Here’s another tip I would give my own child much less any of the young business people out there. It may seem obvious, but it’s hard to keep this in mind when you’re hip deep in it. I’ve learned the tough way that in order to be successful in whatever I did, I had to fail a bunch of times to get there. It really IS true. My first...
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I find there are a LOT of “professionals” parading around claiming to be SEO experts. I know just enough about it to realize I’m NO pro at it. It takes a lot of work and diligent effort to improve search engine ranking for a website. For all those people who think that SEO work only involves paying for Google Ads (you know who you are),...
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I’m getting a little better at capturing the images I want to keep. This has been an uphill struggle. I see photography I like and I’m often struggling to try to do replicate it. I buy books, I buy expensive equipment, I take classes, I ask pro photogs for tips, etc. I take one step forward, two steps back. But at least once in a while I get...
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This collection of “Useful Legal Documents for Designers” is awesome. Read it, bookmark it, use it. What has taken me years to figure out on my own through trial, error, reading and research is all done for you right here in this short-form list of docs. There are some good gems of verbiage in some of these docs I might actually update my own...
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[youtube id=wiOwqDmacJo] I’ve been on this Neil deGrasse Tyson kick lately. Instead of music running on the background at work, I’ve had youtube vids of NDT playing as I work. I don’t know, I just find him to be an awesome source of inspiration lately. I think he may have changed one small element about how I raise Kingston…when...
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Had a conversation with a friend today about the hoopla surrounding the landing of the Mars rover “Curiosity” this past weekend. He suggested the media was overcompensating about this space news lately, he’s heard enough. That’s a reasonable opinion, I told him. But at the same time I felt that overcompensation for this type of news...
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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.