would appreciate your help in supporting it!

PLEASE pass it along the vote request and share with others.