Keeping Your Roots
One of the biggest complaints consumers have is that when a small company gets large and starts getting regional or national attention, the company sells their soul. You see this even more in the music industry when bands abandon their loyal, die hard fans and become commercial to sell more downloads & albums. Fans & […]
Redesigning a Logo
When you are redesigning a logo that has been around for years, the goal is not to simply improve the design. A designer doesn’t want to alienate a client that is already familiar with the brand and do away with the brand recognition that the company has worked hard to amass over time. One of […]
How We Save Franchises or Multi-Location Companies a Boatload of Money – and produce better marketing results!
We work with several franchises and companies that have two or more locations. Some companies, when they find us, are looking for a Marketing Partner while sometimes a single location will contact us about a single marketing issue – either way once they understand how we can help them (info below) – we save them […]
Lucy’s Retired Surfers Bar & Restaurant – Email Branding
Lucy’s Retired Surfer Bar & Restaurant is a great place to go for a drink and a bite to eat, but how do you know what is today’s special? As part of their branding and communication pieces, Design the Planet developed a weekly email for the restaurant’s two locations to update their customers about […]
Rotary International Convention New Orleans Website Design
Design the Planet has worked with the West Bank Rotary Club for over 8 years and their international convention is coming to New Orleans in 2011. The website is the main communication tool for the organizers because of the shear number of Rotarians needing the information from around the world. Our team has also added […]
The future of web fonts
Fonts have long been the bane of web design. For years, web designers were stuck with Arial, Verdana, Georgia, and a few others if they wanted a design that looked consistent for most users. If you wanted to get around the font issue and use something more visually appealing, your options were limited and often […]
Lucy’s Retired Surfer Bar
Lucy’s Retired Surfer Bar, the legendary place to hang out in the Warehouse District of New Orleans and in Downtown Baton Rouge, has a new website. Lucy’s is a unique place full of surfer inspired drinks and decor, including the Shark Attack, that needs a unique website solution. The fun of the bar & restaurant […]
An Internet Showdown!
In case you haven’t been keeping up with the tech news over the last few months, Google and Apple have been duking it out over the direction they see the web heading. It seems that Apple is more and more interested in determining how content will flow through its tubes. It claims that Adobe’s Flash […]
Lies, Damn Lies, & Statistics
By now, just about everyone has read about Google’s big anti-censorship push in China and throughout the rest of the world. Net censorship is a huge deal. Not just for citizens of the free world, but for the less fortunate living under authoritarian regimes and dictatorships it means the difference between freedom and tyranny. Being […]