Politics of Design
It’s that time of year. Autumn leaves blanket street corners that begin to display the haphazard decor of red, white, blue, yellow, and dark green regional elections yard signs. We see it too often, in too much quantity. Eventually, the corrugated plastic flags on wire syndicates become white noise in front of our eyes. Eventually, […]
New & Old Technology
I was perusing USA Today on my iPhone last night and I read two headlines and subsequent articles that peaked my interest – Google Street View available on all continents and Serialized novel delivered by an app. These two titles got me thinking about how technology has brought some things back and how it sometimes […]
Branding Down to the Core
Last month my wife & I spent a long weekend in New York City for our anniversary. It was a nice break from life, but I could not help get caught up in the branding & advertising surrounding Times Square. I’ve seen it on TV and in movies hundreds of times, but you do not […]
Closing Your Doors
A couple of years ago at the beginning of the Recession, I met with a young business owner that opened up a boutique kitchen store and high-end mattress store. The kitchen store sold everything from a $10 spatula to a $35,000+ wine vault. The mattress store had a different approach to selling mattress which I […]
New Orleans Logos – NOLA.com
We’re continuing our New Orleans logo posts where we talk about logos around town. This post will discuss our thoughts on NOLA.com’s logo and we ask for your input in the comments section below. The NOLA.com logo is simple at first glance, but as we reviewed the logo design we noticed more significant features. The […]
Please use our interactive map
Today I was cleaning up some code and making small updates to a website that was not developed by us. The client has recently moved her business location, so I had to go through the website and update addresses. I know, that’s about as fun as watching paint dry, but had I not been changing […]
U-Tube?
Earlier this week I received an email about a client asking me if he should post a commercial on U-Tube. This proceeded to tell him it is YouTube and that it wouldn’t hurt to have his commercial on the social media website and that it would actually make it easier for us to post the […]
Social Personalities
If you’re a Facebook user then you probably are a fan of a few Facebook pages (I know it is officially known as “Like” pages, but I refuse to succumb to their vagueness. Long live “Fan” pages.) Lately, I have noticed a few of my favorite Fan pages doing some great things and others, some […]
Design the Planet #43-Box the Planet
A healthy lunch is essential to a child’s development. And that is the goal of Planet Box, to provide children with healthy foods in a fun container. The planet box is an eco-friendly, customizable lunch box designed especially for children and their growing needs. Planet Box