21secs to Flow: "Think Out of the Box" animation

"Think Out of The Box" to think freely, not bound by old, nonfunctional, or limiting structures, rules, or practices.

A 3d animation with an abstract message shamelessly promoting my motion design graphics services

Who Remembers Quark Express!

All change in design world Adobe's new revenue model

I'm sure this model will trickle down to your business especially if you sell digital products (ie audio, pdfs, video training etc)

Who remembers Quark Express?... giving away my age there... Adobes photo shop cost £500 + but everyone bootlegs it (not me and you of course), so they've adopted a subscription based model for a small monthly fee you can download any or all of the Adobe products (illustrator, indesign, etc). It's incredible. 

The Cloud working in teams and revisions

It's part of Adobe whole transition to the cloud thing where files can be updated by designer or customer in cloud... no more emails back and forth getting confused as to which was the latest version... very much in transition phase but along with "Google Drive" everything is heading into the cloud! 

Free Programs for Webdesign

"Adobe Muse" great for small business or in house non designers to do micro websites sites (even full websites) with out any coding skills

"Adobe Edge" lets you do animations to your websites without flash or any programming both are free full working trials

set up a free account here: 

http://www.adobe.com/uk/downloads/

Kompozer Another Great Free Web Design Programme

Ohh also came across this free website editor program, it's excellent you make changes directly on the layout and saving then uploading (can't believe it's free).

http://kompozer.net/

Business Motivation Mark Hughes founder of Herbal Life

And Lastly you know I'm big on personal / business motivation, you'll love this 12 minute snippets from Mark Hughes founder of Herbal Life on sales mindset and good business principles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_Gd4ucc70c

If you haven't already had a melt down, let me know if this was useful

Thanks again.

Ash

Coming soon future newsletters!

• Function vs Form... achieving the balance between getting your message across, making a sale and a fancy design
• Logo appraisal... what message is your logo out, what's your brand id? can people tell what you do instantly?
• Newsletter Design and Mailing (still learning it myself, I'll let you know how I get on with mine lol)