What Inspires Us

As one of SmarterMedium’s designer, Adobe’s Digital Publishing Suite (DPS) has peaked my interest from the day it was released to the public. The possibilities are endless and you’re only limited by...

Can an iPad replace a second monitor on a designer’s desk?

For some, adapting to the change of working in a virtual environment can be an overwhelming task, riddled with problems and headache. However, here at SmarterMedium we don’t fear change, we actually...

Today Adobe is likely to announce something we have been testing for the past few weeks, Creative Cloud Team collaboration and file sharing.  Just as Office365 and SharePoint had provided a workflow...

One of the blogs we follow when we can is 37signals blog, now Basecamp. Our company’s project management is driven by their Basecamp project and it is good to keep an eye on what they are up to.

In March of 1989, Tim Berners-Lee of CERN wrote a paper of better retaining information lost by linking systems together.

Recently, SmarterMedium held its first office competition. To give you the whole back story…our office was built to look like an old barn with skylights throughout the ceiling. As the winter drew...

No one system, app or technology can provide the functionality and productivity that multiple systems can. But the time spent on linkages, transfers, and learning can make committing to one...

With the wind at your back, powered only by the wind, sailing is intuitive, easy to explain, and easily understood. Hoist a sail into the currents, and you can ride the breeze. Only on the turnabout...

One of our first purchases for the office was a Nest. The Honeywell it replaced was a sea of options, programming, and tools that for an HVAC expert would have been no problem. All the heating...

Linkages to the cloud are reaching a tipping point. We tend to notice more and more the devices that are left out these days. Our offices have converted to SharePoint and Creative Cloud for access to...

The dot.com door desk was the poster child for boot strap organization. A trip to home depot for two saw horses and a door slab and a desk was born.