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Design’s Impact on Business

HOW Do Designers Arrive at Pricing? MSLK and Spark at The HOW MYOB Conference

HOW Do Designers Arrive at Pricing? MSLK and Spark at The HOW MYOB Conference

People love meeting graphic designers. Whenever I meet someone at a party or a prospective client at a meeting — nine times out of ten, it's a game of twenty...
How Pattern Recognition Can Help Your Unique Brand Positioning

How Pattern Recognition Can Help Your Unique Brand Positioning

Have you ever worked on bringing a product to market that was based on a formulation, product, or system that is already successful in the market? Almost everyone has. Market...
Social Media Content Strategies, What to Post Where, and Why?

Social Media Content Strategies, What to Post Where, and Why?

As MSLK digs deeper into the world of social media campaigns, it seems that time and time again we are discovering our clients have the same challenges. Small companies see...
MSLK’s Commentary on the 2010 ID Annual Design Review

MSLK’s Commentary on the 2010 ID Annual Design Review

For over 55 years, the I.D. Annual Design Review has recognized the best in graphic, environmental, product, and furniture design. We are very proud that MSLK’s own Sheri L Koetting...
Burt’s Bees Skincare Installations Stop Consumers Dead in Their Tracks

Burt’s Bees Skincare Installations Stop Consumers Dead in Their Tracks

If you're a marketer, you've probably thrown around those ubiquitous terms, push and pull marketing. The marketplace has seen a major paradigm shift from pushing products onto consumers, to pulling...
Why Proctor & Gamble’s New Sugarcane Packaging Really Matters

Why Proctor & Gamble’s New Sugarcane Packaging Really Matters

Proctor and Gamble unveiled last week a renewable sugarcane based alternative to plastic that will be implemented on their Pantene Pro-V, CoverGirl, and international Max Factor product lines over the next...
There’s Nothing Quite Like a Piece of Paper

There’s Nothing Quite Like a Piece of Paper

  httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tE4lqYzS2m0 In today's multi-media extravaganza, it's hard to get anyone exited about one of the world's oldest mediums, paper. However we at MSLK don't think that paper has lost...
William Geddes: A 360° Look at Photographer Constantly Redefining Life + Style

William Geddes: A 360° Look at Photographer Constantly Redefining Life + Style

Some projects we're asked to work on involve rethinking everything. Whatever was there before needs to go. Get rid of it — and fast. Yet, others are more subtle. They...
Ad Trends: Advertisers Become Increasingly More Clever With QR Codes.

Ad Trends: Advertisers Become Increasingly More Clever With QR Codes.

A new trend in advertising has hit the streets, though it's tough to say whether it'll catch. QR codes — a digital barcode common in Japan — are meant to...
Interbrand’s Favorable Review of Wigwam.com’s Web Experience

Interbrand’s Favorable Review of Wigwam.com’s Web Experience

Product manufacturers have a unique opportunity when presenting their brands and product lines online. Unless they have the privilege of running their own brick and mortar locations or a branded...