Salon Creative Group & Salon Interactive Studio

12/21/2017

Seas and Greetings, and Happy Solstice! Thank you for making 2017 brilliant and memorable!

May your new year be prosperous, filled with joy, love and peace.

10/05/2017

We love travel, does it show?

09/29/2015

Golden opportunities for the win! Bringing the best of print, web and interactivity to the palm of your hand—the result of a great client/agency collaboration! Congrats Holland America, we loved bringing your first app into the world—just look how far it's gone! Get your download links here: http://goo.gl/X1pols

07/03/2015

The 2016 app is in all the marketplaces, check out the iPad version here. Share with friends wanting to visit Alaska. A great info packed, interactive planning tool, feedback welcome!
New iPhone version, coming soon!
https://appsto.re/us/K-V35.i

01/14/2015

These are good! We can relate, can you?

We at DS come across a lot of memes, comics and artworks that offer a hilarious look into the life and mind of a graphic designer. So we thought, why not collate a few good ones into one cool post? Who knows, it might even drive some sense into an unreasonable client and make him/her […]

01/13/2015

Bold, fearless, curious, open...good words to describe . If you need to silence the voice that keeps saying "it's not perfect" take this class on CreativeLive

10/01/2014

Refreshing our own website with some recent work—would love to know your favorite of these four images, it will help decide how to order the home page rotators. Please comment with your fave... A, B, C, or D. Thanks!

07/25/2014

"The creative impulse always comes from within you. It is never outside of you. Ever. It can be like a nudge. Or an arrow shooting straight up through your core. Or a soft tap on your inner flesh, a sudden silent utterance from your heart, a sensuous swelling in your womb." Julie Daley

05/09/2014

The duo known as Dangerdust now have Twitter, Instagram and Behance accounts. It’s uncertain whether they will ever reveal their true identities (although they are known students of CCAD) or maybe they will remain masked graphic crusaders like Banksy. The only thing that is certain is that the world needs to see more art like this don't you think? Happy Friday, have a creative weekend!

Imgur is home to the web's most popular image content, curated in real time by a dedicated community through commenting, voting and sharing.

04/11/2014

Branding matters. When was the last time you made a connection to a computer virus, worm, trojan horse, bug, scam, hack or exploit? Odds are probably never, even if you were a victim, you most certainly don't remember what hit you. Kudos to the Finnish firm Codenomicon that's discovered the recent serious security flaw and started waving the red flag about it. This vulnerability needed some attention and is getting lots of it, and recall, thanks in part to some pretty effective branding, ideally suited for mass consumption—a compelling name and a cool logo. Have you heard of it? It's only 5 days old but I'll bet you have. More importantly, have you changed your passwords yet? http://heartbleed.com/

The Heartbleed Bug is a serious vulnerability in the popular OpenSSL cryptographic software library. This weakness allows stealing the information protected, under normal conditions, by the SSL/TLS encryption used to secure the Internet. SSL/TLS provides communication security and privacy over the I...

04/09/2014

85% of the people Brené Brown has interviewed said they remember shaming experiences in school that changed how they thought about themselves. Over half of those people said the experience was related to art. This is a HUGE problem, we're teaching our kids at a way to early age that the critic trumps the creator. "Creativity is the key to how things get from our heads to our hearts and hands" (BB) Valuing the creative PROCESS and the effort will drive excellence, innovation and growth, NOT whether the result meets the expectations of the critics! (LC)

04/02/2014

Creativity is the ability to see things that are not already there. Innovation comes from seeing what already exists in the world and putting things together in new and different ways. Our brain has a very strong tendency to see what we want to see and what we expect to see, but opportunities might be missed from too much logical thought—stretch your brain and move beyond the obvious.