Good eats.
Now that the Napa River Trail no longer blocks it with chunks of concrete and piles of rubble, we can once again reach the Napa General Store without too much trouble. Of course the giant parking structure and RIverFront complex are still in development, but finally one can have a nice meal on the [...]

Walmart has a shiny new logo! And well, not to put too fine a point on it, I think it blows.
Now I don’t want to step on any sensitive design toes here (I don’t even know who was commissioned to create this mark) but in my humble opinion it could have been better. It is [...]

Ever since they could drop a JPEG onto an HTML page, businesses have considered websites - and website design purely a technology-based solution. Because the website lives on a computer, business owners and managers naturally figured that someone who knows computers needed to be sourced to build it. The primary result of course was an [...]

We all went up to Portland to attend Peter and Cristina’s wedding. Tim, Eric and myself sampled in large quantities, the many and varied culinary and alcohol-based offerings of the area. Stands outs included Saucebox for happy hour and the Rialto for Bloody Mary’s - I mean “breakfast” - and Pool the next morning.
And here’s [...]

Big companies know how to launch, build, and maintain their brands. Small businesses? Not so much. Small business owners know they need to grow their business, but without an in-house “Global Brand Management and International Marketing Communications Department” they tend to be iffy on the details of how to actually do it.
The following tips have [...]