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04.16.12
Is There Class in America?
SullivanPerkins has been doing some design work for Class In America, a project that is investigating what people in our country think about the concept of class. It started with a logo. We were also asked to provide a little blurb about our logo for the Class in America website, which we gladly did.…
04.16.12
Developing a First-Class Logo
This particular logo project didn’t start out as a logo project. It started out as designs that could be used as illustrations for a book cover. (The people conducting the Class In America project plan to turn their findings into a book eventually.) A couple of these book cover design explorations are shown here. However,…
04.10.12
The Difficulty of Dealing with Dealing with Difficult People
We get tons of promotional material for business seminars, yet this one – Dealing with Difficult People – seems to have struck a chord. Why, we have no idea. “Mark” thought it would make a good blog post. Who are these Difficult People he’s thinking of? Certainly not any of our clients. We love you!…
03.30.12
For a Young Athlete in Kneed
A friend of ours came to SullivanPerkins with a special request. His 16-year-old daughter Kriss, a dedicated soccer player, had experienced a severe injury to her knee during play, tearing her ACL. She was told her knee required surgery, and she turned to the internet for more information. But the information and support she wanted…
07.27.11
Whatever happened to…?
The other day we were informed that KERA-TV aired a documentary first produced in 1976, The Mysterious Rhinestone Cowboy. Using material from 1976 in 2011 is an admirable example of recycling in action. But even more mysterious than the career, outfits, or hairstyle of country singer David Allan Coe, who sang about mama, trains, and…
02.11.11
Cultural Exile
Beatriz Terrezas – gifted Dallas journalist, Board Member of the Bob Jones Nature Center and friend of SP – writes about the effects on her family of the continuing violence in Mexico, in the Texas Observer. Read in this moving essay how “exiled border souls” have been cut off from half their culture because of…
01.28.11
All Aboard for eMagazines?
With the advent of tablet devices, everyone’s excited about eMagazines and their potential. As reported by All Things Digital, a recent study by Next Issue Media projects that “[tablet] magazines and similar stuff will generate $3 billion in advertising and circulation revenue in 2014…” We’re finishing up a Flash eBrochure for BNSF Railway, and it…
11.16.10
Nineteen ninety-six called; it wants its hyphen back.
From yesterday’s Wall Street Journal: