Studio VS Agency VS Consultancy VS Firm May 20, 13, 9:59 a.m.

A question for everyone: How do you determine which noun is the proper semantic when describing you design/creative business?

To give some background - The company I currently work for is a wholly-owned subsidiary of a much larger company. We are a small group - about 15 employees, and are wondering what is the best term to describe this venture.

Studio - we feel studio might earmark us as 'too small' for our audience. Although our staff is relatively low we don't want to give the impression that we are just a couple of people in someones garage.

Agency - We feel this makes us appear larger than we are, although the term is not inaccurate. We just don't want to be mistaken for a really large agency.

Consultancy - this makes it sound like we don't actually do the work but rather simply 'consult' on it.

Firm - too boring?

Anyway, i'm curious to see what others think.

Internet laptop things May 20, 13, 6:49 a.m.

Alright?

You know those netbook/Chromebook/small laptop things you can get these days – are they any good?

I quite fancy something with a proper keyboard that is portable that I can chuck in a messenger back that doesn't cost the earth.

I'm an Apple fan but blowing £1000+ on an Air or 13" MacBook is a little out of my budget these days so I don't mind sacrificing OS X if I'm only really using it for internet and basic document creation/editing.

What do you peeps say? Anyone got one?

Edit facebook event date, help. May 19, 13, 3:10 p.m.

Does anyone know how to do this? I go into edit and I can edit everything except the date.

keynote/final cut question May 19, 13, 1:44 p.m.

hey guys... need some help.

making a presentation/video... using final cut x.

i export my keynote slides as images, synch to the audio and normally the text looks fine.

For some reason the text is looking all fucked up... like like back in the day with flash... how fonts looked all fucked up, same thing.

i tried exporting as png, then as tiffs but still having the same issue.

Anyone know how to fix this?

what is hand made? May 19, 13, 8:22 a.m.

I guy who makes his own synth and sells on etsy gets shutdown and is attempting to prove his claim of hand made to no avail so far. fuck etsy.

http://wtfbyrne.tumblr.com/post/…

http://wtfbyrne.tumblr.com/post/…

http://wtfbyrne.tumblr.com/post/…

Smatik Update 2013 May 19, 13, 7:32 a.m.

Dear QBN,

I recently updated my portfolio:
http://www.smatik.de

I would appreciate it if you take a look at it and share with me any creative thoughts or feedback. Thanks a lot

Best

Andre

flicker May 19, 13, 7:32 a.m.

-flicker-

standalone flip through? May 19, 13, 7:09 a.m.

hi,

a client wants to email out his pdfs as standalone readers with page-flip / peel effects. it can be just attached, saved and played from hd. is there a decent solution?

Romanthony May 19, 13, 4:43 a.m.

:(

dolphin of the day May 19, 13, 2:28 a.m.

Navy dolphins discover rare old torpedo off Coronado

http://www.latimes.com/news/loca…

Porn Face Tattoos. May 19, 13, 12:16 a.m.

http://www.vice.com/read/i-tatto…

The Seasteading Institute May 18, 13, 7:43 p.m.

http://www.seasteading.org/

What do you think of this concept?

WTF Belvedere Vodka? May 18, 13, 9:04 a.m.

Is the serif custom or any of you cats know wf?

Kanye video projections in 66 cities May 17, 13, 9:14 p.m.

http://pitchfork.com/news/50579-…

Genius

Evan Hecox May 17, 13, 4:59 p.m.

One of my favorite designers of all time updates his site.

Ann Coulter is retarded May 17, 13, 4:07 p.m.

"And of course its not even realistic. Since when have black people been able to speak foreign languages?"

http://dailycurrant.com/2013/05/…

Photos like this May 17, 13, 3:31 p.m.

I'm trying to get mood boards for a project, I want to go the dark/ gritty/ wtf route that Chris Cunningham has, but for photography.

Would love some suggestions on more examples if you guys have any.

Pantone Overseas May 17, 13, 1:35 p.m.

I am working on a project where we are sourcing products from Asia (China, Thailand and Vietnam).

The products are made with different colors of threads and we want very specific pantone colors for each string used. Most of the people Im talking too either don't know pantone or use the pantone website to get close (which of course is always off) or use their own color system.

I could of course send over a pantone book but they are expensive and we are sourcing from 20-30 different places.

My question is... Does anyone have any idea how I can create color sheet with 30-40 colors? Any other ideas how to communicate overseas about color? Do other countries use other color systems we could convert too that would make it easier?

Long question, thanks for any suggestions.

Princess Monster Truck May 17, 13, 1:15 p.m.

Princess Monster Truck coming soon.

partnership set up May 17, 13, 1:09 p.m.

Hey folks

I need some advice on how one would set up a partnership with a few people.

My main issue is how do you determine how revenue is split.

what happens when a project(s) only requires some of the partners and not all?

does anybody have a model in place that has worked?