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Erickson Stock is a boutique stock photography house and home to over 70,000 images and 15,000 video clips available for commercial licensing. Founded by award-winning commercial director Jim Erickson, Erickson Stock is a unique and exclusive collection of content created by one photographer and his team. A great source for Emotional Lifestyle and Business Photography […]

Sappi’s new educational site, POP, is intended for marketers, creatives, designers and printers looking to innovate in their categories. The company’s marketing leadership, insights and analysis “now have one convenient online home” and will be updated regularly with case studies, industry trends and insights, paper inspiration, free resources, and more. Explains Patti Groh, director of marketing communications, Sappi North America. […]

Climbing a career ladder can be challenging and exciting. But, as we work for better opportunities, leadership roles and financial rewards, many of us are also questioning what advancement means, and wondering what a satisfying career looks like. Is a traditional path enough, or is it possible find real meaning in work and make a […]

Every year, Shutterstock customers across the world make billions of searches for images, footage, and music, their data and creative teams analyze this search and download data to discover the biggest year-over-year changes, and with the information gathered – plus expert knowledge from content, design, video, and music teams – the company identifies the trends that will continue to grow throughout […]

By Diane Domeyer, Executive Director, The Creative Group, a specialized staffing service placing interactive, design, marketing, advertising and public relations professionals with a variety of firms. There can be no innovation without risk-taking. It’s part of the bargain. But when it comes to taking chances with digital marketing initiatives, 19 percent of the advertising and […]

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Erickson Stock is the premier source for high-quality, emotional lifestyle stock photos and video footage. With collections including seniors, business, travel, healthcare, family and many more, the company has countless ways to tell your story, through stills or video. Erickson Stock is the work of renowned motion and still photographer Jim Erickson. For decades, Jim and his teams have generated thousands of […]

First, a qualification. The most popular pages and features on gdusa.com are our competition winners galleries such as the new American Graphic Design Awards showcase and our current contests open for entries such as the American Package Design Awards; our annual profiles of newsmakers and influencers such as People To Watch and Educators To Watch; and our trend and […]

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Design will play an increasingly prominent role in American political life in the years ahead — a trend that stands to give women candidates, in particular, a competitive edge — says Lesley Stordahl, Creative Director at branding agency CBX.  “Designers and design agencies have a lot to contribute to politics and to nonprofit organizations in terms of […]

Guest Blogpost by Corina Ludwig, President, FunctionFox about how to wrap up the old year and start the new one right with a free demo and deep holiday discounts on North America’s number one ranked web-based timesheet and project management software. The end of the year is a time to reflect on the past 12 months, […]

Scott Braut, Head of Content, Adobe, originally authored this post for the Adobe Blog on 11/20/17. Scott is a well-known leader in the content space, with over 20 years of experience in content licensing, product development, eCommerce, and digital media. In his current role, Scott leads how Adobe acquires content through various partnerships and business development.  With 2018 […]

By Diane Domeyer, Executive Director, The Creative Group, a specialized staffing service placing interactive, design, marketing, advertising and public relations professionals with a variety of firms. As a design professional, you know all too well the importance of keeping your creative skills razor sharp and staying ahead of color, typography and user experience preferences. But […]

By Jay Adams, assistant professor in advertising at the Robertson School of Media and Culture at Virginia Commonwealth University. One of the worst feelings as an advertising professional or student is to discover your ground breaking idea is already out there in the industry. Solving a brand’s business problem with a unique creative campaign is […]

Sappi North America has named ten recipients of its 18th annual Ideas that Matter grant program, where financial support is given to designers who create print integrated projects to maximize social impact. The ten projects selected this year highlight how design and creativity can help solve prominent social issues. Through communication projects and campaigns using paper and […]

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Interbrand has named Apple, Google and Microsoft as the three most valuable brands in its 2017 Best Global Brands ranking, with technology as the dominant sector. Now in its 18th year, the report’s theme is Growth in a Changing World, and examines three key components: People, Technology and Brands. For five consecutive years, Apple and […]

By Julie Anixter, Executive Director at AIGA Before designers can plot a direction for their careers, they have to understand the myriad opportunities available to them. The domains of design are as varied as the applied skill sets. You might be designing for a page one day and for an enterprise or service experience the […]

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Amazon, GEICO, Tesla, Uber Among Best Performers Band-Aid has been named the healthiest brand in the new YouGov BrandIndex survey. The rankings for July 2016 through June 2017 measure overall brand health, which takes into account consumers’ perceptions of a brand’s quality, value, impression, satisfaction, reputation and whether they would recommend the brand to others. Amazon placed second, followed by […]