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Rex Hammock’s RexBlog.com
The blog of Rex Hammock, founder/ceo of Hammock Inc., the content marketing, strategy and media company founded in 1991 in Nashville, Tenn. Rex is also founder/helper-in-chief of the wiki, SmallBusiness.com.
RexBlog.com was created in August, 2000.
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Category Archives: design
Redundant redundancy in UI design
I’m all for ease-of-use and intuitive user-interface (UI) design. Usability is my middle name. Well, actually, Rex is my middle name, but whatever. However, my desktop is getting confusing, now that we’ve started the journey from browser-based interactions with the … Continue reading
Posted in design, internet
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How a chart can suggest the opposite of what is says
I’ve read conflicting claims about which day of the year is the busiest travel day. (The day before Thanksgiving and the day after Christmas are favorites of bored TV news crews.) No matter what precise day you choose, if you … Continue reading
Posted in design, observation, statistics, usability
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Your-name-here publication design is fill-in-the-blank.
You know how there are companies that match up a business that needs a logo with a logo designer — actually, with hundreds of designers: companies like HP’s Logo Works. And you know how you can find thousands of free-lance … Continue reading
Posted in design, magazines
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Nice effort, but the Mag+ app deserves a Mag-
As you can imagine, I’m very interested in iPad apps that extend an existing media brand into (onto?) touchscreen mobile devices. One early iPad effort that received a lot of attention during “the first week of iPad” has been Popular Science+, … Continue reading
Posted in design, iPad
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In praise of a banner ad
This post is a reviewof this banner ad, but clicking on it won’t take you anywhere. I feel fairly confident this post marks the first time in this blog’s near decade-long history that I’ve written a review of a banner … Continue reading
Want to Paint a New Yorker cover? There’s an App for that
(via: The New Yorker Blog) Artist Jorge Colombo drew this week’s New Yorker cover using Brushes, an application for the iPhone, while standing for an hour outside Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum in Times Square. The magazine’s blog has also posted … Continue reading
Posted in design, iphone, magazines
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Flu symptom design watch – look for cliché surgical mask illustrations
The last time a virus story hit the news radar was six years ago (almost to the day). One of the symptoms of the SARS virus was its effect on magazine cover designers and the editors with whom they work. … Continue reading
Posted in design, magazines
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Puppy post
Some of you may recall my post last November when I was in awe of a post-election New Yorker cover illustration by Bob Staake. (Later, the cover was selected by Time as the best magazine cover of the year). When … Continue reading
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Users are great for helping you tweak products, but don’t ask when you want break through ideas
(credit: HelveticFanatic, Flickr, [CC]) Robert Scoble has jumped into the debate over the new interface design of Facebook. Scoble’s piece expresses an insight I believe is too often missed by those who confuse the concept of “pleasing the user” with … Continue reading
Posted in conversational media, design, facebook, google, social media, social networks
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Whitehouse.gov is now a blog, get over it
Last night, I grabbed a screenshot of Whitehouse.gov so I could compare it to what is today, a new site. The design and typography reflect the look established by the Obama campaign, however, the “new” site brings along some standard … Continue reading
Posted in breaking news, design
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Time Magazine names the New Yorker’s Obama election cover the best cover of the year, but you knew that…
Arthur Hochstein, writing for Time.com’s list of top 10 magazine covers of 2008, says #1 goes to The New Yorker, Nov. 17, 2008 cover: “Why is the cover great? It doesn’t do a victory dance. Rather, it whispers to the … Continue reading
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Print is alive: The New Yorker magazine cover and animation
In a week when people are snapping up printed media as personal mementos of an event of a lifetime (I jokingly asked on Twitter why people didn’t just print out a copy of a website), I’d like to make a … Continue reading
Posted in design, magazines
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Dear Yahoo! Fire Eagle – the flaming thumbtack is already taken
Today, Yahoo! announced the release of Fire Eagle, a service that, according to Search Engine Land, “is intended to be something of a ‘clearinghouse’ or ‘switchboard’ for location and help users ‘manage location’ across the internet and on mobile applications.” … Continue reading
Posted in copyright, design, humor, identity, social networks, titans, Yahoo
Tagged humor, Yahoo
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A little video fun for fans of font humor
From the funny folks at CollegeHumor: [via: Print CEO Blog]
Quote of the Day: Rob Haggart (A Photo Editor Weblog)
From the post: “Who Should We Put On The Cover?“
