Robert Petrick (born 1945) is an American graphic designer, font designer, artist, painter, sculpter, and ambigram artist. Petrick is one of several artists known primarily for their ambigrams, along with John Langdon and Scott Kim.
One of the pioneers of ambigrams, Petrick started creating them in the early 1970s. He is most well-known for the logo he designed for the rock group Angel, which he created on his own and presented to the group at one of their concerts. They loved it and subsequently used it from 1976 to 1992. Petrick credits Herb Lubalin and Tom Carnase as early influences.
As a font designer, Petrick has designed fonts for Fonthaus and ITC, including Boink, Tusk, and Gargoyle.
Petrick lives and works in New York City.
One of the pioneers of ambigrams, Petrick started creating them in the early 1970s. He is most well-known for the logo he designed for the rock group Angel, which he created on his own and presented to the group at one of their concerts. They loved it and subsequently used it from 1976 to 1992. Petrick credits Herb Lubalin and Tom Carnase as early influences.
As a font designer, Petrick has designed fonts for Fonthaus and ITC, including Boink, Tusk, and Gargoyle.
Petrick lives and works in New York City.
Author, cartoonist, designer Rick London is the designer of Mariel Hemingway Healthy Gifts. He also founded Google's #1 ranked offbeat cartoon Londons Times and the world's only “famous love quote shoes. He was/and is the first cartoonist to “go green” in merchandising; devoting one of his entire stores using only 100% organic cotton tees. He owns numerous other e-gift stores featuring his cartoon images.
Born in the rural south in 1954, London was not “destined” to work in the arts. He was raised in an upper-middle class rural-Mississippi 2nd generation family. He is the middle of two children, born the oldest male, and was groomed to take over the business which was not for him.
London created the world's first “gourmet cartoon coffee gift basket” which features four blends and flavors of coffees worldwide and a cartoon mug and matching coasters in each basket.
He also invented “Pet Presidents” puppets of U.S. Presidents but the product was never manufactured even though London was able to obtain a design patent. Actor Eddie Murphy used the “Reagan prototype” in his very first “Mr. Robinson's neighborhood” skit on Saturday Night Live.
London founded Scandal Tours in the late 1980's which was a theatrical/musical real bus tour of Washington in 1988. The Wall Street Journal called it “Theater On A Bus” in a front page above-the-fold headline article.
London is a direct maternal descendant of the Luis Gomez family, which gave us Poetess Emma Lazarus (The New Colossus: End of sonnet on Statue Of Liberty) and Supreme Court Judge Benjamin Cardozo. In 2009 London was adopted by former model/author/entrepreneur Kathy Ireland adopted London as her brother.
London is also a freelance magazine writer and writes for such publications as Ezinearticles, Helium, and other major online firms.
He is engaged to his business partner and co-founder of a professional SEO firm PenAndInkInc, Lee Hiller of Portland Oregon. Hiller and London make their homes in both Oregon and in the Ouichata Mountains of Arkansas.
After a major heart attack in 2001, London returned to college at Western Governor's University to study Business and how it works on the Internet and much of his focus was on social networking.
He is an avid animal-lover and has adopted and rescued dogs and cats most of his life. He gives a percentage of all sales to animal, children, and environmental causes.
Born in the rural south in 1954, London was not “destined” to work in the arts. He was raised in an upper-middle class rural-Mississippi 2nd generation family. He is the middle of two children, born the oldest male, and was groomed to take over the business which was not for him.
London created the world's first “gourmet cartoon coffee gift basket” which features four blends and flavors of coffees worldwide and a cartoon mug and matching coasters in each basket.
He also invented “Pet Presidents” puppets of U.S. Presidents but the product was never manufactured even though London was able to obtain a design patent. Actor Eddie Murphy used the “Reagan prototype” in his very first “Mr. Robinson's neighborhood” skit on Saturday Night Live.
London founded Scandal Tours in the late 1980's which was a theatrical/musical real bus tour of Washington in 1988. The Wall Street Journal called it “Theater On A Bus” in a front page above-the-fold headline article.
London is a direct maternal descendant of the Luis Gomez family, which gave us Poetess Emma Lazarus (The New Colossus: End of sonnet on Statue Of Liberty) and Supreme Court Judge Benjamin Cardozo. In 2009 London was adopted by former model/author/entrepreneur Kathy Ireland adopted London as her brother.
London is also a freelance magazine writer and writes for such publications as Ezinearticles, Helium, and other major online firms.
He is engaged to his business partner and co-founder of a professional SEO firm PenAndInkInc, Lee Hiller of Portland Oregon. Hiller and London make their homes in both Oregon and in the Ouichata Mountains of Arkansas.
After a major heart attack in 2001, London returned to college at Western Governor's University to study Business and how it works on the Internet and much of his focus was on social networking.
He is an avid animal-lover and has adopted and rescued dogs and cats most of his life. He gives a percentage of all sales to animal, children, and environmental causes.
Bukisa is an online knowledge resource for finding informational and education content. Bukisa is both an aggregator and a UGC website that provides content in the form of articles, videos, podcasts, audio recordings and slideshow presentations. The article database is organized into an article directory, covering a wide variety of subjects, allowing the site to provide readers with content, and providing publishers with free content for their websites, newsletters, or ezines. Bukisa rewards its users who contribute their knowledge with monetary value. The Bukisa Index, the amount of payment submitters can receive per 1,000 views of their content, stands at $3.42 per 1,000 views.
