It has been quite the interesting year for Fool’s Gold recording artist, Danny Brown. After performing at just about every known festival across the country and touring several times around the United States and Europe, Danny Brown finally unveiled his third studio album, ‘Old‘, streaming free on Spotify September 30th and available on hard copy October 8th. The album was so …
This week I would like to feature a new small business in the city of East Lansing, Michigan that seems to be flourishing. Michigan Creative strives to support a creative, local economy and nothing says creative like the newest bar in town, Hopcat. According to their description, Hopcat was envisioned, designed, stocked and staffed with one mission in mind: to bring you …
For nearly three weeks every autumn Grand Rapids, Michigan is overtaken by ArtPrize, an international art competition unlike any other. Art installations sprawl through the entire city; murals cover walls of buildings, paintings adorn stores, restaurants, and banks, and sculptures pop up in parks and on sidewalks. The concept is simple; visitors are allowed to walk around the city and …
As a company with many part-time employees, Michigan Creative needed to find a way to organize ideas, thoughts, tasks, and to-do lists. It needed to be all in one place, easy to access, and easy to use. After doing some research, we came across an online system called Trello. Never heard of it before? Neither had we, but we are …
So, You Want to Make a Movie in Michigan? Well, I just think that’s a great idea! I think it was a better idea a few years ago, but there’s truly no sense dwelling on times past. Returning to the point Luke made last month, Michigan saw a drastic change in film incentives from 2010 to 2011 when the budget …
Typography does more than just communicate messages with words. While the actual content of the copy is the main means of communication, the typography of the copy can be just as significant. Typefaces, fonts, and positioning of letters and words are important elements of typography that allow you to convey emotional messages. Sans Serif & Serif Typefaces Typefaces are especially important. …
Hey guys, as you can see I am doing a two part blog on hashtagging. This week I wanted to just go ahead and jump right into this week’s topic of hashtags on social media sites. An interesting topic, eh? Well let’s start off by defining exactly what a “hashtag” is. The “hash” symbol looks like this #. A “hashtag” …
The value of an internship… I thought my blog today would be to give advice to college students and to say thanks to all of the interns that have worked for us at Michigan Creative, and who currently work for us now. What I always used to tell my high school students and what I tell our interns and young people …
Howdy All! Jack here. Finally blogging and loving every minute of it! Since this is my first blog, and might be just slightly overdue, I have a lot to cover. I will do my best to try and keep it brief. So first things first… What do I do at Michigan Creative? My answer: Depends. No not these… It depends on …
Hey guys, I am back at it again. I have a feeling you will be seeing me and my work a lot more. Thanks to everyone that tuned in to my last blog about internet fraud. I hope that you learned something new from it, or even became more interested in the topic to educate yourself. Before I get started on …
