You know with all the hoopla going around with Flash vrs HTML5 these days, take it upon clever people out there to find an opportunity to do something about it. This Smokescreen project is aimed at giving advertisers/developers the option to convert Flash into HTML5…thus making it more iPad & iPhone friendly.
Read MoreLiving the dream?
Having the “American Dream” isn’t always what it’s cracked up to be. I have a beautiful family, nice home, good car…everyone’s healthy. I should feel like everything hunky dory but the weight of all this stuff to take care of feels really heavy at times. It’s no surprise of course, I knew when I altered my life...
Read MoreAndrea Gnesato
I ran across this nice site by what looks to be an Italian designer, Andrea Gnesato. Very fun layout and my favorite part about it is there’s not one bit of Flash in site. Again, I have nothing against Flash as a medium, but I think when you can accomplish something beautiful using the simplest methods available it impresses me. What I like about...
Read MoreNeed to chill
Things have gotten very busy lately….I’m talking both with work and in general life. It’s both good and bad; when there’s no work you stress out over bills, but when there’s too much to do, you stress out over how you’ll manage to get everything done. I don’t know which is better? Of course I’ll take the...
Read More35 Inspiring Typographic Business Cards
Yet another collection of inspirational ideas I stumbled across today. This one being focused on typography on business cards. There’s a few I kinda like here…especially the letterpress ones I don’t see too many people using them here. I’ve been playing around a few times with UV coat print lately where you have gloss effects...
Read MoreWord-of-mouth
I’ve never been good about bragging about myself. It might be my asian upbringing, or even the fact I grew up here in Hawaii where generally most business people aren’t as aggressive. I remember in my past employer, my manager had to always encourage me to speak out, “you should tell them that you did XXXX and YYYY, you’re...
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.