Battle of the Bands
Miss Buddha – Loaded Gun from Kevin Andreshak on Vimeo. This coming Tuesday (Dec 30th), my band, “Miss Buddha” will be performing in the semi-final event for Star 101.9’s “Battle of the Bands” over at Pipeline Cafe. We’re up first 8pm – 8:30pm. Just 3 bands are up that night. I think there’s a $5 cover? If you can make it to be part of our cheering section….we’d love ya!
read moreThinking games?
Crayon Physics Deluxe from Petri Purho on Vimeo. Here’s an interesting physics type game that is availabe for the iPhone. It’s pretty neat. Reminds me of a game I used to love on PC DOS a long time ago where you build these Rube Goldberg type machines to solve the puzzles, The Incredible Machine.
read morePicking Colors
My best friend asked me the other day, “How do you pick good colors?”. Beyond the shock I got trying to grasp the idea that my buddy was trying to design something (he always says he can’t design), I got to thinking to myself, “hmm, how DO I pick good colors for my projects?” I didn’t have a good answer for him. I had color theory in school…but honestly, how much of that I really retained is another matter. In practice, what I really do to find colors for my various projects is a sometimes a mix of...
read moreLEGO goodness
You know, I’m going to REAAAALLY look forward to having a little boy. Among the many fun times we’ll have watching him grow, I’ll have a bonifide excuse for purchasing toys. Hotwheels, Legos, Action Figures…oh I’m he’s giddy with excitement. Talking about LEGO, here’s a personal project that supposedly took someone 4 years and $3000 to build. Hardcore man. The scene comes complete with Trooper footprints in the snow, Chewie working on the Falcon, and Han Solo running through the snow corridors. If...
read moreAnother CS4 review
Here’s a Gizmodo author’s review of CS4 to add on to my own take last week. I found the commentary to be pretty interesting too, getting a sense of what some people think. Some love it, some want it, some hated it. Mah, pretty standard I guess. It did get me thinking though…are these software companies pumping out new versions too fast now? CS3 wasn’t that old… I found this little list of Photoshop releases (yeah, geeky I know…hey I’m curious alright?). Hmm…2 years between some of the...
read moreArt 112 Student Projects
Well, I’ve finally uploaded most of the student projects turned into me this semester. God my eyes have crossed reading all this material and uploading everything. Take a peek…some of these students may become successful designers someday.
read moreDid you know?
Stumbled across this video while jumping around through some of my favorite Blogs. It’s a bit scary in some areas…not too flattering about the US either. But a lot of these details here certainly make you go, “Hmmmm” You can get all philosophical about this kind of stuff… makes me wonder with all the amazing progress human progress has made over the past century, will we reach a point where we know TOO much?
read moreI’m a poet
I thought I’d share a little poem I sang to myself today while looking for lunch, What the hell do I eat today, there’s nothing in our kitchen. I don’t wanna eat no damn burrito It’s the same damn thing I’ve always eaten. Clever no? No? Damn I need to go on a grocery run soon or I’m going to go crazy on these microwave burritos.
read moreCreative Ads
I love creative ads. I just remember in college both in my Marketing and Arts classes the instructors used to give us projects to make fake ads about something (e.g., anti-smoking, drunk driving, etc.) As students, we would try to come up with things that we thought were clever, but in hindsight, we were never quite clever enough to make the instructors jump with excitement. I remember once I tried doing a Porsche presentation with a group of fellow students and we were SO convinced we had the best commercial. I had this thing about how...
read moreI don’t want that project…
I don’t know if you just have to be in the business of webdesign to understand this humor, but I found this funny list of people you don’t want as clients. The sad thing is that I’ve encountered a good 75% of these situations before. I guess it comes with the territory… (via: Zeldman) Pleeeease…if you’re going to come to me for webdesign (or any kind of design for that matter), don’t be on this list? MMMkay?
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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