Eric Paul Snowden is an artist and designer living in Brooklyn
Posts filed under Art
01/04/2012
Integrating Instagram into a WordPress Blog
With Instagram, I was a late adopter. Maybe it was resistance to using the iPhone as my primary camera, or filters anyone can use, or the idea that I actually would want to see my friend’s photos, but it took me a long time to warm up to Instagram. Over Thanksgiving, I spent some time [...]
12/12/2011
Canvaspop – Print your Instagram photos on Canvas
This week I received my first print from Canvaspop, a service that prints your Instagram photos on canvas, and I am impressed. The process was simply – login to the site, connect to Instagram and buy a print at pre defined sizes. There is even a LivingSocial deal going on right now where you can [...]
Shepard Fairey installing a new piece in Williamsburg
01/20/2011
Graphic-Exchange.com – Design Blog and Visual Reference
I rarely have posts that are just links to other design sites, but this is an exception. Almost every post curated by Graphic-Exchange.com is award worthy and it makes up one of the best design collections I’ve seen on the web. A great resource for designers of any kind and an endless source or inspiration. [...]
01/20/2011
Pinterest.com – Visual Bookmarking Tool
Pinterest is a bookmarking tool, introduced to me by Jenny Bowskill, that operates like a visual pinboard – letting you save images you like and follow people who share your aesthetics. Users set up categories (known as boards) and pin images by clicking a browser plugin or bookmarklet. Unlike some visual collections, a link to [...]
11/08/2010
Fast Company Design Blog
Fast Company has launched a design blog featuring some pretty eclectic posts. Everything from Infographics of the Mexican drug cartel, to hotel design from Paris and double sided peanut butter jars. Check out this article about innovative iPad design. Site design bu Scott Thomas of Designing Obama fame. View the Fast Company design site here. [...]
10/26/2010
Kickstarter and Designing Obama
Kickstarter is an amazing service for getting creative projects funded. I first discovered the site through the Designing Obama project, a beautiful book cataloguing the innovative visuals both online and offline for the Obama Presidential campaign. Kickstarter projects are broken up into multiple tiers with different price points and rewards for each. People can contribute [...]
03/09/2010
Notable – The Easiest Way for Teams to Provide Feedback on Websites
Notable Notable is a web and iPhone based service that allows team members to easily share feedback on all aspects of a website. To start a discussion you create a new project called a capture, or a set to hold multiple captures. Captures can be created from a url, by uploading an image, from an [...]
11/11/2009
Geekend 2009 Recap
This year I was lucky enough to be a speaker at the first annual Geekend conference. For three days last weekend self proclaimed geeks descended up Savannah Georgia for talks about design, social networking, technology and gaming. The keynote speaker Friday night was Aaron Draplin from Draplin Design. He set a hilarious, open and friendly [...]
11/01/2009
Believe the Hype
Branden Hall & Joshua Davis have created a new ActionScript 3 framework called HYPE, which simplifies a lot of complex actions in Flash like creating auto generating graphics, mouse followers and grid based patterns. Think of it as a how to be Joshua Davis toolkit. From the site: HYPE is a creative coding framework built [...]
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