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Growing Up and Moving Out

Growing Up and Moving Out (My blog or - for the younger generation - my blawg) is a collaboration of my thoughts on a few matters in life, business and whatever else strikes my fancy.

A lot of it may be about Red Giant Design Studio:

Red Giant Design Studio is my pride any joy. In partnership with a good friend since our schooling days, we have come a long way and learned a huge amount about designing websites and creating brands, growing a business and generally learning new things in life day in and day out.
Having recently reinvented our business as Red Giant Design Studio, we are hoping to incorporate all that we have learned about marketing and growing a business from the ground up in order to make our good business a great one. This blog will document our experiences and will hopefully be of interest to those of you who share similar passions.

With Growing Up and Moving out, there will be no rigorous posting schedule that I adhere to, nor will posts be of any particular length. Writing is one of my passions and I will try my best to write some decent content whenever the inspiration strikes. That said, it is a "chilled" blog purely for enjoyment purposes.

I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I'll enjoy writing it.

- Mark

  1. Logo Design 101 - Part 1 - Brainstorming

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    After my post regarding business card design was so well received by everybody, and after numerous questions answered and debates had with members here, I have decided to tackle logo design as my next major "post".

    Unfortunately/fortunately I have so much to talk about regarding logo design that I will be splitting it all into a mini-series consisting of 3 parts, this post being part 1. You can expect part ...
  2. Exams done, business as usual...

    After having finally completed my last exam on Tuesday and officially being on "holiday" I can finally devote the majority of my time towards the business again. Definite relief from my side because I hated having to dump my workload on my partner for the past month while I was busy pouring over hundreds of pages of accounting and auditing notes!

    It's now back to business as usual for us at Red Giant (and me here at TFSA), with us having to take care of a backlog of four client ...
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  3. It's that time again...


    Exam time.

    Twice a year, it's quite obvious to everybody who visits my home that I'm in the build up to exams. Books, notes and stationery all over the place, coffee cups scattered in strategic places amongst it all, and me - developing a few more grey hairs than I would like at this age!

    This is just a short entry to let all of you who follow my blog ...
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  4. What is this Joomla! thingamabob?

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    Joomla! Content Management System
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    If you are a moderate user of the internet and have any interest in web design and development whatsoever, chances are you have, at some time or another, heard of Joomla! If you aren't the most tech-savvy person alive, you probably haven't got the foggiest clue of what Joomla! actually is!

    I am constantly explaining to my clients ...
  5. Business Card Design 101

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    As mentioned in my first blog post, Standing Out From the Crowd, Red Giant is a venture in which we aimed to be remembered. One of the primary image-related things we focused on in order to achieve that goal was great business card design.

    A full 2 weeks were spent researching, brainstorming, designing and redesigning our business cards, in order to make sure they were perfect. We wanted to receive great reactions every time we handed ...

    Updated 20-Apr-11 at 04:30 PM by Mark Atkinson

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  6. Standing Out from the Crowd

    In most markets, being unique and separating your business from your competitors is extremely important in order to be able to succeed. In the web design niche, this is especially pertinent.

    The Internet has seen a global shift in the way business is done. Paperwork is now considered-old fashioned and people are using technology for almost everything. The result is that every man and his dog is trying to take advantage by entering the web development market, creating one of the ...

    Updated 19-Apr-11 at 05:06 PM by Mark Atkinson

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