Category Archive: 'As seen in desktop magazine'

As Seen In Desktop Magazine

So what is with all the Desktop Posts?

It is looking like desktop magazine is dead, as of writing, it has had no new content added to the website or its social media channels in just over a year. So I decided I needed to archive all of my old articles from the desktop magazine website here before they take the website down. […]

As Seen In Desktop Magazine

Q&A: Mark Blondel, CD at Where There’s Smoke

Earlier this year whilst attending the Sydney Semi-Permanent conference, I was able to meet and chat with Mark Blondel from Where There’s Smoke, this is just a little Q&A he agreed to do with desktop. You might not know the Where There’s Smoke (WTS) name, but you will probably recognise some of their work. You can see their show reel on their website, and you would be surprised just what has come out of the WTS office on Sydney’s Northern Beaches.

As Seen In Desktop Magazine

Designer job descriptions – tongue-in-cheek look

The real meaning behind your job titles… A tongue-in-cheek description of the jobs within the studio or agency. Or perhaps they are a totally accurate depiction of what is in store for the unwary!

As Seen In Desktop Magazine

QR Codes – who’s using them?

Quick Response Codes: a great tool for sending additional information to a user. The drawback is that not everyone knows what they are, how to access them or like me, needs to be given a very compelling reason to get my phone out, fire up the QR Code scanner app and then scan the code.

The idea has plenty of potential in that it is not just an encoded URL link but can also entail a person’s contact details – scanning it adds user or company contact details into your address book on your phone.