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- First Name
- Dave
- Last Name
- Bricker
- About Me - Personally
- See what I do professionally. It's all intertwined.
- About Me - Professionally
- Hmmm…what do I do? Many things.
I'm a writer. My second novel is being edited. I have a nonfiction book out on self-publishing and I'm writing a memoir of my well-spent youth living on a sailboat. Professionally, that translates into working with writers to create excellent books, helping companies to establish in-house publishing divisions and educating writers through seminars and workshops.
I'm a Graphic Designer and MFA Design Educator. I'm a full-time design faculty member at an Arts University. I started Miami's oldest web design firm in 1995 and I'm still at it. My work is a little different: it's organic, mischievous, provocative. It's profoundly digital, but looks like its been locked in a box since the 1930's. The wacky flash stuff is always fun, but I also love setting up blogs and designing book covers. Call me if you need something that doesn't look like the stuff you see every day over and over, or if you have a design idea everyone tells you is impossible. I write my own code and create my own design, and consider them part of the same creative process.
I'm a marketer, but I don't make "beautiful lies" for mediocre clients. If you're authentic and have something of value to offer, I'd love to work with you. I've done a few Fortune 500s and plenty of Mom and Pops. Sometimes, I get called in to push the big consulting firms to deliver something beyond the canned solutions they can make more profit on.
I lived aboard cruising sailboats for 15 years and crossed the Atlantic Ocean in a wooden boat. I can solve problems with spit, chewing gum and twine.
I've played guitar (mostly acoustic and mostly jazz) since 1981, and have designed several successful instruments. I minored in jazz guitar and rarely perform, but I play every day. I've done marketing work for some of the world's finest instrument builders.
All of these influences are always in play regardless of what kind of problem I'm engaging with.
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Why Flash Is Not Dead and What That Means for Publishers
Posted on November 14, 2011 at 1:00pm 0 Comments 0 Promotions
Flash has been one of my favorite tools for over a decade so I was concerned when Adobe A World Without Borders - The End of the Bookstore
Posted on July 29, 2011 at 2:28pm 3 Comments 1 Promotion
In the wake of Borders’ bankruptcy, I’ve read various theories about what led to the bookseller’s demise. Monday morning quarterbacking inevitably follows someone else’s failure; it’s easy to stand at the curb and analyze the tire tracks, but Borders’ crash had little to do with pilot error. In the span of a few years, books changed, publishing changed, printing changed and…
Export Flash FlipBooks from Adobe Indesign
Posted on February 14, 2011 at 10:00am 0 Comments 0 Promotions
A series of free video tutorials on how to publish you own flipbooks from your typeset manuscript. The tutorial covers how to add paper textures and good shading, how to manage black and white images, covers, internal and external links and more. Download my free book resizer at http://www.essentialabsurdities.com/bookscaler.zip
If you find the tutorial and files useful, I'd appreciate you joining my email list at…
ContinueSelf-Publishing? Get Real
Posted on November 26, 2010 at 2:38pm 1 Comment 0 Promotions
Why did I write my book?
If the answer is, “I don’t really know. I had a story inside me and it just had to come out,” you’re the sincerest kind of writer, but you may not have a good product upon which to build a publishing… Continue
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My name is Lucy.
I really do like to share thoughts with you as a friend please you kindly
contact me
through my id (lucyabel611@yahoo.co.uk)
hope to meet you there
thank I will be waiting because i have something VERY important to tell you.
Lots of love
Congrats on being featured, Dave!
Preserved to Serve Claire
Hi Dave,
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You are welcome to browse our website www.newoneprinting.com for more detail. Or free feel to contact me directly (gary@newoneprinting.com) if you have any question.
Cheers,
Gary
Dave,
I've added a few of my own thoughts to the Cover Design Best Practices thread, and as I am much more of a fine artist then cover design pro, I wanted to invite you, again, to share your thoughts, or criticisms, on my posts.
Thank you, either way, for your time.
Sincerely,
bradley flora
SPANnet.org
Dave,
If you have time, would you consider responding to Margi in this thread: http://www.spannet.org/forum/topics/thoughts-to-share-with-a-new ?
Thanks you for your time and Happy New Year!
Brad Poulson
Are you on Filedby?
Claire Power Murphy,
Another Featured member
Thanks for accepting my invitation to join SPANnet. You’ve already begun to make a significant contribution to the education of our members – as I suspected. Welcome, and if I can be of assistance to you, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Highest Regards,
Brad Poulson
SPAN Communications Director
PS. I hope you’ll spread the word about our on line community!
Welcome to SPANnet. I am an official greeter for the SPANnet online community. I am also one of the moderators of the Book Production discussion group.
Great covers! The following sentence probably doesn't apply to you: If you have any questions about editing, book cover design, typesetting, indexing or any other book production topic, come to the group and I will be happy to assist you in any way possible. :-)
Michele DeFilippo
Owner, 1106 Design
Your book. Designed. With hand-holding.