David Schwab and Associates, Inc., is a healthcare marketing & communications consultancy. David and I worked together at the American Dental Association from 1986 to 1990 and since then have conspired on many successful marketing solutions for dental health professionals.
Adobe Systems, Inc. makes much of the software used in the creative industry today,
including InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Flash and Acrobat. Their free download for Adobe Reader can be found here.
Kuler is a site run by Adobe Labs that gives you access to color themes created by designers and developers. It’s a quick, fun way to view color and color combinations.
I belong to the Chicago Creative Coalition, a not-for-profit support organization for creative professionals. Anyone can search their database to find writers, photographers, printers, illustrators and web developers and designers.
I’m an advocate of hiring professional photographers to capture the unique quality of your organization or company. The work of some of the nation’s finest photographer’s and
illustrators can be viewed in the Workbook.
When it comes to stock photos, iStockphoto, a Canadian stock photography company, has a unique approach to stock photos. You purchase credits that can be used toward stock photos
that have been submitted by photographer/members from all over the world.
Many clients do not know that specialty fonts can be purchased for their own computers. The FontShop is one fine purveyor of fonts for both Mac and PC-based computers.
Writers abound in Chicago! Don’t hesitate to ask me for a recommendation. But if you like to shop online, check out the Independent Writers of Chicago.
Consolidated Printing Company deserves special mention because of the extraordinary measures they have taken to invent and adopt environmentally sound printing practices. Read about them if you want a good printer concerned about being green!
Copyright law is a source of some confusion in the communications industry. The law is meant to protect both clients and designers. The Graphic Artists Guild publishes the Graphic
Artists Guild’s Handbook of Pricing and Ethical Guidelines. Here’s a brief summary of creative copyright law excerpted from the book.
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Project Spotlight
Links related to web development, search engine optimization and other information for web designers.
Resources for clients including design-related services.
Miscellaneous links for the link curious.
This Is Not A Blog contains essays, short stories and poetry by Stephen B. Starr.
