Stephanie’s warm lentil salad paired perfectly with Joy’s presentation on maintaining brand identity across multiple platforms to make our third Lunch-n-Learn Thursday a hit.

Last week it was jQuery and BBQ chicken. In the third installment of our Lunch-n-Learn Thursdays—where one person prepares lunch for the entire Mightybytes crew with goods from the local farmer’s market while another readies a spiffy lecture on an educational topic of their choice—we covered design challenges that affect everyone (not just the art director) while feasting on some tasty legumes laced with all kinds of farmer’s market treats. We lunched! We learned! Here’s what went down.

Our final take (for now) on best design and coding practices for better email campaigns.

Part Four in a Series of Four

Wrapping up our four-part blog series, ‘Tips from the Experts at Emma’, we offer seven tips to improve the design and code of your email campaigns. Yes, our friends at Emma and other email service providers offer template stationery in an always-evolving variety of pre-built styles, but if you really want to drive success, custom design and coding is the way to go. Here are some ideas on how to build a better custom campaign.

Joy Burke has created her very first font, entitled “Spooners.” To help showcase her creation, she designed a sample poster for the upcoming Big Holiday Show featuring The Flaming Lips. The poster will be presented at the gallery opening this Friday for the “Punchcutters: Re-Inventing the Alphabet, Font Design Competition and Exhibition” presented by the STA (Society of Typographic Arts), and Spooners will later be available for purchase online, so stay tuned!