AIGA Lunch & Learn – Writing for the Web: Fewer Words More Action
Olivia’s Thoughts: Fewer words, more action was the message for AIGA’s luncheon on web copy. Alice Williams from Hesketh, spoke about limiting the words on your website because when there are less words the visitor spends more time at your site. Those who aren’t designers tend to try and put as many words as possible ...
How to Make Your Product Famous!
First, you must have a product that you know people will go for. Second, make a video that is bound to go viral. Dollar Shave Club of California has done just that. With a deal that is sure to capture people’s attention, they needed to ensure that people would hear about them. And what better ...
AIGA Lunch+Learn: Wear Your Selling Hat with Confidence
Kathy’s Thoughts Bradley, Olivia, and I were able to make another great Lunch+Learn session from AIGA Raleigh and this time I was determined to bring the Canon 5D. I love my iPhone 4S but Sitti’s great conference cellar just doesn’t have enough lighting for a phone camera without utilizing a flash. The topic this time ...
AIGA LUNCH + LEARN: A WEB DESIGN TOOLKIT
In a career that requires you to be a creative problem solver, it’s always good to be able to step out and breathe a little bit. Yesterday I had the pleasure of attending another local AIGA event with a co-worker during normal work hours. It was great to be able to back away from the ...
MOTION ACTIVATED SCREENS: IN STORES NOW
It’s no shocker that advertisers are trying to find new ways to market their products. With so many different media outlets how can you guarantee consumers will buy your product on the spot? Well there’s no guarantee, but what if the consumer views a product’s commercial inside the store on the same shelf as the ...
THREE MORE TELLY AWARDS!
This just in: the online community has voted – Burning Oak Studios won three more Telly Awards for People’s Choice! Thanks to you voting, all of Burning Oak’s entries won an award. You can watch all of the videos here! Telly Tube
BURNING OAK WINS TELLY
Burning Oak Studios is now the proud winner of a 2011 Bronze Telly Award for Online Video! BOS’ Paris French Easel video was viewed by judges and the online community, along with thousands of other entries on the Telly Awards YouTube channel, and has been selected to receive a 2011 Telly Award. The Telly Awards ...
3 THE HARD WAY COMES TO RALEIGH TONIGHT!
Mission Valley Cinema will host a special one-time screening of the film 3 The Hard Way tonight, Thursday June 2. The film features 3 local artists – Paul Friedrich, Sean Kernick and George Le Chevallier. The documentary depicts the creation of these works and the artists’ journey. The idea was simple. Each artist started with ...
NAB SHOW 2011
This was Burning Oak Studios’ third year in a row getting to visit the NAB Show in Las Vegas, and we saw an ample amount of impressive technology in the multimedia production field. The convention is overwhelming to say the least, housing booths for industry leaders like Canon, JVC, Panasonic, Sony, Dolby, Adobe, Red, Autodesk, ...
David C. Baker – AIGA Design Business Lecture
We recently had the pleasure of attending another local AIGA sponsored event on NCSU’s campus. This event was yet another in the Design & Business lecture series, and David C. Baker of ReCourses.com was the speaker. Though the topic was on designer-client relationships in a down economy, I feel like we walked away from this ...
Photoshop Tutorials – Simple HDR with One Camera Raw Image
Greetings All, Today I’d like to share with you a simple technique using a camera raw image. Normally people combine 3 (or more) images of varying exposures to get the HDR (high dynamic range) toning you see in many photographers’ works. I’m going to show you how to simulate this type of toning with a ...
ARTSEE LIVE: Wolf Kahn
Greetings readers, We have been working with the guys at artsee magazine since this summer producing their video content, and today we wanted to share some photos from our most recent production with them. We had the pleasure of travelling to Charlotte, NC with artsee to shoot another episode of Artsee Live. This time it ...