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Christy Lebor
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Design

Branding 101 for Start-Ups

All you solo entrepreneurs out there: how much thought have you given to branding? None, you say? Well, put down those big ideas, business plans, tax forms, annual gross receipt estimates and census bureau demographic estimation documents and START READING THIS RIGHT NOW. I’ve created four successful startups based on this philosophy. You have no idea how important…

Design

Why a Short Italian Plumber Is a Household Name.

Raise your hand if you’ve played some version of Mario Brothers/Super Mario Brothers on multiple game consoles. Now, raise your hand if that number of game consoles is more than three. If you are in your forties and still live with your parents, raise your hand. We thought so. The brothers Mario are video game…

Design

3 More Reasons Your Label Is Boring to Customers.

People get bored easily. We know this because in the time it took us to write that last sentence, we got up for coffee, shot a few hoops, watched 13 YouTube cat videos and found three brand new places to scratch ourselves. (Who knew the roof of the mouth could itch?). Question, are people getting…

Design, More

Design School vs Work Experience.

Society is simply more comfortable when their surgeons, aerospace engineers and library scientists have earned a degree from an accredited university. However, work experience has value, too, and it’s certainly possible to learn valuable techniques from observation and association. If you were trapped on a desert island and found you suddenly experienced a brain hemorrhage…

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