http://www.pixelube.com Pixelube - Seattle Web, Print and Brand Design Thu, 05 Aug 2010 23:28:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is, of course, a hard argument. So many albums, so much beautiful art, design and illustration. There are a few that stick out that in my mind that shouldn't be missed; what about Pink Floyd's "The Wall", or Queen's "News of the World" ? I can think of hundreds ... http://www.pixelube.com/2010/07/best-album-art-and-design/ Lifehacker, one of our favorite web destinations, has posted a comprehensive article on regaining your original privacy settings on Facebook. If you’re at all concerned about much of the privacy issues that have surfaced via the press as of late, I’d encourage you to take a look at Whitson Gordon’s ... http://www.pixelube.com/2010/05/facebook-regain-your-privacy/ With website design coming in an easy second, logo design is my favorite. For as many logos as I’ve created, regardless of the many years and experience, I always find myself chalk full of anxiety at the outset of a brand project. There was no exception when the folks at ... http://www.pixelube.com/2010/05/pixelube-works-with-seattle-company-to-modernize-logo-and-brand-design/ Wow, get this, after 28 various marks we then honed in on the final. From there we created 192 variations of the same logo. This, of course, included localization, 1 color and print/rgb versions. Once the logo was complete we had the pleasure of working on additional collateral which helped ... http://www.pixelube.com/2010/05/microsoft-oem-brand-logo-design-redmond-neighbors/ What’s up with these new gizmos - so much buzz and hype! It may actually be for good reason. I don’t yet own one of these devices but, believe or not, I had the privilege of designing one of the first apps to launch with the iPad. We pretty much ... http://www.pixelube.com/2010/04/the-ipad-the-kindle-and-the-nook-will-they-influence-a-paradigm-shift-in-our-approach-to-design/ We’ve just been informed that one of our latest logos (Intoxica) has been selected for LogoLounge’s, soon to be published book LogoLounge Volume 6. Not to toot our horns but this years lot was made up of an incredibly competitive judging session with over 34,000 logos entered for consideration. We’ve ... http://www.pixelube.com/2010/04/pixelube-logo-design-intoxica/ Thanks to the folks over at iPad Peek you can get a quick preview of how your site renders in the iPad both landscape and portrait modes. The web preview has a few limitations. There, of course, is no touch scrolling, ads turn into pop-ups and flash will still render ... http://www.pixelube.com/2010/04/does-your-website-look-good-on-an-ipad/ A couple years ago we had the pleasure of meeting and working with the folks over at BigOven. We collaborated to create the new brand and web site for BigOven.com. Since then the site has grown by leaps and bounds. They’ve launched a variety of new features, released an ... http://www.pixelube.com/2010/04/ipad-application-design-%e2%80%93-pixelube%e2%80%99s-first/ http://www.pixelube.com/2010/02/uievolution-website-design%e2%80%94clean-corporate-website-with-wordpress-integration/ A few weeks ago a client of mine shot me email indicating that he might be interested in creating an iPad application. By the end of that week my client was oozing so much enthusiasm for creating something that I was only happy to oblige. He already had a ... http://www.pixelube.com/2010/02/16-ipad-design-and-ui-resources/