by Carl Waldron | Mar 26, 2019 | Feature
I never thought I would enjoy being a design manager as much as I do now. Going from the lone wolf designer to the person delegating work and guiding the creative vision was a stark change. I went through a lot of internal debate the moment I was managing my first...
by Carl Waldron | Mar 25, 2019 | Feature
Building a successful startup with a middle of the road brand starts you on the back foot immediately. If your startup brand design doesn’t stand out from your competitor pool, if your differentiator(s) are obscure or non-existent, if your creative strategy is...
by Carl Waldron | Oct 5, 2018 | Feature
Update: Looks like Toys R Us is planning a come back to North America. Via IGN, the brand management company WHP Global aims to open new Toys R Us locations ahead of the 2021 holiday season. Maybe they will take some cues from this article. Original: As my wife and I...
by Carl Waldron | Aug 31, 2018 | Feature
The Arrowverse has done the Justice League better than the DCEU Justice League film was able to. DC’s mad rush to compete with the Marvel cinematic money-printing machine has left its major film properties unoriginal and poorly fleshed out. Batman, Superman and Wonder...
by Carl Waldron | Aug 31, 2018 | Feature
Wakanda is the most technologically advanced nation in the Marvel Universe. Yet its citizens suffer constant oppression at the hands of foreign invaders such as Namor, the Atlantean king. T’Challa, the Black Panther, splits his time between ruling Wakanda and being...
by Carl Waldron | Aug 24, 2018 | Feature
Creating a t-shirt brand from scratch is a fun way to explore silly ideas you didn’t know you wanted to build. For years I struggled with what simple idea could I turn into a line of clothing. The countless number of shirt design mockup filling old HDDs is...
by Carl Waldron | Aug 12, 2018 | Feature
Maybe its nostalgia, but I came up as a Web Designer, and I don’t see that title enough these days. Better yet, I don’t see a title that is as al-encompassing as Web Designer was. Today, many designers solely focus on very specific subsets of that...
by Carl Waldron | Jul 5, 2018 | Feature
Just don’t be stupid on what you DL and you’re fine. – PC Guru Sean That is valid advice in a day and age when being stupid is easy and celebrated. It was in direct response to a question I had about anti-virus software for my soon-to-be-built custom...
by Carl Waldron | Aug 11, 2017 | Feature
Adieu, Nathan Drake. We will miss your soggy half-tucks and granite grip. We bid a fond farewell to the man of a million cliff jumps and usher in a new(ish) set of treasure hunters to Uncharted, Chloe Frazer and Nadine Ross. The question now is how will the retirement...
by Carl Waldron | Aug 7, 2017 | Feature
Who doesn’t love Cersei? Manipulative, cunning, powerful, and unyielding, whenever she is on screen, you wince, just a tad. From her beginnings as Robert Baratheon‘s Queen to her rise to Ruler, we are always left wondering what terrible plot she plans to devise next....
