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QBN Sessions

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QBN recently held their first QBN Sessions lecture at The Getty Center in Los Angeles. The event brought together 12 preeminent designers, artists, photographers and film makers to speak about their creative process. They've just posted videos from the event on YouTube, including clips of Shepard Fairey, Michael Muller and Joshua Davis. Moreover, there's plenty of additional photos on Flickr. It's good to see QBN doing it up right and saturating all the outlets. In case QBN sounds familiar, they are the group behind Newstoday.

The Light Factory

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Tracy Russ, a copywriter we work with, graciously invited us to join him for lunch at a fundraising event for The Light Factory. Their website describes the organization like this:

The Light Factory is a non-profit arts center dedicated to exhibition and education programs promoting the power of photography and film. Each year thousands of people visit The Light Factory in Uptown Charlotte's Spirit Square to experience our exhibitions, take classes, hear talks, and see films.

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(Project Update) Zobo.tv Launched!

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We're excited to announce the launch of the Zobo.tv website. Take a look and let us know what you think. This site is a great example of how to make a lot of content very clean and navigation friendly.

Top 5 things to never do when inquiring about a graphic design position

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Studiobanks receives tons of email from young designers looking for entry-level design positions. However, the majority of the emails we receive I delete immediately. Having your email deleted is the worst thing that could happen. Even if the firm isn’t currently hiring, you should want them to save your information for when the time comes that they do need to hire someone.

To that end, here are my top five things to never do when inquiring about a graphic design position. While these will not ensure that your information is saved, it will at least ensure it is not deleted immediately.

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(Project Update) Aegis Brand Development Project Complete

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So we created a logo, designed all the collateral, including an extensive brochure and launched the Aegis website! Project went so well that Aegis is now on retainer with Studiobanks. More great stuff to come! Stay tuned.

The New AAF Charlotte

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We recently launched the new AAF Charlotte website to coincide with the beginning of their new season and mark the name change from Charlotte Ad Club to AAF Charlotte. The new site better organizes the group's content as well as adds some new features, including member profiles, company pages and a vendor search. Despite the addition of profiles, this isn't an attempt to create yet another social network. Try to think of it more as an advertising resource for the Charlotte region, as well as a way to keep up with AAF Charlotte happenings. Basically, if you work in an industry that deals directly or indirectly with advertising, you might want to look into joining AAF Charlotte.

(Project Update) Heels.com

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We were recently approached by one of our favorite clients to help design a logo for a new e-commerce website he is working on. The site will sell women's shoes and was appropriately named Heels.com. In the world of domain names, a short, generic word like "heels" is very valuable - so that made it kind of exciting for us. This particular client has his own team of web developers and just utilizes us for look and feel. So along with the logo we also designed out what each page of the website will look like. As of today, it looks like the developers have not implemented our design yet and have put up their own coming soon page.

Keen Keyboard Shortcuts

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Seeing as I've been using Adobe products almost everyday for the past ten years, I've come to appreciate a number of keyboard shortcuts that aren't generally known or used.

General

• Tab – Hide/Show Tools
• Apple, Alt, Semicolon – Lock/Unlock Guides
• Alt, Left/Right Arrow – Adjusts Kerning of Selected Text
• Alt, Up/Down Arrow – Adjusts Tracking of Selected Text

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No More Soup For You!

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This week's issue of the Charlotte Business Journal reports that local entrepreneurs John and Victorian Kirby will be opening an Original Soupman restaurant in downtown Charlotte. The Original Soupman was created by Al Yeganeh, better know as the inspiration of the "Soup Nazi" from the TV series Seinfeld. With most Original Soupman franchises in the northeast the Kirby's restaurant will be Charlotte's first taste of the 50 soup varieties.

Hillman Curtis - Artist Documentary Series: Paula Scher

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So, I was catching up on what JT Helms has been up to by reading his blog. JT used to work with us, before he upped and moved to Chicago last year. (Please come back JT!) And I came across this wonderful video clip that I think does an amazing job of describing the designer/artist point of view. I wouldn't do the clip justice by trying to recap it. Just watch for yourself: Hillman Curtis - Artist Documentary Series: Paula Scher.