Miscellaneous

They say all good things must come to an end, friends, and as it turns out, that time has come for Nyman Ink. After countless newsletters, websites, brochures and fundraising campaigns (not to mention all the other stuff we’ve done), more than 60 awards and a full 22 years in business, we’re creatively exhausted and ready for a break. Two decades is a long time to keep going at full speed, and while we’ve loved every minute of it, we think it’s time to give it a rest.

Nyman Ink’s doors will officially close on Friday, August 31, 2012. In the meantime, we’ll be wrapping up our final projects and tying up loose ends.

But, fear not. We don’t plan to leave you high and dry. Though our physical office will be no more, our website, www.nymanink.com, will remain up and running to allow you to keep accessing all of our free resources, from whitepapers to blog posts. And though we’re getting out the design and marketing biz, we know you’ll still need great marketing professionals to help you with your future communications needs. With that in mind, Judy Nyman, our founder and fearless leader, will also remain available in case you need a referral or have any questions. When the doors close, Judy will be reachable via email at jnyman [at] nymanink [dot] com and by phone at 416-587-5847.

We sincerely thank you for 22 wonderful years of business, friendship and referrals. We don’t know where we’ll end up next, but we wish you all the best of luck with your future businesses, ventures and plans.

It's been grand.

Sincerely,

Judy Nyman, Bonnie Jackson, Nicola McHughen, Jen Selk, Scott Hamel

The Team at Nyman Ink

P.S. For the time being, our blog, website and social media accounts will remain available online, but we will not be updating them.

Infographics are neat. They're in. And lately, they're everywhere. But they've never been particularly easy to create. Even if you are a designer, or have access to one, a good infographic requires both a great idea and solid design skills to produce. Or at least, it did. Now, with the emergence of a couple of DIY infographic tools, fun and informative infographics are becoming something you might be able to create yourself, in no time at all.

Saw this great infographic on Galleycat this morning and thought it would be fun to share.

If you turned on the news any time this past week, you probably heard that Joss Whedon's comic book film "The Avengers" opened with record-breaking numbers this past weekend. In fact, the film raked in approximately $200 million in its first couple of days on screen (smashing the record of $169 million taken in by "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" on its opening weekend last summer). As such, I've got "The Avengers" on the brain. And with that in mind, I wanted to share with you a little bit of design that fits in with the comic book theme.

Changes are afoot here at Nyman Ink and we have both sad and happy news to share with you.

Saw this fun graphic from CMYBacon the other day and wanted to share.

Every day, a photograph is used without the photographer's consent.

This is the sentiment behind a new advertising campaign put out by the Union des Photographes Professionnels, a French group that represents pro shutterbugs.

The expression "it's so easy a monkey could do it" has been around for a long time and it's been twisted, reworded and reworked so often, for so many different purposes, it seems to have gone right past cliché onto the other side, where, strangely, it's become cool again.

The first time I heard reference to "the cloud," I was immediately dismissive. It was, I guessed, just another marketing term, designed to make something technological sound like something magical ─ designed, in other words, to make me buy something.

Turns out I was wrong. At least partly. As "the cloud" slipped more and more into our collective consciousness, I decided I ought to try and understand it and how it might be used.

I decided to blog today about The London International Creative Competition (LICC) for a number of different reasons. First off, you have to love a contest whose main ingredient is creativity. The LICC is open to just about anyone, doing anything creative, anywhere. You've got to appreciate that sort of accessibility. It invites passionate artists, regardless of experience or nationality, to submit work. (By the way, when I say London, I mean the city in England, not the one in Ontario.)