Author: Connor Tomas O’Brien
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The Problem With Design Competitions
Dear Adelaide Fringe, Every year, you run a poster design competition to determine the visual branding of the next year’s festival. I understand why you might think this is a great idea: it’s inclusive, puts “professional designers” on the same level as the amateurs, is a bit of fun, and gets people chatting. From another standpoint,…
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What Real Readers Think about Ebooks, 2011 Edition →
Miriam Zolin on readers’ ideas of where the ‘sweet spot’ in ebook pricing might lie: [I]f you price your eBooks by offering a $30% discount on the print edition, you’re probably just making the eBook a little bit closer to what people really think they should be paying for a paperback, i.e. too expensive for an…
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The Rereaders Redesign
Project type: web design Client: therereaders.com What’s nifty about this project? The team behind The Rereaders, a popular literary and cultural podcast, were looking for a new web design that would be both memorable and super easy to navigate. Recognising that most listeners enjoy their podcasts on the go, I worked on a responsive design optimised…