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    The Future of Web Design is Now

    Ryan Barresi

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    In order to stay relevant, designers, developers, and clients need to start thinking about the Web in a whole new way.

    There are three specific catchphrases that are going to help usher in this new era: HTML5, Progressive Enhancement, and Responsive Design. These are the foundations upon which Web design and Web applications will build their future. Bold statement? Sure is. Keep reading—I’m full of them. And on that note, feel free to contradict me; I’m willing to learn. More

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    New Faces at Loewy Design

    David Loewy

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    If you’re like me, the week after Labor Day feels like the start of a new year. We’re done with vacations, the kids are back in school and a new season is just around the corner. September’s all about new beginnings – it’s a launch pad for fresh ventures and adventures, and Loewy Design is ready with key additions to our ground crew.

    In the past few months we’ve grown our lineup to reinforce our talents in technology, design, strategy and account management. Our core team – David, Donald, Marc, Selina and LeAnna – is proud to welcome new faces and assets on board.

    On the technology side we’ve added Senior Developer Nitin Menon as our tech lead. Nitin’s expertise and skill sets include application development, e-commerce and content management systems. He specializes in PHP, MySql Databases and Cold Fusion. Nitin brings with him over 8 years of experience from interactive agency Big Buzz.

    We’ve tapped Executive Producer Angela Florie to manage our internal and external growth as our client roster continues to expand. Angela hails from TMP Worldwide, an interactive agency specializing in online marketing and communications. Angela provides strategy, marketing and account management and helps us stay on track and on budget.

    We’ve strengthened our design team with Senior Designers Casey Bartholomew from Big Buzz and Ryan Barresi from NBTY. Both top web designers with diverse talents, they provide strategy, information architecture, design and front-end development. We’ve also hired new programmer Ellie Roepken, who specializes in PHP, content management systems and front-end development, and designer/front-end developer Jason Friedberg.

    We’ve been working hard this summer on many exciting startups, redesigns and online marketing campaigns – and also on building our group and fine-tuning our process. Now, we’re thrilled to kick off fall with the right team for what’s next, fully powered up to do what we do best – offer complete online branding and marketing solutions.

    Meet our new teammates.

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    The Easy Way to Track Down a Stock Image

    Casey Bartholomew

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    Your flaky freelance designer has abruptly closed up shop to go backpacking across Europe, leaving you without any assets or files from your business collateral or website.

    After partnering with a new, reliable agency, you need to track down your favorite stock photos used in all of your business collateral–but how?

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    Success can be designed

    Donald May

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    I have always had the belief that design was a utopian endeavor to be undertaken by the smartest people in the world to solve problems. That designers were by nature helping the world evolve toward better, more beautiful, more sustainable, and more useful artifacts and services. I believe in my soul that this is true, but I also know it’s not enough. More

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    In e-commerce we trust

    David Loewy

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    If you own a successful brick-and-mortar store, you’ve built it by providing high-quality products or services to your customers. You’ve earned their trust for a variety of reasons: they found what they needed, they like your prices, their friends shop with you, you’ve been around for years…and so on. So how do you build the same trust and confidence with an online store? More

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    Social brand continuity

    David Loewy

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    Earlier this month I attended the Society of Digital Agencies (SoDA) conference in New York. The mission of SoDA is to advance the profession of digital marketing through education, discussions of best practices, and advocacy. The conference was billed as an “un”conference, which made the event conversational, collaborative—and at times a little too “un”structured. Still, it was a good experience. More

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    By the book

    David Loewy

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    I recently gave a lecture to the advanced web design class at Farmingdale College. When I met up with professor Jack Harris, he informed me that the kids, mostly juniors and seniors,  saw Loewy Design’s page in the Flash/Dreamweaver Genius Guide, and they were looking forward to meeting with me. A bit embarrassed and very flattered, I asked Jack what book was he talking about and where could I get one. More

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    Introducing… Verdana?

    Marc Acosta

    Introducing... Verdana?

    The outrage has been amusing to say the least and the vehicles for protest are the usual suspects: blog postings, twitter updates – even petitions … no we’re not talking about health care… we’re talking about something much more serious – typefaces! Specifically, Ikea’s recent decision to switch from using Futura, a classic typeface that they have successfully used for 50 years, to Verdana, a font designed for Microsoft back in 1996. More

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    Those digi-page-flipping-magazine things

    David Loewy

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    Recently a client asked us for our opinion on a Digimag (or whatever-you-call-it) service called Ceros. I’ve seen this technology grow in popularity over the years, and I have to admit Ceros has taken it to a higher plane. Their product and experience is rich with video, animation and interactivity – but so what. More

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    Designing with CSS3

    Marc Acosta

    Designing With CSS3

    Although CSS3 is still officially in the works, the recent releases of Safari and Firefox have given us a few new CSS tools to experiment with. Designers may specifically be interested in the following features that accomplish with a few lines of code, things that we would normally do with graphics. More

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