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DG News Service – Hewlett-Packard reported a 2 percent drop in revenue for the July quarter, which was better than expected, and said its business is stabilizing.

Net earnings for the quarter, the third of HP’s fiscal year, were US$1.6 billion, or $0.67 per share, down from $2.0 billion, or $0.80 per share, in the same quarter a year earlier, HP announced Tuesday.

The company’s purchase of services giant EDS last year again helped to prop up its results. Revenue from HP’s services business almost doubled thanks to the acquisition, to $8.5 billion, while sales of printers, servers and desktop PCs all declined sharply from a year earlier, HP said.

Overall revenue came in at $27.5 billion, better than the $27.3 billion financial analysts had been expecting, according to Thomson Reuters. The net profit before restructuring costs and other one-time items was $0.91 per share, a penny better than the analyst forecast.

“HP’s performance this quarter is a result of our strong business portfolio, efficient cost structure and scale,” Chairman and CEO Mark Hurd said in a prepared statement. “Business is stabilizing, and we are confident that HP will be an early beneficiary of an economic turnaround and will continue to outperform when conditions improve.”

Revenue from HP’s Personal Systems Group, which sells desktop and laptop PCs, declined 18 percent from a year ago, to $8.4 billion, though unit shipments increased by 2 percent, HP said. Revenue declined 10 percent from laptops and 26 percent from desktops, and average selling prices dropped, executives said on a conference call.

The printing and imaging group reported a 20 percent drop in revenue, to $5.7 billion, while HP’s Enterprise Storage and Servers division saw revenue decline 23 percent, to $3.7 billion. Software revenue declined 22 percent to $847 million, while revenue from financial services slipped 1 percent to $670 million, HP said.

The number of printers HP sold in the quarter dropped by 23 percent. The company underestimated the demand for laser printers, and some models will be in short supply through the end of HP’s fiscal year, Hurd said during a conference call.

The task of integrating EDS into HP is going well, he said. HP completed its acquisition of EDS a year ago this month, for $13.9 billion. So far, HP has cut 16,000 of the 25,000 jobs that it said it would eliminate as a result of the merger, Hurd said.

Other large tech companies, including IBM, Cisco Systems, Microsoft and Intel, have all reported declining revenue for the last quarter, as businesses kept a tight rein on spending and conserved cash.

Like HP, however, several companies have said demand may be picking up, and there have been positive signs even for the beleaguered PC market. Intel said last month that conditions in the PC market were improving and predicted a stronger second half, while Dell said that demand was stabilizing.

Around the beginning of every year, those in the graphic design industry ponder the popularity and viability of logo and design trends to come. Comments surface that gain ground in

Twitter and become viral, like that from Jeff Fisher, creative identity engineer with LogoMotives, who indicated earlier this year that the simple act of identifying something as a design trend makes it something to be avoided. He dubbed his remark his “annual design trend comment.”

The SciFi channel’s recent move in changing its logo to “SyFy” reflects continuing trends that include branding and company identity as primary considerations in logo development. Whether or not the SyFy design works, it reflects a certain marketing theory consciousness.

Websites like LogoOrange and LogoLounge and blogs aplenty keep a watchful eye on what’s hot in design, and it is understandable that they would. Good designers are aware of the potential for overuse and saturation of any trend; when that happens, the design is no longer original or effective, and it becomes apparent that it is time to look for the next big thing.

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Last Update: 7/24 12:19 pm A new digital prints exhibit will be featured in the Park National Bank Art Gallery at UC Clermont College starting this weekend.

Artist Richard Eyman’s exhibit titled, “They Are Just Like Us” will be shown from July 25 until August 11.

“I gravitate towards work that is figurative in nature,” Eyman said. “What a better way to get your audience to identify with your work, but through the human form, especially the face.”

Eyman is a graphic design instructor at The Art Institute of Ohio, and earned his masters of fine art from UC’s College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning (DAAP).

The exhibit is located in Batavia at 4200 Clermont College Drive. Summer gallery hours are Monday through Thursday 7:30 a.m. through 6 p.m. Friday it is open from 7:30 a.m. until 5 p.m. The exhibition is free and open to the public.

Do you share designer William Drenttel’s longstanding fascination with the periodic table? Do you remain confident in the power of space-age polymers? Are you surrounded by limiting reagents? If so (and even if not), you might consider seeking a better living through chemistry as a freelance graphic designer for the American Chemical Society. The scientific association is seeking a “detail-oriented, highly responsive” designer to create promotional materials on a project-by-project basis. Bring your HTML, Quark, InDesign, and Photoshop skills, and don’t forget to balance your equations.