The Enterprise Ireland ‘Best of Irish’ Design exhibition is finishing up today in Glasnevin.
Enterprise Ireland’s Design Aware Briefing will provide essential information on the effective use of design to add value to business. The breakfast briefing consists of a number of presentations including advice on seleting and briefing a design consultancy, the advice, training and funding supports available from EI in the area of design and a company will also share their story of how they used design to enhance their product, brand and corporate identity. After the briefing attendees will have the opportunity to view the ‘Best of Irish’ Design Exhibition which will showcase award-winning designs by Irish designers across a range of design disciplines. The exhibition will appeal to all business sectors.
Recent article on from Maccentral.com. I wonder if the Yahoo climb has anything to do with their recent homepage redesign
Google’s Web sites continued to be the U.S.’s most-used search source in July, but lost 1 percent market share to Yahoo, comScore Networks said Sunday.
Google accounted for 43.7 percent of all U.S. searches, but declined in total use for the first time after 11 consecutive months of increases, comScore said. Yahoo’s sites increased to 28.8 percent, up 0.3 percent over June of this year, but still down by 1.7 percent compared to the same month last year. Microsoft and MSN sites stayed unchanged at 12.8 percent.
Yahoo and Google continued to dominate the browser-based toolbar search market, with over 95 percent of all toolbar searches between them, comScore said.
All searches totalled 6.3 billion for July, down two percent from June and reflecting seasonal change, comScore said.
While we’re in the process of redesigning our site and bringing it up to date with our new Design and Marketing services, we’ve added some recent design work to our temp holding page.
Visit www.edenweb.ie and click on the Portfolio link on the top right of the page. Believe it or not, in the last 5/6 years we’ve never had our own design work on our site.
Anyway, please take a look and I’d love to hear your feedback.
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Why do some organizations look great… and get great results from their design efforts and ads… while others languish in mediocrity? I think it has little to do with who they hire and a lot to do with how they work with their agencies and designers.
Here are the things your design team wishes you would know:
- If you want average (mediocre) work, ask for it. Be really clear up front that you want something beyond reproach, that’s in the middle of the road, that will cause no controversy and will echo your competition. It’ll save everyone a lot of time.
Seth Godin hits the spot with his post - How to live happily with a great designer
UK design organisation, D&AD are launching D&AD Northwest.
The organisation which aims to champion excellence in creativity globally will kick off the expansion with a lecture from President, Johnson Banks and culminate in a series of year-round events, workshops and exhibitions all aimed at a vibrant creative base in the NorthWest of England.
Speaking of Creativity and England, I’ll be in the Northest myself this weekend but the most creative thing I intend to do is rest and get plenty of fresh air.
Have started working with an exciting new(ish) hi-tech company who are seeking level 2 funding and need their homepage and web site redesigned for a VC round which will take place in the US over the coming weeks.
Continue reading ‘The many roles of a corporate web site’
