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So far Marc Silber has created 292 blog entries.

The Power of Video and Why You Need To Be Using It

We're big fans of incorporating video into your website, as you've heard me talking about. This short infographics video from iQ interactive tells a pretty compelling story. Let us know if you'd like to talk about how to take advantage of the power of video in your site, give us a click.

Even a Brilliant Idea Won’t Sell Itself

If you missed why I'm quoting excerpts from the book Damn Good Advice, by George Lois see my earlier post "You're looking at Ron Holland, me and Jim Callaway in 1967, a few weeks after starting my second ad agency, Lois Holland Callaway. As you can see, we're selling an ad campaign to a new client (with

Using Angles–Two Versions of Black and White Photographs

Chairs at Peninsula School I was going through some old negatives, rescanning them and came across this one. What a difference an angle can make. Have a look at how this shot started out, when I took it way back,  of my 7th grade classroom at the Peninsula School in Menlo Park. Angles can make quite a point in telling your story.

All the tools in the world are meaningless without an essential idea

If you missed why I'm quoting excerpts from the book Damn Good Advice, by George Lois see my earlier post An artist, or advertising man, or anyone involved in a creative industry (or even noncreative professions such as a doctor, lawyer, electrician, factory worker, or president) without an idea, is unarmed. In the graphic arts,

Happy Holidays

Skyward view of Santa Pau, Spain Happy Holidays from Silber Studios We wish you a very creative and prosperous New Year! There's a story behind this photograph: Last year traveling through Spain, we came across the very photogenic village of Santa Pau, perched on a hill, looking over the pastoral countryside above Girona.

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Marc’s Fine Art Photography

If you'll pardon my shameless self promotion... These are Images of my life, photographs from around the world, spanning 6 decades, where I took my camera with me on countless adventures. Some of the images you’ll see are Big Sur and the California coast, the remote Sierra Madre of Mexico, Paris and South Africa to

Shooting a Small Photo Essay

Sometimes you stumble upon an opportunity for a photo-essay right in front of you, which  is what happened this afternoon right on our little street.  The Kiwanis Club had restored a flag pole that had been out of repair for 25 years, at the small park at the end our street. Our  local boy scout