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...
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A friend of mine forwarded me an email link today to this Dutch website. It might be an old chain letter I don’t know. As always I immediately thought it would be a phishing link or something but lo and behold it was nothing but a light joke. It doesn’t take a lot of figure out how this is done. (I found it funny the email commentator said some...
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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...
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I’ve always been somewhat of a stationery geek — when I was a kid I always liked colored pens, mechanical pencils, crayons, etc. Nothing freak-show or anything, I just liked collecting stationery and I used them judiciously to draw all the time back in the day before I discovered video games. Anyway, where I’m going with this, is that I...
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When I was up in Hong Kong a couple weeks back I couldn’t help but encounter tons of kiosk stores that sold cell phones and accessories. My wife suggested I get a new iPhone case up there because it was “cheap”. We looked around and there wasn’t anything I spotted there that was any good. But what really held me from getting a case...
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On the subject about taxes, Gizmodo made mention this morning about this great poster created by an artist named Jess Bachman. It shows a visual record of where all your tax dollars are going with the biggest chunks represented by bigger circles. When I think of taxes I’m reminded of that one scene from Godfather 2 where the Don in the white suit...
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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.