Frank's Design Industry News

Design serves to stimulate our imagination...

noreply@blogger.com (JustbeFRANK) — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:35:00 PDT

From the Cool Hunter transportation file... Think back 70 or 75 years to a time when design began to break away from the traditional and elaborate rationalism that had ensued for hundreds of...

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Toronto Job Alert - Web Architect – User Interface - WSIB

noreply@blogger.com (JustbeFRANK) — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:14:00 PST

Any Web Architects out there looking for a great (government agency) job downtown Toronto (Front and Simcoe) with a secure future and a nice, stable paycheque? Web Architect – User...

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Alternative Design event in Toronto : Come up to my Room...

noreply@blogger.com (JustbeFRANK) — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 05:10:00 PST

COME UP TO MY ROOM is the Gladstone Hotel’s annual alternative design event. CUTMR invites artists and designers to show us what goes on inside their heads. Coming together in dialogue and...

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TIDF: Toronto International Design Festival

noreply@blogger.com (JustbeFRANK) — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:48:00 PST

TIDF is a new festival sponsored by Audi, one of our personal favourite design companies and makers of some very fine German automobiles: and another icon of modern design, Rado Switzerland, who is...

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Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre : Design for the Greater Good

noreply@blogger.com (JustbeFRANK) — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:21:00 PST

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario This is a site design and execution project that FRANK had the opportunity to submit a proposal and pitch on but despite being shortlisted to...

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beta testing the feedburner

noreply@blogger.com (JustbeFRANK) — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:38:00 PST

The pace of change is rapid and all consuming. In order to be out there on the edge of things, you have to be willing to try and test new things all of the time, and quickly sift through and...

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Never underestimate the social media value of the little black dress

noreply@blogger.com (JustbeFRANK) — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 08:18:00 PST

The MTO-W Pageant 2010, originally uploaded by roberrific. This is a photo from the Miss Teen Ontario - World (MTC-W) pageant, which is a popular event and a prelude to The Search for Miss Teen...

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Social Media is the new black

noreply@blogger.com (JustbeFRANK) — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:59:00 PST

In the course of a day, someone inevitably calls or e-mails to cancel a meeting, someone else misses a phone call, fails to deliver something on time, a project gets delayed and you find yourself...

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Three Reasons why Social Media is still a Tough Sell

noreply@blogger.com (JustbeFRANK) — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:28:00 PST

While there are many nimble and progressive organizations tapping in to the power of social media, some of the larger organizations move much slower to embrace change. Big companies have moved...

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Happy Birthday Online Advertising!

noreply@blogger.com (JustbeFRANK) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:39:00 PDT

The Banner Campaign that Started a $24 billion Business Excerpt from an article posted by Frank D'Angelo on 10.26.09 in Advertising Age, We have come a long way...

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Can you explain that for me one more time please?

noreply@blogger.com (JustbeFRANK) — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 08:45:00 PDT

If there is one lesson I have learned the hard way throughout all of 2009, is that our world and our lives have become increasing more complex and continues to become more and more so with each new...

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Social Media meets Miss Teen Canada-World

noreply@blogger.com (JustbeFRANK) — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 07:53:00 PDT

World class blogger and Social Media Expert, Rob Campbell (SmoJoe) of Lenzr fame prepares Miss Teen Canada-World for the ups and downs of fame in the Social Media space. One Wednesday Aug 19th...

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Miss Teen Canada-World amasses blog squad

noreply@blogger.com (JustbeFRANK) — Tue, 26 May 2009 09:33:00 PDT

Toronto, May 21, 2009 FRANK just launched a new website for Miss Teen Canada-World and engaged an army of young women to blog about it. In conjunction with Encourse Communications and DKPR public...

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The first true Internet inauguration

noreply@blogger.com (JustbeFRANK) — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 07:38:00 PST

Social networks are deluged as millions around the world take in the ceremony online by MATT HARTLEY From Wednesday's Globe and Mail January 21, 2009 at 4:27 AM EST Just as Mr. Obama's...

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Here's What Comes next...

noreply@blogger.com (JustbeFRANK) — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:58:00 PST

Putting the power of mass media back into the hands of the masses... From the Huffington Post... 12,000 people who participated in Ariana Huffington's "Off TheBus during campaign 08" should be...

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Global Recession Looms—Obstacle or Opportunity?

noreply@blogger.com (JustbeFRANK) — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 08:35:00 PDT

It all depends on how you look at it. Its in the news, on TV, on the radio, here on the web, you’ve read the papers – From The Globe and Mail to the New York Times or your own local newspapers,...

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Cool Tools

noreply@blogger.com (djla) — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 12:15:00 PDT

Coghead allows you to build applications easily without hardware to buy or software to install. They provide pre-built applications or build and maintain your own without complicated coding. Still in...

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Web 2.0 - the new social media is alive and well

noreply@blogger.com (JustbeFRANK) — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 14:21:00 PST

The new culture on the Web is all about consumer creation; it's composed of things like the nearly 30 million blogs out there and the 70 million photos available on Flickr. With a click of the mouse,...

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Apple Speaker iPod-Worthy

noreply@blogger.com (Paul) — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 04:10:00 PST

Apple was late in entering the speaker accessory market for its overwhelmingly dominant digital music player. But after third-party iPod speaker systems started showing up on the shelves of Wal-Mart...

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Microsoft Unveils Origami

noreply@blogger.com (Paul) — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 03:57:00 PST

The mysterious Origami project is a mystery no longer: It's a paperback-book-size computer that runs Windows XP. Redmond is betting that you on-the-go types will flock to it like bees to honey. Read...

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Mac Attack a Load of Crap?

noreply@blogger.com (Paul) — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 08:09:00 PST

All the Mac viruses and security holes in the news are overblown. They're news only because of their novelty, not the threat they pose. Commentary by Leander Kahney. Read on...Design functions to...

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'First Apple virus'

noreply@blogger.com (lherb) — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 08:32:00 PST

A computer virus, thought to be the first to attack Apple’s Mac OS X operating system, has been identified by internet security companies. Read on...Design functions to organize, clarify, persuade,...

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Real-time Train on Google Maps

noreply@blogger.com (lherb) — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 08:59:00 PST

Mackers' Dartmaps is a great example of a real-time application making use of Google Maps. The DART is frequent train service in Dublin, Ireland. Very cool...Design functions to organize, clarify,...

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Apple Unveils New 1GB iPod nano

noreply@blogger.com (Paul) — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 05:54:00 PST

Nice! Apple Introduces a new 1GB iPod nano for just $179 that offers the same features as the 2GB and 4GB iPod nano models and holds up to 240 songs or 15,000 photos Find out more...Design functions...

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How to become a customer evangelism evangelist

noreply@blogger.com (Paul) — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 19:17:00 PST

So you're a true believer in customer evangelism, but how do you sell it interally at a big company? Here's five tips to help you make it happen. Get the whole story...Design functions to organize,...

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