The words of the day are “Free Fonts” AAAAAAHHH /end my best Pee Wee Herman impersonation. You know, I don’t think I’ve EVER had the opportunity to use a handwritten script font in a project, which either means I’m unlucky in my projects, or I haven’t been creative enough. But either way, it’s nice to see there are...
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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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Got a link to this article about the “7 Personality Types of Designers Today”. (via WebDesignerDepot) I see a bit of myself in almost every one of these…good stuff, bad stuff, things I’m glad I got over, and things I’d want to be. A little food for thought.
Read More4.5 tips to being a good web designer
Today I had to do a 10 minute presentation to my business networking chapter. Since a fellow member had suggested I talk about website design today I tried to think of a subject for them that wouldn’t bore them to tears. I could easily talk about HTML code and scripting all day long but I think I’d lose their attention in about 20 seconds. So...
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Stumbled across this site recently which lists some pretty fun jQuery tutorials including some of the tricks I see a lot on some of the trendier sites out there. It’s definitely got me inspired with a couple of these techniques. Continuing on this discussion floating around on the Web these days…jQuery (Javascript) has long been an alternative...
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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.