Archive for the ‘Creative Ramblings’ Category

Navigating the working world is awesome and exciting, but can be a little daunting if it’s also your first time joining a “professional” environment. Fortunately, many of the skills that helped you succeed in your retail or food service job (you’ve had at least one of those, right?) will be applicable here too.

Last month on The Creative Attic we discussed the importance of a user-friendly, engaging website experience. In the post we covered layout, look and feel. This month we’ll tackle part two of giving off the right impression and keeping your visitor reading and clicking through your site: imagery and photography.
We’ll set the stage with a comparison many people can relate to: Facebook.

Here at The Creative Attic, on our Twitter page and over on Facebook we’ve shared plenty of neat ways consumers can use social media to connect with their favorite companies. There’s little doubt that technology and social media are helping consumers be smarter, savvier shoppers, and brand enthusiasts – spreading the word of their favorite [...]

With smartphones an almost permanent appendage for many of us, how do you “turn off”? A few of us here at Push 10 recently took well-deserved vacations to far-off locations, and while we cherished the time with loved ones and in new settings, we absolutely struggled with staying “disconnected” while the world continued to move [...]

There’s no doubt that the Internet is a terrific complement to any creative professional’s career. We can build a website or join any number of forums or social media sites to share our work with peers and new audiences. We can sell our work with just a couple clicks – an incredible convenience over the [...]

If you’ve been reading this blog or following us on Twitter for the past year or so, you probably have a good idea of our areas of interest. We like great design and smart messaging. (Okay, and beautiful cars) We’re always interested in how technology can help improve our world – both at work and [...]

One study shows that more than 75% of people give up on their New Year’s resolutions. Technology offers more ways than ever to help keep you accountable, and to feel a sense of success when December 31st rolls around yet again. Taking some of the most popular resolutions, we found a few websites and apps [...]

“What do you mean you still haven’t finished your holiday shopping?” That’s not us asking, that’s your smug friend, who started shopping for Christmas last December 26th. We get it, there are more important things that get in the way of snagging every doorbuster sale and every free shipping code.

Geeks can be great fun to shop for because you already have an idea of their interest(s). Which is exactly what makes geeks difficult to shop for – they’re discerning, hard to surprise and chances are they’re early adopters and may have stayed up late/waited in line for the hottest/latest thing that captures their attention.

Last Saturday I attended my first-ever BarCamp event in Philadelphia. For the uninitiated, BarCamp is a user-generated “unconference.” This means that there’s no set schedule of speakers or topics to promote before the event. Attendees sign up counting on the idea that they’ll share and absorb knowledge without knowing ahead of time exactly what the [...]