So my “big project” came and past. I guess it’s about as successful as I could hope for. Overall I’ve been getting kudos all around the campus…faculty has been happy. Students have been happy. And that means reasonably good news for me. I keep waiting for the shoe to drop… maybe I missed a security issue here? Maybe...
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In a couple weeks I should be able to debut this College website I’ve spent maybe the past year and a half working on. It’ll be little nuts, not because some 100k visitors hit this site per month, or 4k per day. Heck, I’ve done similar site swaps for an ISP back in the day where just a slight change means being bombarded with phone calls...
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It’s been harder to post regularly here on my personal blog. I think it’s a reflection of my life right now where I’m multitasking so much across everything going on in my life, I simply can’t formulate a complete enough thought to post anything useful here. That’s kind of sad isn’t it? I DID find enough time between all...
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It’s hard to be interested in graphic design and not have noticed or taken part in discussions about Yahoo’s new logo. Personally I’ve cared very little about Yahoo for a while now and so any news coming from that company only got about a second’s worth of attention from me at first. But then the discussions started amongst friends...
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The longer I’ve been in this business doing web-design, the less it seems like it’s about design and the more it’s a concern about it producing results and being effective. It’s a hard sell. Most clients who approach me for the first time have all their heart set on getting a visual revamp of their website…the idea that we may...
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Interesting to find that this site, Gov.UK, is getting so much coverage by sites like Gizmodo and Wired lately. Why? Well, it was named “2013 Design of the Year” by the London Design Museum not because of any bells and whistles. In fact, it has very little in the way of graphics or flash. What it is does somewhat effectively is present a LOT...
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LoweStudio Inc was founded by me, Raphael Lowe, a Honolulu based illustrator and web designer. I presently design and manage a few dozen commercial websites, but my main focus these days is acting as the head developer for Kapiolani Community College and teaching New Media Arts.