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Is your brand built on a solid, powerful, copy-ready messaging framework?

Business Strategy & Planning, Uncategorized / By bkadmin

What do your clients believe about your company or product? How hard is it to develop consistent, impactful marketing content? Is that process confusing and stressful? What about your brand promise or positioning statement? Does everyone at your company know and understand your core message and is it resonating with your target audience? If you …

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The bk ‘We Care’ Campaign Launches for 2016

bk Opinions, Getting Ecofriendly, Social Media, Uncategorized / By Eric Hirschhorn

I know, I know. The year just ended and you were barraged with social media messages about holiday charitable support from seemingly every company in the U.S. Holiday charitable support now seems as ubiquitous to the holiday season as “Holiday Sales Events” (kill me). At that time of year we, bloomfield knoble (bk), may appear to …

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Government agencies are hurting themselves and their mission

Uncategorized / By Eric Hirschhorn

Guessing games are not fun to me. Especially when everything is riding on choosing the right answer. For too many local, state and federal agencies that bloomfield knoble (bk) has dedicated its resources to assisting, they are playing a dangerous game that only hurts their outreach mission. This is not done intentionally. Most of the leaders …

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We have our Oculi on the rifts coming in 2016

Uncategorized / By Eric Hirschhorn

Was it Erik the Red that said, “the times they are a changin’ so let’s go see if we can find us some Green/Iceland?” No. I just wanted to make that reference in my blog to win a bet. Now, here is what bloomfield knoble (bk) has been studying the last few months, as we …

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“Build On” Animation – After Effects Tutorial

Uncategorized / By Andy Edwards

Check out this video tutorial about the “build on” animation technique that has become very popular in the motion graphics realm of design. To see this technique applied on a much larger scale, take a look at the promotional video bloomfield knoble created for the HOME by Fannie Mae™ application here. Related articles About Graphics + …

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"Build On" Animation – After Effects Tutorial

Uncategorized / By Andy Edwards

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For Too Many Farmers, American Serfdom Is Alive and Well

bk Opinions, Uncategorized / By Eric Hirschhorn

Chicken farmers are under the thumb of an evil poultry empire. Want to read this blog? Well, you can’t . . . unless you first read these backgrounders and references: From the Huffington Post From SustainableAgriculture.com From the website of Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur From Poynter It is my personal opinion, and not that of the representative …

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Mission: Accomplished!

Uncategorized / By Andy Edwards

At bloomfield knoble, we sometimes find ourselves a little in over our heads when it comes to extracurricular activities. There’s the local bowling league we joined, half-expecting the “season” to be a quick six weeks or so—it was nine…months…long. Then there’s the friendly little afternoon barbecue cook-off we decided to compete in, which turned out …

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How to Style The Twitter API

Uncategorized / By bkadmin

Twitter has been a huge pain for designers for the past few years. Styling anything in their API is constantly a source of frustration and agony. With the help of Harry Hopkins we have worked up an easy-to-use solution that can work with any embedded widget. The first thing you will want to do is to …

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Motion V2: a Motion Graphics Must-Have

Uncategorized / By Andy Edwards

In beginning the discussion on useful tools to help maximize the efficiency of your design workflow, I touched on the concept of utilizing plug-ins to do most of the heavy lifting. The same is true when developing motion graphics; plug-ins greatly assist with the animation process. Whether it’s a lengthy sequence or a quick animation, …

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