One of the most overused words I hear when I talk to a client is the word “Simple” “I want my website to be real simple”. “This shouldn’t cost so much because I want it real simple”. “My illustration should just take you a few minutes because it’s really simple” AAAAAAgh. Folks, never approach a...
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Not exactly new (this video was put up 3 years ago now), but then again, I haven’t really seen much of this being put into actual commercial use lately have you? It still worth a look though — designers who may be into animation, or interface design might look into textiles like this as a new media niche. I don’t know if I’d ever...
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Hard to imagine these days that people have enough disposable income to buy a lighting fixture just for looks like this, but I still think it looks neat anyway. If I had this I’d put it up right next to my desk and stare at it numbly all day long. (I do that sometimes, I get fixated at laundry spinning round and round and I can stare at it for a...
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Few days ago I pointed out how I loved design of objects where you just don’t normally think they needed re-designing? Here’s a couple more ideas I thought were interesting. The Muji Chrononotebook above is a neat concept. I saw this posted across quite a few blogs this past Summer, now I’m seeing it crop up in magazines too. I guess...
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To further my case that design matters…I’m often impressed when I see inventors take every-day objects we take for granted and put a modern improvement on it. Earlier this year my wife and I invested in the small little ball vacuum cleaner from Dyson. You know the hype, “no messy filters”, “no loss of suction” blah...
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Is it a keypad? Or is it jewelry? Perhaps both? Interesting concept taking the emoticon concepts into new areas in both function and form. On this board it acts as a keypad you can use to insert emoticons into your messages. But then you can pull out these round smiley guys and insert them into wearable jewelry. Kinda geeky but I can see this being a...
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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.