As the next major tool in the internet world, Google Wave will combine social media, email, instant messaging, and more into a single platform. Will this affect the traffic of social media sites if Wave extensions offer as much flexibility as the sites themselves?

Ah, it’s finally here! The follow-up article to “Designing a Logo: Creative Brainstorming”. This tutorial goes over the visual process of designing a logo with your hand and giving it the vector treatment using Illustrator or another vector pen-based graphic program that you have.

Have you ever sliced a layout, only for it not to be grid-aligned once it’s scripted? This post explains what to do in this situation to restore the appearance of the website. Thanks to Eric Puidokas, there is a program that adds a grid overlay in Firefox itself, and in combination with Firebug, you receive [...]

This is the beginning of a new blog series I’m started based on doing brand identity design / a website from start to finish. Stay tuned for additions! Brainstorming! I’m going to introduce a two-step process for generating ideas effectively to further your skills in creating a brand. Given that you are working for a [...]

I was sitting in the office today and heard about a phone call, inspiring me to write this post. The client wanted us to write the company history. Now, not only did we not know the history, but the content of your website is the reason the website exists and should be written with care, [...]

So I have finally switched to the new Ocular Harmony skin. Seems like change really is “in” this year. The aim was to have a more sleek, professional website feel so it can appeal to a large audience while making it easier to navigate. Here’s some of the things I’ve done: Changed the background to [...]

Alright, so seeing someone having a drag at a bus stop may not be the most appealing sight in the world; however, some of their package design can be. It’s rare that you see cigarette advertising because of the legality issues, but through packaging, many tobacco companies managed to make profit because of their design. [...]

Rumor had it that Twitter was going to charge for premium accounts. But those new “Sparrow”, “Dove”, “Owl”, etc… subscriptions have been proven to be fake. Way to get false publicity. But what if twitter did charge? How would people react? The original micro-blogging platform isn’t ad-supported, has no donation box, and has no ‘premium’ [...]

When a person looks for a designer, it’s important to know what to look for. I’ve been hired in the past for projects requesting to do things outside the project guidelines. Where this can be something that is flexible and can usually still be done, it is important to know what to look for and [...]

Sonic Youth – The Eternal It’s official, The Eternal will be released June 9th on Matador Records. The sound of the album is claimed to be a combustion of all their material from the dissonance of their s/t album to the poppy tunes of Rather Ripped. As Murray Street and Sonic Nurse had the ‘quintet’ [...]