Newport Beach Film Festival Italian Spotlight Brochures

Newport Beach Film Festival European Spotlight

The Newport Beach Film Festival European Spotlight had us join them as official print sponsor for their festival night and gala.

Newport Beach Film Festival Australian Spotlight

Newport Beach Film Festival Pacific Rim Spotlight

We’re sponsoring the Newport Beach Film Festival Pacific Rim Spotlight by putting together beautiful brochures to compliment their event, check them out!

Newport Beach Film Festival Irish Spotlight

Newport Beach Film Festival Irish Spotlight

Working with the #NBFF every year has been a privilege, as a way for us to help celebrate the arts as well as giving back to our local community in Denver and Costa Mesa. For the Newport Beach Film Festival Irish Spotlight we’ve put together beautiful brochures to compliment their event, check them out!

Happy Thanksgiving 2015

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving 2015

From our family to yours, we hope everyone has a Happy Thanksgiving!

Enjoy the food, friends, and festivities.

Google Maps Creative Made

50 Online Directories for Local SEO

Our Top 50 Online Local Business Directories for Local SEO

If you’re looking for a great way to increase your website’s Search Engine Ranking, while also increasing your customer flow, a good start includes getting your business listing into as many online local business directories as possible. Not all of them will have “follow” links to your website, but they will help customers find your business, and do help reinforce your viability with search engines. At a minimum, these are the 50 directories we’d recommend you get listed with!

  1. Google
  2. Bing
  3. Yahoo!
  4. Yelp
  5. Facebook
  6. Better Business Bureau
  7. Angie’s List
  8. Merchant Circle
  9. LinkedIn
  10. YP.com
  11. Whitepages
  12. Superpages.com
  13. Yellowbook
  14. CitySearch
  15. MapQuest/Yext
  16. Local.com
  17. Foursquare
  18. CitySlick
  19. USDirectory.com
  20. Dex Media
  21. BizJournals.com
  22. TeleAtlas
  23. Discover Our Town
  24. EZ Local
  25. Kudzu
  26. CityVoter
  27. Manta
  28. UsCity
  29. Advice Local
  30. InfoUSA
  31. Infignos
  32. Get Fave
  33. My Huckleberry
  34. Yellowee
  35. MojoPages
  36. Brownbook
  37. Magic Yellow
  38. CitySquares
  39. Map Creator
  40. Judy’s Book 
  41. TripAdvisor
  42. Thumbtack
  43. YellowPagesGoesGreen.org
  44. Home Advisor
  45. ShowMeLocal
  46. ChamberofCommerce.com
  47. Yellowbot
  48. Hotfrog
  49. Brownbook
  50. InsiderPages
Small Business Expo 2015

Join Us Thursday Nov. 5th at the Small Business Expo

Join us for a How To Demo on SEO for Small Business presented by CreativeMade™

SEO Presentation
Photoshop 3D Printing

Adobe brings 3D Printing to Photoshop

We’re getting closer to the world of 3D Printing! The latest update from Adobe gives us more capabilities in Photoshop CC for 3D printing design and application – as printers from MakerBot and others become more affordable and mainstream.

Not only that, but if you don’t have a 3D printer, Adobe has made it easy to use SketchFab and other online solutions to share your printable models – so you can order your 3D printed objects from vendors.

Read more on C|net – http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-3513_7-57617219/adobe-brings-3d-printing-to-photoshop-cc/

Google Report by Sergey Brin, Lawrence Page

The College Report That Started Google

Read the original report on Google by Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page – the school project at Stanford University that began the Search Engine mecca you know today.

This amazing article, a shorter version of their entire project, is still original and unedited.

Amazing to consider that Google originally contained a database of 24 million pages, on 109gb of disk space. By comparison, most home computers now come with 500gb of disk space!

Today, it’s reported that Google contains an index of over 45 billion pages! [source]

Though Google has changed a lot since then, if you’re interested in the base of how they pioneered the Search Engine industry, this is a great read. If you’re into Social Media, Page Rank, how to get better ranking in Google, or Search Engine Optimization – this is a necessary read!

Web Development Video

The Most Inspiring History of the Internet

Web Development Video

 

We Built This World Wide Web. Look at what we’ve accomplished. To you, it’s just web development. Creating websites. Search Engines. Something about hashtags and cat photos.

To us, it is a land of opportunity. But it wasn’t always this way. From the evolution of generation after generation. Text Pages to Streaming Video. Geocities to Gmail. The internet in your pocket. Yes, time’s have changed. But there was no template. Web developers across the globe paved the way, and for this, we salute you.

This video will inspire you. If you work in web design, hold your head high. 

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Creative Made Video

9 Minute Graduate Speech That’s Brilliant

Creative Made VideoIf you watch one thing today, watch this. “This is Water” is an animation short from the graduate speech by David Foster Wallace, an award winning American novelist. It might put your world in perspective, but further the video artfully illustrates the speech in perfect harmony, bringing the words to life as 9 minutes of your life blissfully gain meaning.

The speech is brilliant, but what makes the video a success? Creative animations combined with typography of a certain hand drawn looking slab serif font. This creates branding through the video, with the typography helping set the mood and keeping focus on the meaning of the words, while still being artful in presentation.

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