Bananas

That’s what my accountant says about creative people as opposed to the people in her office.  “Creative people are just bananas when it comes to numbers.”

Maybe she is right.  There are levels of “bananas,” however.  I’m not that bad with the numbers (the finances of our business), but I do hope that her expertise by comparison makes me look bananas.

On the other hand, at DBD we like to extend “numbers” to represent a lot of analytical thinking beyond just the accounting of revenue and expense. The numbers for us mean the measurement of several things.

The measurement of a market size, the value of potential share gain, how sustainable is a market, is there a better market with better numbers in which to spend a client’s time…

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HTML5, Flash, and iOS… Oh my!

Their intent was to talk their clients away from using HTML5 for data visualization projects in favor of the still dominant Flash. They also have a side-comparison to iOS usage—I assume to show that developing iPhone Apps is also not their preference.

What I like about this infographic though is that it shows very well that Flash is far from dead, and it should remain an option to be considered for specific projects with specific audiences. But as with any project you must know Flash’s weaknesses in order to know when to use it and when not to.

The same, of course, can be said for HTML5 and iOS apps.

The web continues to be in turmoil when it comes to standards and best practices (no thanks to Microsoft and Internet Explorer). Flash is…

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Great Ad Industry Films

I watched the documentary called “Art & Copy” through my Netflix streaming this weekend. Great film! A must see for all in the industry of advertising, marketing, and design.

Definitely can give you pride in our industry to hear the great minds of the recent past and today in our line of work talk about what they love.

“Helvetica” is another good film, by the way, but more specific to the typeface.

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CSS Web Images Will Save Download Times

Came across this blog post this past weekend:

CSS is the new Photoshop

It’s talking about CSS3 and HTML5’s ability to render graphic elements with absolutely no images involved. The benefit being that you have fewer calls to the server to retrieve images (why CSS sprites have become popular).

The print guys can think of it like Illustrator vs Photoshop. This new process doesn’t use pixels (like Illustrator). Where Photoshop pixels have the overhead of downloading from the server, these can render within the browser itself.

Nested several links deep it gets to this CSS Images example page (requires the latest Safari or Chrome):

It’s not necessarily the slimmest HTML out there (you can see how they…

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