Month: September 2018

Classical Music News Can Show Up In The Strangest Of Places

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While reading an article in the 9/12/18 edition of the Washington Post about South Korean military service evasion crime, I was surprised to see that topic intersect classical music. As an example, the article cited an attempt by 12 conservatory students to evade conscription.  This week, South Korea’s Military Manpower Administration said that a group of 12 college students studying classical music in Seoul tried to gain a huge amount of …

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Here’s Some Creative Design Inspiration To Recharge Your Week

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In a sea of stock photos and artist headshots, it’s always a treat to see a performing arts organization approach graphic design with an eye toward narrative. Case in point, the Adrian Symphony’s 2018/19 season artwork is a real standout. I reached out to the project’s creative director, Larry Williams from larrywilliamscreative.com, for some insight on how the project unfolded. A majority of my career was working at a content agency …

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Off To SUNY Fredonia

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I’m off to Fredonia, NY where I’ll be speaking to the students and members of the Ethos New Music Society about building a career without going broke and how to approach related challenges without letting them drain inspiration. Originally scheduled for last year, I had to cancel due to the flu and am very happy we were able to find a new time. The speaker program is part of the Ethos …

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A Good Way To Leverage A Microsite

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The LA Philharmonic recently launched a dedicated microsite for their Centennial Campaign (an endowment capitalization campaign) and it’s a good example for how to go about designing a purpose built microsite. Each page is comparatively short and contains big, obvious conversion targets (making an online donation). It’s a very nice mobile first design that clearly resists the urge to stuff a desktop heavy content approach into mobile layouts. If there’s one …

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Thanks To Your Terrific Response, The Star Trek Podcast Is Now Downloadable

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Thanks to everyone who took a moment to reach out with feedback about last Friday’s Music of Star Trek Podcast. Hands down, the most requested feature was to make the pilot episode downloadable and as of now, that’s exactly what you can do. Just look for the little download icon on the SoundCloud file. If SoundCloud isn’t your streaming thing, you can now listen via YouTube: The Really Exciting Part Given …

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