When your client is still confused as to how to use twitter for marketing and pr.

Or needs to know what their social media strategy is.

Oh snarkeynet…

Definitely worth a read: Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman’s Newsweek article on creativity in America.

Try and find a school that isn’t scraping up pocket change to teach art, music, or anything that isn’t math and science. All these things are important, but in the end where we’re slipping is the application toward “production of something original and useful”. Ingenuity has always been our country’s key asset. So it’s scary when you read: “For two decades, our nation’s creativity scores have been plummeting – kids’ scores worst of all.”

But it’s encouraging to read: “New research shows how to fix it.”

We’re in. If you are too, here’s what to do:

Read the article “The Creativity Crisis” here: http://www.newsweek.com/2010/07/10/the-creativity-crisis.html

Learn how to foster creativity and “Forget Brainstorming: here: http://www.newsweek.com/2010/07/12/forget-brainstorming.html

Get creative with your kids here: http://cts.vresp.com/c/?PoBronson/491a73be46/85ccdddb42/fe2de1273e

And hopefully, you all still have your award-winning FINE pencil packs from a couple years back laying around with the creative workbook to revisit…

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From Boing Boing.

Google announced that they are releasing high quality open source fonts in the Google Font Directory. Since these are open source you can even download the original font files yourself at the font code.google.com project.

Google has made it very easy to include these fonts into your page using the new Google Font API.

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That color you’ve chosen. It’s probably offending someone in Greece, boring someone in Africa, revolting someone in Singapore, and titillating someone in Mexico. Good luck with your global brand!

“At the heart of the matter is how to deliver a great experience to users no matter the technology or platform.”

Read on, oh wise ones

I want an iPad as much as the next designer, but this article makes it seem a little less appealing. Come on Apple, Baskerville for body copy? Marker Felt AGAIN?

a nice jQuery slideshow for background images. Demo here. (via @smashingmag)

An interesting essay by Frank Chimero on reading horizontally on the web. I for one wouldn’t mind putting the scrollbar to rest. (via Thinking for a Living)

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