Hi, I’m Matt Balara.I solve design problems with my head.

Haven’t heard of crowdspring yet? They call themselves a “Global marketplace for logo design, business card design, graphic design and website design”. It works like this: if you need a logo for your startup you post a brief on the site,…

Now I know for certain that I’m just too old (or old-fashioned) for this social-networky friendy microbloggy stuff. Andrew Baron, Rocketboom founder, is selling his Twitter account, and his more than 1,600 followers on ebay (where else?). If we take this seriously,…

What’s the use of having a blog if you don’t use it to shamelessly promote yourself and leverage your audience to increase your fame and fortune?

I’ve submitted 2 photos to JPG magazine. If you’re interested in photography and don’t know…

In the nine and a half years I’ve been in Germany, I’ve given the German telephone company, Telekom, a shitload of money. Regardless of this fact, I have never managed to speak to a living, breathing, human Telekom employee in…

The whole automatic, context-sensitive advertising thing has made quite a few people quite a lot of money over the last few years. And for the user, it’s sometimes surprisingly useful. Often it’s just ignored. Occasionally, it’s an absolute disaster.

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