For the exciting launch of Subway’s new falafel sandwich.
Blueprint Design Studio is exploding with new work, and we want to grow our team of passionate WordPress Designers and Developers. If you’re looking to create a better web with WordPress, we want to hear from you!
Blueprint Design Studio is exploding with new work, and we want to grow our team of passionate Creative Designers. If you’re looking to create a beautiful web experience, we want to hear from you!
Blueprint Design Studio is exploding with new work, and we want to grow our team of passionate WordPress Designers and Developers. If you’re looking to create a better web with WordPress, we want to hear from you!
September 20, 2010 – 2:29
Custom web site design for Northwestern University’s simulation laboratory at the Feinberg School of Medicine.
Camp Lincoln and Camp Lake Hubert,100-year plus history of creating fun and adventure in Minnesota’s lake country.
The largest non-profit alcohol and drug abuse treatment and prevention facility in the nation, each day they treat more than 7,000 persons in over 150 residential and outpatient programs throughout ten states.
Buddy Guy’s Legends boasts a reputation as one of the nation’s premier blues clubs.
February 27, 2010 – 10:05
Tour Resource Center is the premier web site for golfing advice and events to assist you to become a pro-golfer.
November 12, 2009 – 10:42
One of the biggest problems facing mobile internet surfing is Flash based content. However, this is soon to change. Flash CS5 (code name “viper”) is now under development with features that will enable it to create applications for mobile devices using action script 3. According to Adobe Labs, new features will include: Applications for iPhone [...]
We love Jquery here and use it a lot. Here’s our breakdown of ALL the jQuery options available today. Feel free to add more that you find in our comment section.
For many, the name “Photoshop” is associated with one of the most advanced photo and image manipulation software platforms ever created. From this comes Photoshop for iPhone. Released October 8th, this new (and free) application developed by Adobe Systems allows users very basic Photoshop editing tools on the go. According to the product page, the [...]
Due to its convenience and the innovation for experimentation that computer tools have given designers over the last few decades, it makes it appear as if graphic design relies on the computer. This is a misconception often made by those who aren’t designers and who don’t fully understand the history of design. The computer is [...]
Menus are advertisements. Effectively designed menus “sell” food for their restaurants in many different ways. (you can read further on this in one of our previous blog posts What Makes a Restaurant Menu Design Effective?) As we all know however, ads can be misleading. Advertisers will use all sorts of tricks to persuade someone to [...]
Typography is a powerful and important design element when it comes to communicating visually. Each character has its own unique and intrinsic qualities that evoke different expressions and messages. When used correctly, typography can be extremely effective. It is always important to push the boundaries and rules in design. However, creativity with no direction or [...]
The internet has grown to become an immensely important factor in modern life influencing the way we communicate and the way we handle much of our business. Consequently, its growth has caused some negative effects on the printing industry. The newspaper industry for example, is being threatened of becoming a dying industry because of the [...]
Going through our bookmarks here is our list of most useful links for inspiration or guidance when creating a concept. Whether you are just getting started as a designer or you are a designer with creative block these links will be sure to help. Web Design Tutorials The Ultimate Roundup - This is a great article from Hongkiat showing some [...]
The phrase Web 2.0 can mean several different things. I’ve heard many different descriptions ranging from, “using the web as a platform” to “anything that’s cool and on the web right now!” I would say that It is an internet era that gave birth to a design style. As you would imagine, most of the [...]
Illustration by Justin Rodriguez WordPress is possibly the cheapest and best optimized Content Management System out there today. WordPress and search engine optimization (SEO) guru, Joost de Valk of yoast.com. says, “Out of the box, WordPress is a pretty well optimized system, and does a far better job at allowing every single page to be [...]
Is Burger King’s new ad for their “Super seven incher” a risky business decision or just another step down from their creepy “king” mascot ads? While linking sex with food is not exactly a ground-breaking technique in the advertising industry these days, this is no subtle sexual innuendo. Albeit Quiznos has their “toasty torpedo” [...]
Co-written and image by Justin Rodriguez People read websites in an F shaped pattern. Why is this important to know? The more aware you are of how people will be reading or scanning your website the more effectively you can layout the information on your pages. This knowledge can help you place important information and [...]
Co-author, Rebecca Dirkse Are you the type of person who likes to skip brainstorming and outlining and simply jump into your project or writing? That process of working can be a real headache if there is a lot of content to discuss and organize. The same is true for designing websites. The best way to [...]
Patch Landscaping is a Lawn Services company that needed a web presence and improved lead generation.
Yesterday I had to add some custom forms to a WordPress plugin called Google Maps Store Locator for WordPress (version 1.2.28) and found it’s not as straight-forward as one might expect. After about forty-five minutes of digging through all of the plugin’s files, I located four that were of use to me: /store-locator/view-locations.php /store-locator/add-locations.php /store-locator/generate-xml.php [...]
Applying perspective is simple. However, it is unknown to many – and it shouldn’t be. Many of my students are stumped when they come across applying perspective to a simple vector object in Adobe Illustrator (in this case, CS3). Using the “Free Distort” filter seems to be the solution that many use. However, those of [...]
Recently we were featured on Chicago Area Startups ranked as #34 for overall traffic in the Chicagoland area. We have been in business for over 3 years and the growth that we have seen has been amazing. and we are very greatful to our clients for giving us the oppertunity to assist them with their [...]
Build a Content Slider with jQuery A cool Jquery content slider to add to your site. View the Demo Get the Source Code Design a Unique Grungy Website Layout The web is filled with grunge web tutorials well here’s one. We like this not so much for the overall result [...]
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