Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll, does.
-David Carson
Hermes Creative Awards Winner
We are please to announce that our very own website design has been selected as a 2020 Hermes Creative Awards Gold Winner! https://enter.hermesawards.com/entry/j-drake-graphic-design-website-design/
Marketing Tips For Your Business During COVID-19
This is being reprinted with permission from my friend David Saunders, the Chief Idea Officer at Madison + Main. I look forward to his industry insight and musings every Friday afternoon! The Weekly Report for April 3, 2020 Hey folks, It’s a scary time for all of us....
Coronavirus (Covid-19)
Dear Richmond Friends and Family: In recent weeks, we have all closely monitored the developments related to the coronavirus (COVID-19). We are watching with empathy as communities around the world work to slow further transmission. We know that the collective choices...
Chesterfield County Public Library
Hot of the presses! The winter issue of the Chesterfield County Public Library Loud & Clear magazine arrived at the 10 Chesterfield County Library locations this week. It was a great privilege to work on the magazine for the county...
Opinion: 50 years ago, I helped invent the internet. How did it go so wrong?
By LEONARD KLEINROCK - Reproduced from the Los Angeles Times OCT. 29, 2019 3 AM When I was a young scientist working on the fledgling creation that came to be known as the internet, the ethos that defined the culture we were building was characterized by words such as...
Website Compliance: How Insurance and Your Web Designer Can Protect You
If your website is not ADA Compliant, you could be targeted for a lawsuit. Without the right insurance coverage, you may be paying out of pocket. Recently, there have been a rash of new lawsuits contending that business websites are not compliant with the Americans...
Position Conference: The Business of Design
Join AIGA Richmond for a two-day conference to discuss the business of design! Welcoming a lineup of internationally-recognized speakers: Chris Do – The Futur Jill Spaeth – Spaeth Hill David Saunders – Madison + Main Dontrese Brown – EDGE Center for Career Development...
Richmond BizSense
See the latest updates from Richmond BizSense: The Pitch: Advertising and marketing news for 5.14.19 J Drake Graphic Design completed a website refresh for new client Acorn Sign Graphics, which will also receive a new social media marketing plan. The web design...
How You Can More Accurately Predict the Future of Design, Using Steve Jobs’ “Lost Speech” from 1983 as an Example
A 28-year-old Jobs was eerily prescient. The key is to focus on certain fundamental nodes of progress By Christie Nicholson - April 22 I saw this article on Core 77 and wanted to keep it for posterity sake....
THE WORLD WIDE WEB TURNS 30. WHERE DOES IT GO FROM HERE?
TODAY, 30 YEARS on from my original proposal for an information management system, half the world is online. It’s a moment to celebrate how far we’ve come, but also an opportunity to reflect on how far we have yet to go. The web has become a public square, a library,...
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