Fluid's Big Idea Blog is a place for the observation and collection of thoughts on design, creativity and business.
01.20.10 Matt Stuart
For Staff Meeting this morning, we participated in an activity geared toward developing teamwork and teaching about individual inputs toward a common goal. We were given various images and asked to draw them 2 times as big. We were not given any more instruction than that. Once we had completed our enlargements, we were told to assemble them like a ...
01.13.10 Jim Killian
Pentagram put together a fun little flash program that psychologically analyzes you and tells you what typeface you are. I apparently am rational, assertive, progressive and relaxed so my typeface is Bifur. Bifur is probably the only typeface on that list that I haven't used... but maybe I should. Try it out and let me know in the comments what ...
Appreciation, Blog, Business, Design, Entertainment, Typography
12.30.09 Matt Stuart
Sincere gratitude- have you expressed it? Wanna make people like you? Wanna see clients gravitate to you? Try it.
Here’s an article about “Thank You” from Go-To-Market Strategies:
When did you last say “Thank You” to a Customer?
“When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears” ~ Tony Robbins
It shocks us how many companies do not thank ...
12.2.09 John Dye
Wow! Big accolades from HOW.
Here we are: http://howdesign.com/top10sitesfordesigners/
John Dye
Genius!
Twitter co-founder explains a nice e-commerce app he is working on.
This will be a great little app that will help make processing credit cards remotely much easier.
The video quality is not great, but the concept of the app makes that immaterial.
10.27.09 Matt Stuart
I subscribe to a weekly newsletter from GO-TO-MARKET STRATEGIES and with improvements in parts of the economy, I thought the following article had some good thoughts:
Post Recession Sales and Marketing—It's over, now what?
Hopefully you read our recession marketing research and took our advice to ...
John Dye
Want to know how we spend some of our staff meeting time in October? Carving pumpkins! At Fluid, we are nothing if we are not creative. So when we are "sharpening the saw" for our next graphic design project, web site design, or social media seminar, we sharpen the knives and dig into some pumpkin skins.
10.12.09 John Dye
In an article entitled 9 Tips For Marketing Your Restaurant With a Facebook Business Fan Page, Mark Ijlal provides some great tips for restaurants and eateries hoping to use Facebook to increase clientele. Here is his list of 9 suggestions (slightly altered) that he gave to a friend who ...
Blogs, Business, Facebook, Social Media News, Uncategorized, Web 2.0
10.9.09 Kevin Perry
Every seven years, Stefan Sagmeister takes a year off: The Seven Year Itch. He talked about this at the AIGA Make/Think Conference.
09.14.09 Carrie Pymm
Let's be honest. There's no one-size-fits-all solution to survival during challenging times. But there are some strategies that will help no matter what situation you and your business are in.
The first strategy, for starters, is not to take things too seriously. I know that there can be significant consequences as a result ...
Picture Pieces | 
What Typeface are You? | 
Fluid Studio makes HOW's "Top 10 Sites for Designers" list | 
Halloween happenings at Fluid Studio! | 
9 Great Tips For Marketing A Restaurant With a Facebook Fan Page | 
Back stage with Sagmeister | 
How to Survive the Tough Times, Personally and Professionally | 
