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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
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
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In praise of a banner ad
This post is a review of 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 ad. But … 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
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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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