I often get asked by my clients about infographics and visualized data. To them infographics represents the bright shiny object that will help them promote their products and services better. I completely agree. The design of great infographics and data visualizations can tell a story, promote an idea and give you the data to support…
Car commercials, beer commercials, car commercials, beer commercials, with an occasional movie or business service thrown in. How exciting. I’m a huge football fan and try to watch as much of my favorite teams as possible throughout the year. This is the normal formula for televised football games. Why should I expect anything different here?…
Back in the fall of 2011, I was honored to present at Pecha Kucha Seattle on the topic of “Design Makes Social Good”. If you are unfamiliar with Pecha Kucha you can find more about it here. Each presenter has 20 slides with 20 seconds each to talk on a particular topic. It is a…
As a follow up to the Regulating Greenwashing post I had a year ago, I wanted to show this infographic from Marketing Degree. Thank you Jenica Rhee (Twitter: jenicarhee) for sending this my way. A couple things really stood out to me with this graphic. Shop at big box stores Now this is interesting. The…
Riverbed had the privilege of working with Pioneer Human Services again this year on their annual report. This is always a gratifying project that feels like you are making a difference in the world. Pioneer Human Services is one of the nation’s largest social enterprise organizations, often cited as a national model in providing a…
Last fall four of Riverbed’s logo designs were featured in two books. Logolicious by Peleg Top featured Community Skate & Snow and Fremont Community School, while Design DNA by Matthew Healey featured Community Skate & Snow and Northwest Hub. We are excited to learn this fall our work will be published again. This time it…
We are all waiting for spring to come here to the Northwest. It feels like we skipped spring and summer altogether and went right into fall. Here are a few photos I have taken over the last couple months. Sometimes it helps to shift our mindset about the environment around us by taking the time…
At Riverbed Design we recently finished up a fun project for one of our clients, Ecoyards. The project was to design a postcard to help promote Ecoyards in the neighborhoods they are currently doing work in. This new postcard design was building upon a series of postcards we had created over the past couple years….
2010 has been a year of transition and growth for me personally and for Riverbed Design. The events and happenings around me have shaped my year through my family, business, community and friends. I find that the books I’m reading often reflect what is going on in with my life. I thought I would share…
Design and communication firms should be aware of the new Federal Trade Commission (FTC) regulations affecting products communicating their “green” aspects called the Green Guides. Don Carli, Executive Vice President and a Senior Research Fellow with the Institute for Sustainable Communication, does a phenomenal job of describing what is at stake for the FTC regulations…