Got milk?

10 January 2008 by jillbarringer

A beautiful bit of marketing-led-design-programming-triumph: gettheglass.com

Thanks to creativepro for the link.

(We don’t have the marketing term ‘got milk?’ in the UK but it’s such a great tag line that my Husband and I use it all the time. See wikipedia for the history of the Got Milk campaign.)

Ideabook is…full of ideas

10 January 2008 by jillbarringer

A fellow called Chuck Green writes the site www.ideabook.com. Basically it’s an ‘expert in his field’ type of site with design tutorials and full of great tips. I’ve followed it for years and it’s been a real fountain of knowledge (I’ve checked; it is fountain, not font or fount). He has the most elegant ideas about design and is a great teacher – concise, fun, useful.

I’ve just noticed Chuck has a blog at www.pageplane.com. It has a link to Jeff Bridges website; www.jeffbridges.com. Worth a visit. A refreshing and friendly site, full of his drawings. It is this fantastic randomness of links that I love about the internet!

Hello t’internet

8 January 2008 by jillbarringer

Hooray and welcome.

This is the first post of MC Research’s blog. It is written by me, Jill Barringer, the Marketing Manager at MC Research. Disclosure: We write and sell software for database publishing. Advert over.

I wanted to have a place where I could summarise all the information I find when I trawl the internet. Links to design, QuarkXPress, software, marketing, fonts, databases, Macs vs PCs, cartoons, English language/semantics, photography, creativity; everything that touches what we do here at MC Research and some things that don’t.

Let the good times roll.