 • | 64% of decision makers look at email on their mobile device. | | • | 25% of Americans have watched a video on their cell phone.
| | • | 94% of text messages, even promotional ones, are opened immediately.
| | • | The average person with a facebook profile spends at least 55 minutes on the site each day.
|  Veer's creative team has released their favorite fonts of 2010. I just love ornamental (shown below) and hope there's a time I can use it on a job. See which ones you love the most at Veer's website.


From the Gap logo redesign fail, design-inspired gravestones, children's bedrooms to the history of London, Creative Review rounds up the ten most popular stories on the Creative Review website for 2010.

The Dieline has posted its Top 100 Package Designs for 2010 - so many fabulous approaches to making everyday products as well as luxury brands even more attractive to consumers through their package. See the entire list of picks here
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Here are samples of out of the box thinking for business cards - a most basic and daily-used marketing tool that is often left to be mundane. These examples show how powerful it can be: One card for a hairstylist and one for a psychologist that used a play on the phrase "reboot". You know the saying: Birds of a Feather Flock Together! A few of my creative collaborators.
Inked Design Jane Harrison Designer Creative Director/Copywriter
Randy Smith Chris McEniry Photographer Photographer
David Waters Drive New Media PR, video Web Development social media

Came across a good resource site lately called DesignMoo that features high quality design freebies. Who couldn't use freebies these days? Good for keeping on the "check it out" list. They're on twitter, too.
 A site I visit OFTEN is imprint - the motherload of well written articles on branding, design thinking, packaging, photography, publication design, typography, web and more. Make it a required visit a couple times a week. |