Eric Paul Snowden is an artist and designer living in Brooklyn

Posts filed under Design

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 [...]

Atlantic Participates in Adobe’s Flash 10.1 Mobile Launch

Today Atlantic launched our first round of mobile websites in conjunction with our partners at Adobe. We launched 8 artist’s sites targeting Android 2.2 and Flash 10.1, with iPhone and iPod Touch coming later this month. This is a launch we were very proud to be a part of, and a project will be iterating [...]

Seen a font and want to know what it is? Check out What The Font.

Over the course of my career I’ve been asked (or have asked) “do you know what this font is?” hundreds of times. MyFonts.com has solved this problem by creating What The Font, a simple online tool that can identify fonts. You upload an image of a font, double check to make sure it recognizes the [...]

Usability Assessment of MySpace Apps Leaked

MySpace has never been know for its simplicity or usability. Fortunately for users they were trying to do something about it. Unfortunately for MySpace those documents leaked online. MySpace was seeing poor install and retention rates for their apps compared to Facebook and hired a usability team to make some web design and user experience [...]

CSS iPhone – Showcase of iPhone Formatted Websites

CSS iPhone is a great resource for well designed iPhone formatted websites. Good for anyone researching mobile web design and looking for inspiration. Check out CSS iPhone.

Flash Runtime Written Entirely in Javascript

Gordon is a open source Javascript based Flash Player written by Tobey Tailor that allows users to playback Flash content without having the plugin. It currently only supports Flash 1 & 2 so Actionscript users are out of luck. Right now browser support is pretty limited but it’s an interesting project worth keeping your eyes [...]

I Fight Dragons Website Launch

Today Atlantic Records, Photofinish Records and the WMG D2C team launched a new website for the Chicago based band I Fight Dragons. The six piece band plays Chiptune-Rock, which is one half rock music and one half original music made using old videogame soundcards from the Game Boy and NES. Beyond a fun site designed [...]

Helvetica and Alternatives to Helvetica

Fontfeed.com has a great article on Helvetica and it’s alternatives, reviewing several fonts that have a similar clean feel to Helvetiva without feeling so repetetive. Read the full article here.

Estelle Music Website Launch

Today we launched a new EOS powered website for Estelle. It was designed in house by Amy Stein and built by the D2F team at WMG in conjunction with Atlantic. Check out the site.