Archive for October, 2008

Last Weekend, Chris P and I were lucky enough to attend How Magazine’s In-Howse Designer Conference ‘08 in San Fransisco. I gained a lot of insight into some issues in the industry and heard a lot of concerns of fellow designers across the country. Here is a quick rundown of the conference:
The conference kicked off [...]

Often when a new client is looking for a design or re-design they tend to reference their competition or favorite online shops. Referencing is one thing, there is no reason not to be inspired and even to request functional design that works for you. Following or copying competition exactly is not going to [...]

You know when you create a summer project to-do-list with big plans to knock off every item on the list before the summer is up and by fall you only accomplished 20% of what you hoped to accomplish? Sometimes that is how I feel when it comes to mastering Adobe Illustrator. Personally I [...]

Yahoo has announced that they will start accepting new users for their own web analytics tool. And the good news is that store owners from Yahoo Small Business will be the first in line. 
Yahoo plans to provide ability to set up analitics with just a click of a button for all of it’s 13,000 yahoo stores.
You can [...]

is this: Universal Studios Ghostbusters Ecto-1 1959 Cadillac MM.

I would like to share with you guys one of my favorite sites on the web: The Cool Hunter.
The site has been up and running for about four years now, and features everything from architecture, to fashion and design (they actually just started their own design studio a few weeks ago). Read more about who [...]

So apparently when Adobe got rid of ImageReady and combined it with Photoshop, not all of the features were transferred over. One of the key features missing in Photoshop CS3 is the ability to open an animated gif file as a series of frames/layers.

Fireworks can open animated gifs properly, but if you don’t have Fireworks [...]

I think we should consider repainting the halls. Here’s some inspiration.
Once that’s finished up, we can start working on painting the outside.

On our lunch break, Megan Zang and myself attended a flea market at St Paul’s here in town. I stumbled upon a doodle pro magnet for only 50 cents. I think thats my great find of the day. Considering I spent over $5 last week at target on the same thing (but in blue). That magnet resides [...]

… this is what you need for your next birthday party!