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The Three Components That Make Your Website

While working with clients, I find that there can be some confusion on what is required for a website, so I want to take a little time to spell out what the different components of are and how they work together. Today I’m going to cast some broad strokes and talk about the three main […]

New Web Site Launched: I Love NY Pizza – Wilmington, NC

You can really have no idea how excited I am to announce this one. We have launched the web site for a place I have loved for *years*; I Love NY Pizza in Downtown Wilmington. We played off the old and new designs for their iconic menu and came up with a web design that’s A) […]

Lobby Card Design

We saw this great lobby advertisement for the new Muppets Most Wanted movie. I thought it was a genius idea. Lots of people take photos of themselves goofing around with these posters, so Disney took advantage and designed this one so you could walk in and actually join the characters in the picture. Pretty cool […]

Sometimes, Design is Weird

An artifact from the Reagan administration. The 80’s were an odd time.

General News

Perhaps you’ve noticed that things look a little different around here. If so, you have a very sharp eye.

Paul Rand

Paul Rand Retrospective from Jeremy Cox on Vimeo. (video found via Jack Nack on Adobe) With all the fuss over the new Gap logo this past week, I thought it would be a good idea to point everyone to the master, Paul Rand. Rand designed logos for IBM, ABC, UPS, NEXT Computers, Westinghouse and a […]