As I’ve been teaching dozens upon dozens of up-and-coming graphic design students through my classes, I’ve been wanting to create an article with tips about the lessons I learned the hard way about this business. Only problem is I can’t seem to get my thoughts in order about my list. One day something inspirational hits me and then I...
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If you’ve been to my site before…welcome back. I hope you like the new look of the site. I know I was certainly getting bored of the old site, but I’ve simply been too busy to do anything with it. Hopefully this new site will help be manage my content a bit better. As you can see, there’s more of an emphasis on my portfolio work,...
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The way websites are designed is changing rapidly. It’s a natural hazard for this type of work unfortunately. I thought to myself recently “I can’t keep up with all of these changes”. But really….has it ever been different? Likely not. I’ve done webdesign since the days of the dial-up modems where even having a...
Read MoreIt’s been increasingly difficult to post regularly here on my blog sorry. Couple things going on here. First, I’ve split up my teaching material from my business website here, so I created another site and blog rather than mix everything all up on this site. I haven’t exactly worked out how I’d manage two blogs. The one on the class...
Read MoreThis cool site, DrawAStickMan.com, does some interesting things. It’s better experienced rather than described
Read MoreI’ve been having this discussion with my brother recently about usability in web design. I know…a bit of a geeky conversation, but since my brother and I have overlapped in some areas of our careers, it was just another thing that we talked about. It all started out when he sent me a pretty cool collection of CSS scrolling websites. This type...
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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.