Saturday night was the first annual Case Awards sponsored by AIGA Nashville. Familytree took home two awards; one for the Make-Out with Violence movie poster, and the other for our 2009 self-promotional poster. It was nice to be able to meet some new local designers and see all the great design that is coming out of Nashville.

Familytree is happy to welcome Thomas Russell aboard as our new web developer. He is going to play a vital role in assisting our clients not only build their websites, but also to effectively market their sites, and in building traffic. Thom is skilled in custom programming solutions, wordpress themes, and web performance analysis. Basically he rocks.

If you would like a little more insight into the creative mind behind Familytree then hop on over to www.105f2.com and read Alex’s interview there. He was honored to be chosen as the artist pick of the month, and also quite surprised. Big thanks to Tara Jo Kirk for setting the whole thing up.

If you are noticing that the thumbnails are looking crazy or inconsistent, please bear with us. They are being updated as we speak. Thanks

While those of us in the design and printing industries have been wondering about the future of printed media for a few years, almost everyone is noticing that newspapers are teetering on the brink of becoming obsolete. Print journalism is especially susceptible to the current economic lulls, and the world’s changing attitudes toward media delivery. The 100 year old Christian Science Monitor recently announced that they will no longer produce a daily printed newspaper starting later this year. Instead they will serve instantly updated news through their