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Around the Office: Steve Jobs’ Humility, Olympic Typography, Optical Illusions, and more
Around the Office is a weekly group blog that shows what the Kobayashi Online team has found interesting, funny, poignant, or otherwise notable over the past week. “The logo and typographic branding of the modern Olympics have been striking, sometimes iconic, and always a representation of the design ethic of the time,” says Monotype Imaging’s Allan Haley.…
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Bad Design Sometimes Hits the Mark, But That’s No Excuse
Sometimes bad design can be good. Ahem, sorry, let’s try this again: Bad design can meet the client’s objectives. But even though bad design sometimes hits the mark, we think there’s no excuse for bad design. And furthermore, you can incorporate whatever trickery that make horrible designs work into something that’s truly elegant and beautiful.…
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Around the Office: A Remote Orchestra, Getting Closer with Zoomy, Wes Bos Talks WordPress, more
Around the Office is a weekly group blog that shows what the Kobayashi Online team has found interesting, funny, poignant, or otherwise notable over the past week. Eva was in the lab – Google’s Web Labs that is – making music by controlling a virtual orchestra. Google’s Universal Orchestra, which allows people to control instruments online, is…
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Automated Twitter Updates for WordPress: 5 Steps to Make Great Tweets with WP to Twitter
When you publish new content to your blog, don’t wait for people to just stumble on it – tell your followers on Twitter and other social media channels about it! If you don’t have a lot of time, there are some great ways to automatically send out a Tweet the instant you publish a new…
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Around the Office: Louis CK Cuts Off Ticket Agents, Record Label Offers Free Samples, and the Old Office Gets Demolished
Around the Office is a weekly group blog that shows what the Kobayashi Online team has found interesting, funny, poignant, or otherwise notable over the past week. David, who often speculates on the future of digital media, is fairly certain that giving things away to let them play and create will loom large in marketing’s future. One…
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5 Ways to Apply Strategy to Your Online Content
“Content is king,” is an old adage that remains true in the Internet age, an age which has more or less become defined by the proliferation of content. But not all content is created equal. This is where content strategy comes into play. Content strategy helps provide a purpose to an organization’s website, blog posts,…
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Bilingual, Mobile-Optimized WordPress Site for CAMVAP
As Toronto’s design and development company for creative solutions to meet businesses’ biggest online challenges, Kobayashi Online was able to help CAMVAP meet its core mission of resolving disputes between consumers and vehicle manufacturers.