A friend linked me to this Hello Kitty post with all these new twists based off of manga or comic book heroes. Kinda cool I guess, but I’m not sure who they’re trying to target now? Is there a growing market for comic-reading girls now? Or are they hoping to catch a new audience of male vinyl collectors? The Hit Girl and Doraemon version is...
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This is a great collection of tips of web typography tips. Some of these I actually wasn’t aware of. Hard to keep track of the growing flexibility of web type these days. While my interest in typography has been steadily increasing for both online work and in print, I’ve had a love/hate relationship with it for web work. Good typography is like...
Read MoreFor free or not for free?
I thought this post “For free or not for free” to be a good summary of the challenges a young designer might face getting into the marketplace. It’s really tough. I was lucky enough to have had the chance to make my mistakes stepping into design while employed…so I took my lumps at someone else’s expense. It was an opportunity...
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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.