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[ shift + option + drink ] will be held Thursday, January 25th from 6-8pm at Claddagh Irish Pub on 96th Street in Indianapolis.

[ shift + option + drink ] is open to AIGA members and everyone else. Feel free to bring along your friends, coworkers, etc.

Visit the AIGA Indianapolis web site for more information.

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Enough Designers, Just Not Enough With Proper Qualifications

"Despite the growing demand for designers in the business world, there remains a dearth of qualified designers." Read more...

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Don’t Make A Bad Deal

What Seth Godin says about making a deal.

Here's what entrepreneurs and bizdev folks ought to remember before they do a deal:

First, doing a deal is a good thing. Despite my warnings below, you don't get anywhere if your idea is a secret. A leveraged idea is worth sharing.

That said, please remember that the idea isn't what is worth anything. It's the effort and the cash and persistence that pays off.

1. Don't do a deal where each side gets a fixed percentage. A 50/50 split of a company invented in a bar is always a bad idea. Even paying someone 5% for some sort of contribution can come back to haunt you. Instead, build the deal around a shifting percentage based on contributions over time. 2. Don't assume that the money you start with is going to be enough. Let's say you and a buddy each put in $5k and each take half the business. Then what? What happens when the money runs out and only one of you is willing to put in the next block of capital? 3. Think about taxes. If you build a Sub S company, and the company loses money, you both get a write off...

Read the rest of the story.

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Coroflot Designer Salary Survey Results

After many respondents (designers in their respective industries) from all over the world chimed in, we get these results of the salary survey by Coroflot. Check out the beautiful charts and graphs then look at the results in a standard table format.

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Why Your Web Ap Sucks

"The reason it is so hard to make a great web application is because it is so easy to make it suck. The greatest ideas do not always translate into the greatest applications because of poor execution. What makes them so bad though? Let’s take a look." Read the rest of the article.

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10 Things That Will Make Or Break Your Website

"1. EASY is the most important feature of any website, web app, or program. Discoverability – everything is easy to find, features meant to enhance, not distract – can still be advanced, as long as it’s easy. Recoverability – actions should be without cost (ex: Digg, UnDigg). The web is about fulfilling needs – create things that let people do this as easily as possible. Drive usage. Generate touchpoints for easy spreading – easy to tell friends, relentlessly remove barriers to account signups. Make the website easy to use. Then make it easier." Read the rest of the article.

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MFA Becoming New MBA

"Design Schools are the new Business Schools, according to the October 9, 2006 issue of BusinessWeek magazine. Traditional business models are failing in the face of global competition, and American companies are scouring design schools for design-innovators to lead them into the twenty-first century with creative strategies. Great. But the question is, where will these young designers lead us? Will their skills in systems thinking and problem solving simply be exploited to make more money for bottom-line corporations? Or will these innovators find the courage to weave a conscience into their design solutions for corporate America." Read the rest of the article by Core77.

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A “Brand New” Site Designed With Brands In Mind

"Brand New is a Speak Up spin-off displaying opinions, and focusing solely, on corporate and brand identity work. It is a division of UnderConsideration."

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Find Your Midterm 2006 Election Results Here

You can find all of your official election results as they are tallied here.

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Logos And The Fonts They Use

The FontFeed a section of the Font Shop website can help find answers to that question you've had about a logo which you just can't seem to nail down.

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