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Social media by the numbers

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How to build a magazine cover

Imaging what graphic designers do to fashion models.

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BMW, Milwaukee and Santiago Calatrava

BMW‘s upcoming 5 Series GT photographed against Santiago Calatrava’s work in Milwaukee….but you have to look very close to figure it out.

BMW Series GT and Calatrava

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Adobe’s PowerPoint killer ?

Billed as a collaborative slideware application Adobe Labs has launched Presentations.  Yet after building a series of prezos and testing the waters I must admit: I was expecting a lot more with Adobe’s online reputation.

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adobe presentations

At first glance you may ask is this Adobe’s PowerPoint Killer?  Actually the real competition is with SlideRocket, a strong online presentation tool that has been online for a couple of years and gathering high praise. Both Keynote and SlideRocket take a strong visual approach to authoring slide presentations.

Look at Photoshop.com to see how powerful visual tools can be migrated from the desktop to the internet.  In the end desktop competitors PowerPoint and Keynote along with online competitor SlideRocket are much more robust presentation tools.

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BMW’s Gina

This is BMW’s latest concept car made of high tech fabric, called GINA. But I’m not sure how my wife would take my statement “I’m taking Gina for a ride”

BMW Gina