The History of Typography – An Animated Short
COOL! Do you have a favorite typeface? Leave a comment below!
Meet Robert Hunt: Creator Of Awesome Industry App @PrintApply
As I often mention, one of the perks to having a website that’s dedicated to sharing cool things with our community is that cool things come along! Such is the case with Print Apply – an App for print professionals and graphic designers! I’ve had the App and have been sharing info about it for […]
Are Maps The Key To Unlocking Higher Marketing Conversion Rates?
As I mentioned in a recent post Personalization Is About To Get Real Personal, one of the cool techs I learned about at the Xplor 13 conference was locr Maps presented by CEO Rolf Richter. At first I was a little skeptical, especially since he claimed “marketing campaigns using locr maps have proven to be […]
PAPERCUTS: A New Webinar Series For Paper Lovers Everywhere!
PrintMediaCentr Partners with Paper Merchants, The National Paper Trade Association (NPTA), and AtTask to Bring New Webinar Series to Paper Lovers Everywhere! New format brings opportunity for Print Buyers, Designers, and Marketers to learn about multiple substrates and engage directly with Paper Merchants and Spec Reps. The Printerverse – April 23, 2013 – PrintMediaCentr (PMC) […]
Personalization Is About To Get Real Personal
Not too long ago I wrote a guest blog for Printing Impressions about the Trade Show Road Less Travelled and spoke about my experience attending the Xplor Conference for the first time, and why I keep going back. Having just returned from the 2013 event last week, my conviction that Xplor is a hidden gem […]
[infographic] Serif Vs Sans: The Final Battle
Ticking off the “you learn something everyday” box for today… had no clue there were two classifications of Serif fonts!
3D Printers: What I Thought I Knew, But Know Now
Brian Rothschild has been a connection of mine on LinkedIn for quite a while, and he always has something lively and topical to add to the discussions he participates in throughout the platform. I was totally psyched that I would finally be able to meet him face to face at Graphics of The Americas, and […]
Exploring Some Of The Largest Posters Ever Made
Excited to have Chris Taylor sharing content with PMC! He writes about wide format, and certainly started off BIG with this topic! As will be evident below, Chris is from the UK so sizes are provided in metrics (ACK!) and a “football pitch” is a “football field” in American… enjoy! Exploring some of the largest […]
Meet Think Tanks Dean Rose, The Happy Hero of High-End Packaging
I meet some of the most amazing people through my LinkedIn Group, and Dean Rose is certainly one of them. What immediately drew me to him was his passion for Print – this is a guy who LOVES his job and could easily make a living as a motivational speaker for the industry! On top […]
Dita Von Teese Models 3D Printed Dress
It’s not the first 3D printed dress, but having Dita Von Teese model it might ultimately make it the most famous. I saw an interview with her about it this morning and she said that it was “comfortable” to wear. The dress was printed in sections and then constructed to allow for some movement, but […]
NYT's "Game of Thrones" Shadow Ad Takes Over The News
Genius! Genius! Genius! Im trying to control my excitement here, but it’s going to be difficult. Just to get it out the way, they had me at Game Of Thrones (GOT). Add in a Dragon Shadow flying across the spread and Im just about jumping for joy. But more than the brilliant concept here, to me […]
Where AR We Now: The Current State of Augmented Reality
By Ben Freund I decided to challenge myself for this month’s article. I decided I was going to find out what was so exciting about AR technology, and when I figured it out, I’d let you know what it was. See, my understanding of AR was a little out of date. As far as I […]