Category Archives: Behavior

Comp Shoot Comp

For five days I’ve been struggling with some look and feel comps for a new Web site that Behavior is working on. This is one of the toughest assignments I’ve had in a while — it’s taken me six full-fledged comps to get to a state where I have three that I like. Sometimes, I guess, it’s necessary to work through a lot of bad work before getting to a satisfactory design.

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Get Carded

Avery Clean Edge Ink Jet Business CardsDesktop publishing doesn’t really get a lot of press anymore, but it’s truly amazing how far it’s come, even in the past ten years. A Behavior client needed some quick’n’dirty business cards using designs from an in-progress identity development project, so I went out and bought a pack of Avery Clean Edge Ink Jet Business Cards. They’re blank, perforated letter-size sheets that run through an ink jet printer. With their ingenious, invisible perforations, and the astonishing print quality of my Epson Stylus C80, it’s almost impossible to tell the end product didn’t come from an offset printing press.

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Time Out

I’m so, so tired this evening, due in no small part to the fact that Behavior is in the final production stages of a site that’ll launch on 20 Apr. Also, I’ve got a big presentation on Thursday for a potential client and I’m excited and worried about it. Sometimes being in start-up mode makes me feel like I could work forever doing the work of ten designers, and sometimes it makes me want to just park my butt in front of the TV with a whole stack of DVDs.

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Good Help These Days

BehaviorBehavior is still itching for some good visual designers, so if you’re smart, talented, can lead a design team, are not a primadonna, then please send us something friendly at jobs@behaviordesign.com.

We’ve pretty much just started doing interviews, and now that I’m an owner in my own business, I find that I take the process much more seriously than I did before. Or, at the very least, my questions are much more specific and I listen much more attentively. It’s interesting meeting candidates though, and chatting with them about how they work… looking for similarities and differences in the way everyone does design. The genral process seems to be: mood boards, comps, iterations, slice up the art. It sounds so simple when it’s put like that.

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Good Times

Things have been very hectic but I look at that as a good thing, actually. 2002 is bound to be a way better year than its predecessor, or at least I’m hoping as much. Things at Behavior are starting to gain steam, and the mood of just about everyone I know is markedly better than last year. At any rate, I’m back to posting here regularly.

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Motient Corporation and Rare Medium Group to Merge

“RESTON, Va., and NEW YORK, May 14 /PRNewswire/ — Motient Corporation (Nasdaq: MTNT) and Rare Medium Group (Nasdaq: RRRR) today announced the signing of a definitive merger agreement through which Motient will acquire 100 percent of Rare Medium Group using a combination of newly issued Motient stock, shares of XM Satellite Radio stock (Nasdaq: XMSR) owned by Motient and certain other considerations.”

Read the full text of the press release here. I have absolutely no comment right now.

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