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...
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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...
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Stumbled across another pretty good design-focused website today called Abduzeedo. Here you can find links for inspirational material, neat Photoshop and Illustrator tutorials and even wallpaper for your computer desktop. Quick glance at some of their tutorial collections I was pretty impressed and inspired. I’ve been a bit bored lately by some of...
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Today’s bit of inspiration comes in the form of video made by Philip Bloom. I’ve mentioned him in the past before with some beautiful shots of the Bay Area. What’s most interesting to keep in mind about what the photographer did in this case was to sit there with his camera for 24-hour periods capturing this stuff. I don’t think...
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I found this little psychedelic funky packaging on a gem of a website I stumbled across today called “So Much Pileup” – which collects graphic design artifacts and inspiration from the ’60s – ’80s. This little number was apparently done in the ’70s by a studio team of Frazier and Hauge.
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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.