Entries from March 2009

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

New Forum Category

I have been following a thread on the forum regarding how best to set up a web site. I decided to add another category to the forum to cover such topics. The Internet is growing in importance and many target audiences, especially the younger generation, are Internet savvy. You need to participate. I look forward [...]

Monday, March 9th, 2009

Barbie gets temp tats!

This year, Barbie turned 50 years old. I just wanted to alert all of our readers who are in the tat industry, that Barbie now sports sticker tattoos, and even comes with wash-off temporary tattoos for her owner. This is causing quite a stir as tattoos are still largely associated with less than savory figures [...]

Thursday, March 5th, 2009

The Case for Malls

Well, after exploring the idea of operating a kiosk in a mall, I hope some of you will decide to give it a try. There are some wonderful advantages to being in the mall. The cost of operating a kiosk in a mall for a month is close to the same as it would be [...]

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

Tats themsleves are great for marketing

Hi everyone, Today I read an article in the New York Times about a 50 year old woman who is being paid to sport an ad on the back of her shaved head, and a few years back I heard about a guy who had a company logo actually tattooed on himself for a year.  [...]

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

Non-destructive Editing

I was surfing this morning through my favorite design blogs, when I stumbled onto this wonderful tutorial at gimp-tutorials.net. It’s a great tutorial, as are the tens of tutorials that I read every day, but this particular tutorial spurred me to write about one of the biggest boons to my design carreer – the concept [...]