LogoMix, the leading platform for logo design and small business branding, has announced the acquisition of online logo maker com.

The combined company will provide logo design, branding and other services to over 20 million businesses a year, making LogoMix the premier provider of online logo design worldwide. LogoMix will continue to operate LogoMaker.com and invest heavily in improvements to the LogoMaker platform.

Founded in 2006, LogoMix enables businesses around the world to create and purchase custom marketing products for use online and offline. On LogoMix.com, users can create a custom logo in minutes and then in one click print their logo on business cards, signs, pens and other offline marketing products. The company also offers marketing services including websites, business email, domains and Google Apps for Work.

“This is another step toward our goal of creating an amazing platform where small business owners can create logo designs and marketing instantly, without the need of a professional designer,” said LogoMix CEO and founder Craig Bloem. “Our mission is to revolutionize the antiquated process of designing a high-end logo, making it easier and faster using artificial intelligence, image rastering and other technologies.”

“LogoMaker.com has been a leader in this space for over a decade and as a combined business we’ll be able to provide for all the major marketing needs of a small business including business cards, websites, signs and other products on one platform,” said LogoMaker CEO Rob Marsh.

LogoMix currently operates FreeLogoServices.com and PrintingNow.com. The acquisition will also include the following prominent domain names: Businesslogo.com, Companylogo.com, Companylogos.com, Freelogo.com, Freelogomaker.com, Instalogos.com and Logomakerdesign.com.

More About LogoMix

LogoMix is a self-service marketing and branding platform serving more than 300,000 customers in 150 countries. LogoMix believes that making a logo, business card or custom marketing product like a pen, polo, or sign should not only be easy, it should be fun. They give users the tools to brand their business during these crucial points of connection with customers, partners and the world.

LogoMix enables businesses around the world to create and purchase custom marketing products through websites LogoMix.com, FreeLogoServices.com, PrintingNow.com, LogoMaker.com, and our partner applications with ADP and Google Apps for Work.

For more information, visit LogoMix.com or LogoMaker.com.

Detroit, Michigan – June 23, 2016 – Seventeen metropolitan Detroit artists and one collaborative have been selected to receive 2016 Kresge Artist Fellowships. In addition, two emerging artists will receive Gilda Awards. If you’re aspiring to be an amazing character designer, start practicing this now and become a concept artist.

Funded by The Kresge Foundation, Kresge Artist Fellowships and Gilda Awards are administered by the Kresge Arts in Detroit office of the College for Creative Studies. The latest awards uplift and support artists working in film, music, dance, theatre, performance art, and interdisciplinary forms.

Each fellowship comes with an unrestricted $25,000 prize and a year of professional practice support provided by Creative Many Michigan, including an invitation to an intensive professional development retreat presented by New York-based artist-service organization Creative Capital. The two Gilda Award recipients receive $5,000 unrestricted awards to foster their work. The award is named in honor of artist, CCS professor and 2009 Kresge Artist Fellow Gilda Snowden’s (1954-2014) legacy as a mentor and champion of young, emerging artists in metropolitan Detroit.

Among this year’s selected recipients are both iconic Detroit artists and rising stars. Collectively, their work represents a broad spectrum, from traditional to contemporary interpretations of this year’s two fellowship categories, Film & Music and Live Arts.

“From emerging practitioners to renowned anchors of Detroit’s artistic community, the 2016 Kresge Artist Fellows exemplify the exceptional talent, vision and dedication that have always defined Detroit’s artists and creative communities,” says Michelle Perron.

