Merchandising has existed since people traded rocks for food in caves. Retailers (then and now) use an assortment of strategies to lift sales within their stores. Those strategies include advertising campaigns, end-cap promotions, pricing tactics, discounting, and even the manner in which products sit on the shelves. The question is, how does a digital signage network fit within the context of a retailer's broader merchandising strategy?

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Typography is one of the qualities upon which the authors of Layer Magazine base most of the design work. The type animation engine in After Effects offers a gamut of ways to express typographic flair. It provides the ability to control the 3D motion and position of text characters.

This tutorial demonstrates the possiblities:

http://shar.es/1Wctc

http://www.perceptualedge.com/files/GraphDesignIQ

Samsung Electronics America Inc., a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics
Corporation, today announced the upcoming release of its latest P Series (Portable) Projector, the P410M, an LED-based DLP Pocket Projector. Weighing less than two pounds, the P410M`s compact design (5.8" W x 2.5" H x 5.7" D), USBport, and auto play feature, make presentations "laptopoptional" and packs easily into your laptop bag or briefcase.

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SEATTLE -- There will be no more pencils, no more books for 40 graduate students heading back to University of Washington for fall semester.

Instead, there will be Kindle.

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