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Monday, 8 February 2010

Australian Infront have a great little interview with Rone of Everfresh Studio. Everfresh has gained great notoriety in the city of Melbourne with a large collection of public paintings and even the National Gallery of Australia has acquired some of their work. They are legends within the graffiti scene - and you've no doubt come across some of their commercial work, with Phibs' work for Absolute Vodka and Meggs pieces for Stussy. They are putting the legitimate graffiti scene on the map with great credibility and talent. A large task, especially in a city where there is a war fought ...

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Cool things we found

Thursday, 3 December 2009

Mash Facebook with YouTube and Flickr, and you have The Profiler, a website that lets you discover more of the things you find interesting, and the things your friends find interesting. It pulls various bits of data from your different online profiles and
http://www.theprofiler.be/

Just as in the real life Red Bull Soapbox Race events, which happen all over the world, Less Rain's site allows users to create their own uniquely designed vehicles online in a 3D garage, and then paint and decorate them with go-faster stripes and bumper stickers. Along with looking good, the design and construction of ...

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Avoiding "Death by Powerpoint"

Monday, 17 August 2009

I hate Powerpoint, I really do. It's unintuitive, difficult to use, its tools and layout almost encourages you to create horribly boring presentations. Unfortunately it is the way of the world, the industry standard, a necessary evil, I suppose - and there is not much we can do about it.
So recently I've been working on some presentations we are giving at some industry events. My job was simple, I was given a draft powerpoint file and was instructed to 'Do your creative thing'. Now, although my first instinct was to do away with the Powerpoint file and make ...

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Simple steps to bring your website up to date

Thursday, 4 June 2009

Although it’s easy to pass off web design trends as they come and go. It’s clear there is definitely a contemporary late 00’s trend going on at the moment. Mostly consisting of good use of white space, large fonts, large images, reflections and bright buttons, we’ve put together a little guide for design features which will immediately bring your site visually up-to-date.

Obviously these tips and tricks are not there to replace updating your website, but they are definitely a great temporary solution when you want to look current, as it might be a difficult time of year for a ...

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Choosing better stock photography

Thursday, 23 April 2009

One of the more common mistakes I see in web design these days is the overuse of stock photography.

It is an instant downgrade on what could have been a great bit of design.

You could have fantastic headings, logos, navigation, useability and copy.

And then plonking ‘that’ cheesy businessperson with the big grin, can instantly unravel all the hard work.

When possible, use original artwork. If you have the resources available, get illustrations done or have a photoshoot done.

If the budget, time or situation doesn’t allow for this, and you need to delve into the boring cookie ...

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Website launch checklist – 11 things to check and recheck

Wednesday, 8 April 2009

Okay, so you’ve got your great new design. The code is tight, and the content is all there and approved. Now you’re all ready to push that upload button, but hang on there – there’s just a few things you should check off this list before the big launch.

11. Meta tags
Have you put in the relevant keywords and description? You’d be amazed by how often this is forgotten even on high budget websites by big agencies. This will affect your sites performance exponentially. Make sure this is done!

10. Favicon
More of a style choice ...

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So what the hell is all this stuff about Twitter?

Monday, 6 April 2009

Twitter is getting a LOT of media coverage these days. It’s almost a bit scary. For something that’s been around for sometime – its funny how the traditional media has pounced on it as the next big thing (a little bit late). Facebook I guess isn’t newsworthy now, so I guess they have made the jump.

So what exactly is Twitter? Well until you use it, it’s really hard to get your head around it. Comparing it to Facebook doesn’t help either – on paper they seem very similar: social networking tool, status updates, mobile updates etc etc.

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