FILM & MUSIC FELLOWS*
Christopher Jon Alexander, Documentary/Fiction Hybrid Filmmaker
Chi Amen-Ra, Percussionist
Mahogany Jones, Hip Hop Artist
Marion Hayden, Jazz Musician
Danny Kroha, Musician, Performer
Oksana Mirzoyan, Screenwriter, Director
Joshua Mulligan, Animator
Sterling Toles, Composer, Producer
Pamela D. Wise, Composer, Performer

LIVE ARTS ARTS FELLOWS*
Biba Bell, Choreographer, Dancer
jessica Care moore, Interdisciplinary Poet
Corazon del Pueblo (collaborative), Folk Dance, Choreography
L05, Live Media Artist, Performer
Jimbo Easter, Performance Artist
Shaun S. Nethercott, Playwright
Red Stowall, Choreographer, Dancer
Ralph Taylor, Carnival Body Puppet Artist, Performer

GILDA AWARDS*

Film & Music: Ellen Coons, Animator

Live Arts: Marsae Mitchell, Choreographer & Director

The awardees were selected by independent panels of local and national artists and arts professionals from among 450 applications.

FILM & MUSIC PANELISTS*
Todd Chandler, Filmmaker; Musician; Interdisciplinary Artist; Educator
Njia Kai, Curator; Producer
Terence Nance, Filmmaker; Visual Artist; Musician
Frank Pahl, Composer; 2010 Kresge Artist Fellow; Adjunct Professor, College for Creative Studies, University of Michigan
Pamela Z, Composer/Performer, Media Artist

LIVE ARTS PANELISTS*
Penny Godboldo, Associate Professor of Dance, Marygrove College; Master Dunham Technique Instructor
Aku Kadogo, Theatre Director; Choreographer; Chair, Drama Department, Spelman College
Carrie Morris, Director; Puppeteer; Performance Artist
Leyya Mona Tawil, Dance Artist; Director, Dance Elixir
Sarah Wilke, Managing Director, On the Boards

“Detroit lived up to its legacy as home to a wealth of outstanding creative talent,” says panelist Njia Kai. “It was exciting to experience such a diverse sampling of performing artists, and intimidating to distill nine fellows from the hundreds of worthy applicants.”

The Kresge Arts in Detroit program represents the foundation’s desire to support artists living and working in the foundation’s hometown, and to elevate the profile of metro Detroit’s artists and creative communities. “

These Kresge Artist Fellows and Gilda Awardees exemplify the vision and verve of an arts community that increasingly has the attention of the world,” says Rip Rapson, CEO and President of The Kresge Foundation, “Detroit’s overdue recognition as a center of arts and culture is integral to our ongoing revival. That recognition is a testament to arts organizations, patrons, audiences and others – but fundamentally it’s a testament to our artists, whose work we seek to lift up and amplify through Kresge Arts in Detroit.”

Since 2008, the Kresge Arts in Detroit program has contributed over $4 million to the local creative economy through the Kresge Eminent Artist award, Kresge Artist Fellowships and Gilda Awards in Film & Music, Literary Arts, Live Arts, and Visual Arts. This investment in artists and collaboratives working in Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties – a total of 156 over eight years – empowers culturally minded thinking and strengthens Detroit’s position as a major center for arts and culture nationally and internationally.

If and when planning to purchase a commercial property, the question often arises, ‘How Can I Find a Reliable and Competent Building Inspectors Melbourne for Conducting a Commercial Building Inspection?’ While one could easily write an eBook on this subject matter, this article offers several tips to help you hire a reliable and competent inspector for the purpose of obtaining a thorough and diligent commercial building inspection. So without further ado, let me begin by telling you ‘What Not to Do’.

Never hire a commercial building inspector who was referred to you by the real estate agent or any other outside party who has a vested interest in and stands to gain from the sale of the property.

Although this statement goes without saying, it’s worth mentioning simply because many of those looking to purchase commercial real estate believe it is standard protocol to rely upon the realtor’s recommendation for hiring an inspector. In reality, this practice poses a conflict of interest that can have dire consequences for the party purchasing the property. Unfortunately, real estate agents who knowingly partake in this practice along with inspectors who continue to burn the candle from both ends know exactly what they’re doing and how to get away with it. While there may be a few exceptions to what I am telling you, I can assure you that the majority of inspectors who rely heavily upon referrals from real estate agents for their business are not going to rock the boat by disclosing any information to the client during the course of an inspection that may later serve to jeopardize their relationship with the broker or real estate company who referred them in the first place.

