Stumbled across some beautiful typography and illustration work by a London artist, Sophie Henson. The above infographic/chart is sort of fun. It hits home a bit for me given I met my wife online. Our experience wasn’t quite this convoluted though…. I think our chart would be like DATING SITE > EMAIL > SKYPE > EXPENSIVE PLANE TICKETS....
Read MorePhotocopy Romance
Short video shot via a Photocopier, 325 pages per minute. Can you get photocopy burnt from those things? Inspiration for my ART 112 students who SHOULD be working on their Flash animations over this break?
Read MoreWall-to-Wall sunflowers
I saw this Tate exhibit mentioned on a few sites a couple weeks back. Originally my gut reaction was to roll my eyes “another stupid exhibit pitched as art”. But it wasn’t until seeing the video that I kind of see the point of this. Apparently each one of these one hundred million seeds were hand crafted by 1600 artisans in a small...
Read MoreR/C Lego
I’ve always been a Lego fan since I was a kid. Unfortunately, I haven’t had a chance to touch a Lego set for decades now…which is a shame, because I know really cool stuff exists that can even challenge an adult. Once a year, one of my best friends, a Math major and current successful system admin for a telcom company, takes a holiday...
Read More15 New Photoshop Brushes
Since my students are being introduced to Photoshop these few weeks, I thought this collection of 15 Photoshop Brush sets to be worth listing.
Read MoreMost powerful colors on the web
Again yet another very fascinating infographic demonstrating some of the most used colors for web brands and icons. What’s interesting to see is how certain industries fell into similar color categories despite the fact that in many cases the colors were picked without much research on the part of the creators (e.g., Facebook) Hmmm…from the...
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.