Skateboard sequence. Rider Bradley E. Robinson. Photographer Luke Swenson.

With many platforms being consolidated, the killing off of the process is occurring, leaving room for lack of quality. Also in turn creating conditions for the hungry independent artist. A niche that many are fitting so well.

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As our resident amateur astronomer and space nerd, I wanted to punch a few holes in some tinfoil hats:

Look Close… The Eagle has landed!

It’s been said that local advertisement is “sold not bought.” And more often than not, when this happens, the point of purchasing marketing/advertising is defeated. Having seen this first hand, I could never put a word on it until recently. Part of this goes back to the local business not believing that marketing/advertising holds any value to its success. Some don’t even have a budget for such a thing, compared to a national brand that spends the majority of its budget on marketing/advertising and sees it as key to its success. (more…)

The biggest generation since the Baby Boomers, what’s so different about Generation Y and the ones to come? And why should anyone care?

Scrambling to strap itself to the next trend, big business is constantly on the heels of its consumers. Traditional suits, statistics, pie charts and bar graphs are the talk of board meetings attempting to pinpoint and label us as consumers, while new wave gidgets and gadgets fill our pockets.

For most Americans, the thought of someone taking tabs on our everyday habits would seem almost absurd. But believe it or not, creating nice little boxes with labels to go along with it is big business. Broken down generation by generation while being dissected even further, the demographics of a generation have unique characteristics that define who they are. And for marketing gurus alike, it’s getting to be tougher and tougher by the day to define a generation. (more…)

This graphic will potentially be the first ICT shirt released in an ongoing series with 4995 colthing.