I've always been fascinated by design and marketing at Coca-Cola. This article, at Business Week, is a look at how David Butler makes design change in a large organization. Don't miss the part about the internal Web based design software that only allows creation of artwork that conforms to the brand standards.

Say It Loud hosted AIGA Orlando's exhibit of red themed posters designed to affect change.

People were even wearing red!

This year's HOW Design Conference was (also) 16 hours a day of design and creative inspiration.

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Photographer Amy Guip presented her body of work to AIGA Orlando last evening.

Amy isn't afraid to use Photoshop to "create an image in post." She talked about shooting for one image in England, a studio in New York City and a forest in up-state New York and creating the final on the computer. Her images are enriched from her digital texture library which she draws on to give her digital images a hand produced feel. She is successful with this approach and her client list is impressive.

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Yesterday a colleague and I were able to squeeze in a few minutes on the convention floor of Photoshop World. There were some interesting booths. I almost purchased a Lens Baby, but decided even the convention special was a little expensive for a toy lens. Most booths had a presenter wearing a microphone and talking about various products or techniques. The end result was the inability to hear anything. We squeezed close enough to hear some discussions about black and white conversions, Lightroom, and DNG. Joe McNally was demonstrating shooting techniques.

A friend of mine suggested I needed to watch the following video of Joe. What fun.

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