History
Developed by Webika, which includes the founders of the online articles directory ArticlesBase, Bukisa was founded in 2008 as a website to provide a free platform for writers to publish their work online. At the same time, Bukisa allows its publishers to gain income, based on a share of the amount of views the article received. Bukisa is unique in that it offers more media services than most of the dozens of other “how-to” websites on the internet. Bukisa’s vision is to maximize knowledge sharing experiences and to introduce contributors to a better and more fun-filled way to share their knowledge online.
Purpose
Bukisa wants its users to enjoy contributing their knowledge to the online Bukisa community. Publishers who submit content to Bukisa can only submit family safe content which teaches their readers something. Bukisa also helps publishers strengthen their online presence and credibility and also helps build an online readership.
Bukisa includes a friendly dimension in its payment system. When inviting friends to join your network, and they themselves begin to produce content that generates traffic which results in revenue, you will see income to the tune of an additional 25% bonus. If those friends should then invite other contacts, who in turn create popular content, then you’ll see one-sixteenth of this total revenue. In the end you could do very well and see steady cash sent your way.”
Content
All content published on Bukisa is arranged into 21 categories, which the user and reader will be able to choose from when submitting and viewing content. Some of these categories include Internet, Technology, Culture, Education, Reviews and more. Bukisa also makes it easy for friends and family to share published content amongst them.
According to Mashable, “Bukisa is designed to be as easy for content creators to use as it is for consumers.” Bukisa’s features are easy to use and “Categories are in clear view and are fairly extensive, and things like the popular topics window, columns for popular posts, and things recently added seem to be well placed.”
History
Developed by Webika, which includes the founders of the online articles directory ArticlesBase, Bukisa was founded in 2008 as a website to provide a free platform for writers to publish their work online. At the same time, Bukisa allows its publishers to gain income, based on a share of the amount of views the article received. Bukisa is unique in that it offers more media services than most of the dozens of other “how-to” websites on the internet. Bukisa’s vision is to maximize knowledge sharing experiences and to introduce contributors to a better and more fun-filled way to share their knowledge online.
Purpose
Bukisa wants its users to enjoy contributing their knowledge to the online Bukisa community. Publishers who submit content to Bukisa can only submit family safe content which teaches their readers something. Bukisa also helps publishers strengthen their online presence and credibility and also helps build an online readership.
Bukisa includes a friendly dimension in its payment system. When inviting friends to join your network, and they themselves begin to produce content that generates traffic which results in revenue, you will see income to the tune of an additional 25% bonus. If those friends should then invite other contacts, who in turn create popular content, then you’ll see one-sixteenth of this total revenue. In the end you could do very well and see steady cash sent your way.”
Content
All content published on Bukisa is arranged into 21 categories, which the user and reader will be able to choose from when submitting and viewing content. Some of these categories include Internet, Technology, Culture, Education, Reviews and more. Bukisa also makes it easy for friends and family to share published content amongst them.
According to Mashable, “Bukisa is designed to be as easy for content creators to use as it is for consumers.” Bukisa’s features are easy to use and “Categories are in clear view and are fairly extensive, and things like the popular topics window, columns for popular posts, and things recently added seem to be well placed.”
Pixable is a tool for creating photo albums. It was founded at MIT in November 2008 by Inaki Berenguer, Andres Blank and Alberto Sheinfeld. Pixable enables users to create photo albums using their Facebook content (photos, taggs or comments), pictures from Flickr, Picasa, and photos on their own computers. It is the first website that allows users to create and print photo books using their Facebook content.
History
In the summer of 2008 Inaki Berenguer and Andres Blank took a trip with a group of MBA students from the MIT Sloan School of Management to Japan. When they came back from the trip they wanted to create an album using their facebook pictures and the pictures published by their classmates, but had no way how to; at this point they came up with PIXABLE. In November 2008, while finishing their MBA at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Inaki and Andres joined forces with Alberto Sheinfeld to start creating PIXABLE.
Media Recognition
Pixable has received widespread media recognition:
* El Pais (Spain).
* 30 Noticias (Argentina).
* Hit Barcelona World Innovation Summit.
* Idea Espacio (Mexico).
Controversy
Some controversy has been generated concerning the quality of Pixable albums given the low image quality of Facebook pics. Technically, a 600 x 400 pixel image can produce a 4" x 6" print. Pixable is able to print great 4" x 6" pictures from Facebook with a hardly noticeable drop in quality when compared to the photos printed at their original, full-quality resolution. Pixable also offers the possibility of uploading photos directly from your hard drive with full resolution.
History
In the summer of 2008 Inaki Berenguer and Andres Blank took a trip with a group of MBA students from the MIT Sloan School of Management to Japan. When they came back from the trip they wanted to create an album using their facebook pictures and the pictures published by their classmates, but had no way how to; at this point they came up with PIXABLE. In November 2008, while finishing their MBA at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Inaki and Andres joined forces with Alberto Sheinfeld to start creating PIXABLE.
Media Recognition
Pixable has received widespread media recognition:
* El Pais (Spain).
* 30 Noticias (Argentina).
* Hit Barcelona World Innovation Summit.
* Idea Espacio (Mexico).
Controversy
Some controversy has been generated concerning the quality of Pixable albums given the low image quality of Facebook pics. Technically, a 600 x 400 pixel image can produce a 4" x 6" print. Pixable is able to print great 4" x 6" pictures from Facebook with a hardly noticeable drop in quality when compared to the photos printed at their original, full-quality resolution. Pixable also offers the possibility of uploading photos directly from your hard drive with full resolution.