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 MoreKeeping your brand alive
I get it. The economy has been hurting and everyone’s scared of spending money. I’m not immune to that feeling myself…it’s this time of year where all my advertising renewals start to happen and I’ve been re-evaluating what my spending strategy will be this year as well. I don’t want to continue spending big bucks on...
Read MoreBrochure Design
Some beautiful sources of inspiration in the form of “22 Beautiful Examples of Brochure Design” today. /sigh. I have one brochure project like this that is supposed to be very fancy. Die-cuts, metallic paper, non-standard folds… sitting in limbo right now waiting on the bosses to approve it. It’s been a year. I suspect...
Read MoreBBC website
Last week a friend of mine posted a tweet from the BBC that demonstrated the level of work they went through trying to come up with a new website look. Take a peek…it’s pretty interesting the level of detail and work that they went through. Now the next time you approach a designer and ask for something “easy”…keep in mind...
Read MoreEye-tracking
A couple of my colleagues sent this link around lately. It’s a WIRED article that’s a couple years old already about Eye-Tracking Billboards. Try as I might I can’t find any more recent articles about this technology so I don’t know if it was an idea that just phased out of if there have been any test trials of this yet. But I found...
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.