Category Archives: Entire Lush Blog
Dreamweaver CS5 – Dynamically Related Files
This is just a quick note to say I’m really excited about Dreamweaver’s new functionality to help call up dynamic files. I’ve been working with Wordpress for over 3 years and I’m quite familiar with it’s file structure. However, recently I started playing with Magento and not knowing the structure as well, the [...]
Adobe CS5
As a long time user of Adobe products, their product cycle seems to go like this: One version of great innovation creating lots of holes in performance, functionality and stability, and then the next version plugs those holes and we’re all happy again and can’t wait for the next version. Well we’re at [...]
Social Media rankings
As a company, we have seen the first clear shift for us in 2010. Social media outlets like Facebook are increasingly being used as the primary vehicle to drive promotions and contests within the business-to-consumer channel. Just last month we completed 2 projects on Facebook where the point of entry for the contest was exclusively [...]
A fool of the highest calibur
Galactic Tiger Squad HQ was rocked today with threats of malicious hackers operating in the area of the squad’s offshore outpost, a floating arctic base built by . A hacker operating under the moniker “Lora Filops” sent a transmission in the early morning Mocking the GTS and claiming to hold the outpost for a ransom [...]
What happened today
Seems we’ve done a good job today. A client asked Ryan how best to motivate Lush Concepts and he jokingly suggested candy.
So today we were greeted with a delivery of all the chocolate we can(not) possibly eat. Two glass jars came in brimming with Creme eggs and Mini Eggs and most of us are now [...]
Pictogram Design Examples
We have recently been working on a project that involved researching pictograms. I came across this showcase, and even though it’s in German, I found it interesting to see the different treatments of pictogram styles. Some are necessary, and some, well, not that necessary and seem more comical than anything else. You’ll [...]
Navigating the Social Media Landscape
You can’t escape it, everybody’s doing it. Add me as a friend… follow me on Twitter. It’s what everyone is talking about. Social Media is all about sharing information & opinions in an uninhibited way. It’s about spreading news to potential clients and having conversations with existing ones. As the use and prevalence of social [...]
Web Design Trends in 2010
Our friends at Web Designer Wall had a great article web design trends in 2010. Basically it seems to me that through all the 300 modal box scripts you can download, and 50 zillion “AJAX” slideshow scripts; one thing remains. Content is king. And as we look forward to 2010, we see [...]
Beautiful PSA. Buckle Up
Here’s a low-budget public service announcement from the UK created by the Sussex Safer Roads Partnership. This to me is beautiful and an award winning piece. Its got the 2 elements I love most in an ad; a very primitive simple idea that communicates the message in an extremely emotionally clever way. Some of the [...]
What does the iPad mean for online advertising?
Love it or hate it, the release of Apple’s iPad definitely did one thing – it further entrenched Apple’s position of not supporting Safari based Flash content. There have been attempts to workaround this fact, but the reality is that it doesn’t look like Flash will be supported anytime soon.
With the majority of online advertising [...]
Wax on wax off, Ramsey-sun
Ramsey “Grand Leiks” D’Silva is a Gyso, an alien race from a still undiscovered galaxy. He is also a member of the Gyso Army, a sort of galactic police force ensuring peace and order in the universe. While on a mission in our galaxy his ship ‘The Troisck’ was attacked by Gravity Pirates. Most of [...]
What’s Up Guy
Guy Crawford: “Former genetics research scientist turned vigilante, Guy “Exo” Crawford had his life changed when his reseach grant was taken away by the government. Guy was head of the “Human exoskeleton” research team. He lost his grant and his associates but not his passion for the project. Without any means of hiring test subjects [...]
Thomas Girard: Smarter than a Robot
Thomas Girard: “During the great cosmic wars of the 3200’s, Thomas “Dr. Umbra” Girard defected from the Cosmic Tiger Squad and begun putting his own plans in moton. Backstabbing his former allies in and leaving earth helpless he retreated to his orbital space platform and began putting his mysterious plans in motion. Although he [...]
Ask Dave Boyle
You will soon discover why the TRUE most interesting man alive is Dave Boyle:
Dave Boyle “Raised in the darkest jungles of Africa by a pride of Hyenas, Dave Boyle was known as “The wild boy “When discovered in the early 3100’s. Armed with the cunning and razor sharp instincts distilled in him by his Hyena [...]
Check out Adam Winick
Adam Winick: “The supreme lord of his dimension known as “The X Zone”, Adam “Overlord Cranus” Winick fought valiantly against all foes and ruled his people with a just hand. A fight against Roboxtor left him frozen in crystal and sent to our dimension leaving the X zone to fall into chaos and ultimately perish. [...]
It’s Aimee Racine
Aimee Racine: “The last in in the bloodline of ‘The house of the Pale Moon’, Aimee “Lone Sparrow” Racine is a swift and deadly warrior. Her ancestors in the Pale Moon were known as the fiercest warriors of all the great ninja clans before being forced underground when sieged simultaneously by the other major ninja [...]
Who Is Ryan Payne
Ryan Payne “An advanced android built eons in the future and sent back in time to save mankind from the fate that has caused the world to be ruled by the evil overlords of centuries past, Ryan “RP5000″ Payne is programmed to right history’s wrongs. Upon returning to the year 3157, he founded the group [...]