Alibaba, Bad Employer, China, Communication, Discount Prices, Environment, honesty, Industry Changes, Internet, Knock Offs, Manufacturer MSRP, Pollution, Stock Market, Uncategorized, Waste

Will Alibaba’s $25 Billion Singles Day Kill Us?

What is the environmental footprint of the $25 Billion Alibaba Singles Day 2017 figure? If you are not aware, Alibaba hopes to eventually either shut down your e-commerce operation, or simply absorb it into the Alibaba portal realm. In North America you probably already thought this was a danger from either Walmart or Amazon. But those two companies have nothing…

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China, Color Consistency, Communication, Customer Service, Discount Prices, Industry Changes, Internet, Knock Offs, Large Format Graphics, Manufacturer MSRP, Trade Show Displays

The Race To The Bottom In Portable Exhibits

An industry insider view on how the Internet has changed the portable display industry in the last 16 years and where it will go. Around the time that the dot com bubble burst in 2000 there were some fantastic ideas of what the Internet could become. Unfortunately, at the time, the ideas were more developed than the technology available or…

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Graphic Design General

Graphic Design Isn’t Art

A company brochure may be pretty, but your designer should never think it is artwork Years ago I was asked to make a brief presentation to a graphic design class at a college. I had been working in the industry for about five years and had hundreds of successful designs under my belt but felt there was an important point…

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