Never hire a Home Inspector to conduct a Commercial Property Inspection.

As for hiring a home inspector to conduct a commercial building inspection, suffice it to say that in most cases, conducting a commercial building inspection is altogether different from performing a home inspection for reasons too numerous to list in this article. However, the proliferation of home inspectors over the past twenty years (everyone wants to be one, especially in those States where home inspection licensing has become mandatory making it relatively easy for anyone to become licensed), hasn’t helped either as this has spawned an increasing number of home inspectors who are still unable to properly inspect a home, much less a commercial building, even if their life depended upon it. Moreover, given the number of significant and distinct differences between residential and commercial property, while experience in inspecting homes may well serve as a prerequisite, it is by no means a substitute for the vast amount of knowledge and experience required and yet to be learned by most home inspectors before they can even begin thinking about conducting a diligent and thorough building inspection.

Aside from ‘What Not to Do’, there are also other criteria you need to consider or at least be aware of in your quest to hire a reliable and competent commercial building inspector. namely:

Know the fundamental difference between a Commercial Building Inspection and a Property Condition Assessment (PCA).

Although this topic warrants a separate discussion, it’s important to note that the terms ‘PCA’ and ‘Commercial Building Inspection’ are often used interchangeably in the commercial sector. This in turn has resulted in a lot of confusion not only among real estate investors and others looking to purchase commercial property but real estate agents as well who more often than not simply do not know much less understand the difference. To make matters worse, the ASTM (American Society of Testing Materials) has also gotten in on the act by promulgating their ASTM Standards for Conducting a Baseline PCA. What this means is that since they happen to be a nationally recognized organization in the construction industry, in certain respects they’re similar to the AMA in the medical profession meaning anything and everything they write on a particular subject happens to bear a lot of weight. The problem arises in that the Standards for Conducting a Baseline PCA are often misunderstood by many in the profession and seldom if ever read by those buying and selling real estate.

To simplify things, all one really has to know is that the difference between a commercial building inspection and a Baseline PCA is like night and day since the later can be performed in a fraction of the time it takes to conduct a thorough and diligent commercial building inspection. The reasoning behind this is pure and simple in that a PCA is essentially a cursory walk-through of the property that relies heavily upon second hand information obtained through interviews and documentation (that may/may not be readily available let alone veritable) normally obtained through the owner and/or occupants of the property. Hence, my advice to anyone who is seriously considering having a PCA in deciding whether or not to purchase a commercial property is to forget it since in most cases a PCA is a total waste of time and money in providing information contained in a property condition report that isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on.

Try to obtain as much information as you can about the company and the inspector beforehand

This is another statement that goes without saying but I mention it because many people feel uncomfortable in asking questions of this nature especially when speaking with someone they don’t already know. However, if you reflect upon what I’ve just said for a moment, the fact you don’t know anything about the company or the inspector should be reason enough to ask all the questions you can to solicit answers without being embarrassed.

Be sure to ask the company or building inspector for references

Last but not least, do not be embarrassed to ask for bonafide references regarding recent clients for whom they have conducted similar commercial building inspections. If the company or inspector is reputable and if they have confidence in the service they provide, they normally will not have any reservations whatsoever in providing you with this information.

My next article will provide tips as to what questions you need to ask and what else you need to be aware of in looking to hire a reliable and competent commercial building inspector.

The author is an independent and accomplished commercial building inspector and consultant of over twenty-five years, providing commercial property/building inspections in the city of Chicago as well as surrounding and outlaying Illinois suburbs.

Aside from performing an occasional home inspection now and then, the author specializes in conducting commercial property inspections of both small and large office, warehouse, and apartment buildings including retail store outlets and strip shopping centers.

For more information, visit the author’s website at: http://www.inspectabuilding.com

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