Eric Paul Snowden is an artist and designer living in Brooklyn

Posts filed under Design

Our Mobile Artist Websites Mentioned in Billboard Magazine, on m.Adobe.com and MobileAwesomeness.com

Over the last few months the mobile websites we’ve been building at Atlantic Records have gotten some positive attention, and I wanted to share a few nice pieces of press. The mobile website for Trey Songz was mentioned in a Billboard article last August about artists connecting directly with their fans. It specifically mentions the [...]

Launching Mobile Websites for Artists

Last June we launched a group of mobile websites along with Adobe for their Flash 10.1 for mobile announcement. Since then Mike Mignano, Jackie Balzer and I have made frequent updates to the framework to give our artists the most feature rich and portable sites in the business. We’re now in the process of rolling [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

Rob Thomas Android Launch

Today we launched a new version of Fanbase on the Android platform. Rob Thomas is our first artist, but we have launches planned across several WMG labels coming in the next few months. This compliments our Nokia and iPhone implementations of Fanbase Mobile and ads one more touchpoint to our group of desktop, social, mobile [...]

Free Web UI Sources

Mashable has collected 10 sets of great UI templates for Photoshop, Illustrator and Omnigraffle. These sets include everything from icons, to skin-able vector buttons, to browser specific form elements that can really speed up the prototyping process. The posts get a little redundant if you go through the entire list, but there are definitely some [...]

Open Screen Project

This may have been up for a while, but it’s new to me. We’ve been working closely with Adobe for a few years on their multi-screen initiatives and are now officially a member of the Open Screen Project. Were listed among some pretty impressive partners and are glad to be part of the project. In [...]

Creating Brand Guidelines

This week Smashing Magazine has a great overview for creating Style Guides for brands and websites. It covers the basics from Logos to color treatments, and even gets deeper into grid and icon use for websites. A comprehensive list of beautiful visual examples and related articles. A must read for designers who are new to [...]