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As the sun sets on another semester and another course this blog post lets me reflect on the things I have and have not learned in this course. I get to talk pros and cons and give my own personal OU eval. Let's start. It is difficult to find one single word that sums up … Continue reading Goodnight Ad Copy and Layout →

These last few weeks we have been working with the adobe program photoshop. I think everyone has heard of photoshop and its wondrous capabilities when it comes to editing pictures, but one thing I was not aware of is that it can be used to design websites. Well, kind of, anyway, it can design how … Continue reading Photoshop is not picture perfect →

I am proud to say I, Gage Bauer, have made something in Adobe suite. It might be a very simple and awkwardly drawn puzzle piece, but it counts. It is also much better than the atrocity that the newest, and soon to be the newest failure, a bar on campus corner, Chyxs and Styx. Their failure … Continue reading Chyxs and Styxs makes me syxs →

Positioning, it's something that Al Ries and Jack Trout laid out all the way back in 1980. Companies who do not hold to the laws of Positioning, that is the first two companies in a consumer's mind will prosper and the others will slowly but eventually suffer, will suffer for it. They laid out several … Continue reading The Google Pixel is doomed to fail →

I will start with this, I am not a fan of capitalizing on holidays. I think they are special periods people experience a few times a year, but with that said, what's up with Valentine's Day? February 14th, it is a day of love for some and loneliness for others. Everyone is reminded of whom … Continue reading Valentine’s Day, where you at? →