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		<title>Get Your Horse in the Race.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:44:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicholas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When your website doesn&#8217;t seem to be getting you the return on your investment that you had hoped, it is possible that your expectations were a little amiss. It is often said that a website is not a like the baseball diamond in Field of Dreams &#8211; you cannot simply &#8216;build it and they will come&#8217;. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wine and Design: The Brand Experience</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:54:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicholas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ If you've spent any time (five minutes would do) in a liquor store you will notice that many companies seem to take particular pride in the design of their bottle labels. But, as I found out on our mini-winery tour, there is more to a brand than a label.]]></description>
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		<title>Hiring a Designer: an analogy.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicholas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The story goes something like this (and is subject to the rules of Chinese Whispers, but the idea remains the same): Pablo Picasso is dining at a restaurant when a passer by recognizes him and asks the artist for a favor: a quick sketch. The aging Picasso finds some paper and a pencil and spends [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Do Awards Really Mean?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 16:24:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicholas</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[#ladygaga]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Bowie turned down the opportunity to be called Sir David Bowie in 2003. Perhaps he didn't want to change the lyrics to 'Sir Ziggy played guitar'...]]></description>
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		<title>Portable portable devices with portable content?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:50:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicholas</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[#smartphone #flash #portable]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Since when do we need one device that does absolutely everything? This comes down to expectations. If we stop thinking of a portable device as being the be all and end all, we won't worry about compatibility. ]]></description>
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		<title>iPhone, My Portable Office</title>
		<link>http://www.lifeimitatingdesign.com/lid/iphone-portable-office/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 08:53:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicholas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LiD]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[graphic design blog]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, I set out to see exactly how much I could do with my iPhone. One of the problems as a graphic designer going from a fully functioning laptop for portability to depending on an iPhone is the shortage of apps. That is, real apps. Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Transmit, Illustrator... Basically, everything design related.]]></description>
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		<title>Work and Football: Does Home Give You an Advantage?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:50:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicholas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LiD]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Players of individual sports still show that advantage, but not to the degree that team players do. Nevertheless, there is a difference.
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		<title>Theft is Theft is Theft</title>
		<link>http://www.lifeimitatingdesign.com/lid/theft-theft-theft/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 00:32:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicholas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LiD]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone loses things from time to time. A key for the garden shed; a receipt for a pair of shoes you meant to return; then lens cap off your camera when you&#8217;re on holiday. It sucks. But when somebody else TAKES something from you, it hurts more. The thought of some desperate nuisance deciding to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cut the Crap and Make Your Website ZIP!</title>
		<link>http://www.lifeimitatingdesign.com/lid/eye-spy-eye-website/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 19:12:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicholas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LiD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recommendations]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Your website needs a few cuts. Give it a trim and make it work for you!]]></description>
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		<title>Your Business is an Elephant.</title>
		<link>http://www.lifeimitatingdesign.com/lid/business-elephant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 18:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicholas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LiD]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ If you talk to a number of professionals about your business, each one will have a different bias towards a different aspect of your business. Some professionals will be more open minded than others, but you will still often hear emphasis placed on different aspects.]]></description>
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