This story about how Carolyn Davidson ended up getting paid $35 for designing the Nike logo never fails to keep coming up every couple of years. I remember this not just as a case-study towards the consequences of properly pricing one’s own work…but it’s also a hopeful story about how chance moments in one’s life can make a HUGE...
Read MoreComprehensive Website Planning Guide
I’m thinking this “Comprehensive Website Planning Guide” will be required reading in the first day of my coming semester’s Interactive Design class. There’s very little I disagree with there…I had to learn some of these issues the hard way. I particularly liked some advice about photography: Twelve professional images is...
Read MorePower Switch art
5,000 power switches + patient artist = awesome art (Valentine Ruhry via Quipsologies)
Read MoreLed Zep Covers
The other week I caught a movie preview for the US release of “Girl with a Dragon Tattoo”. There was a great soundtrack with a Led Zep cover I’ve never heard before. Turns out it was Trent Reznor with Karen O. Too bad not for sale yet…that’s a great combination. In the effort to find the sound I found this great list of...
Read MoreKickstarter
I sit in this little awkward space between being a full-on geek to being completely behind the times. It’s like, I stumble across stuff that the average Joe I interact with doesn’t know about, but by the time I’ve discovered it, it’s probably something that many people online have known about for a long time. Take Kickstarter for...
Read MoreAbout Me
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.