Editorial
February 11th, 2010
Design Thinking to the Rescue
Thoughts from the recent Sarasota International Design Summit.
By Kim Cartlidge
Hosting a design summit solely for designers and creative types is so last year. The forward-thinking Ringling College of Art and Design chose instead last week to spread the word about how design thinking might deliver businesses and the region from the grips of the recession. [...]
READ MOREFebruary 9th, 2010
ROBRADY Covers the 2010 Social Media Conference in Miami
Recently I traveled to Miami to represent ROBRADY at the 2010 Social Networking Conference. Overall it generated some great enthusiasm and I walked away with fresh ideas for our social media agenda. The dominating theme of the conference was how to build relationships through the various social media channels and use Web 2.0 tools to [...]
February 4th, 2010
Inventing, Inc.
Yeah, we get it, you have an idea – but is it a good one? In an era of people lining up for “cattle calls,” queues are stretched around the corner and full of inventors hoping to get a shot at pitching their ideas for an infomercial or hitting the “big time” on a major [...]
December 31st, 2009
2009: Augmented Reality’s Odyssey
While perusing the web for multimedia ideas in 2005, I came across a demonstration of something called Augmented Reality (AR)—not to be confused with the failure of the mid-90s known as Virtual Reality (VR). As I watched the demonstration I remember asking myself, “what am I seeing here? Is this for real?” The demo generated [...]
December 11th, 2009
Rob Brady Discusses The Business Of Design With CEOwise Part 2
Rob Brady sits down with Sean Burke from CEO Insights to discuss the business of design. This interview originally appeared as a podcast on CEOwise.com. In this interview with Sean, you will hear Rob discuss: what it is like being in the “eye candy” business; the increased importance of design in business; how design is [...]
December 4th, 2009
Rob Brady Discusses The Business Of Design With CEOwise
Rob Brady sits down with Sean Burke from CEO Insights to discuss the business of design. This interview originally appeared as a podcast on CEOwise.com. In this interview with Sean, you will hear Rob discuss: what it is like being in the “eye candy” business; the increased importance of design in business; how design is [...]
October 27th, 2009
Rob Brady, Ed Benjamin and David Cabanban Discuss Electric Bikes
E-bike consultant Ed Benjamin; David Cabanban of Sanyo; and Rob Brady of ROBRADY design discuss electric bikes with BikeBiz executive editor Carlton Reid. 29-minute show was filmed at Interbike Las Vegas in September 2009.
August 11th, 2009
Attention Content Geeks: Style is Back, Baby!
The short answer is this: Content is king, but content is more than words. If your brand is about style your entire Internet footprint must project sophistication.
In my experience, “content” started out as a goofy term created by Web programmers who didn’t really care what the site was about. Visual webmasters worried about the visuals, [...]
