Eric Paul Snowden is an artist and designer living in Brooklyn
Posts tagged with Design
10/18/2010
Two Upcoming Speaking Engagements
Over the next two weeks I’m going to be speaking at two conferences, the MSUM College Arts Symposium and Adobe Max 2010. This week I’m speaking at Minnesota State University Moorhead about my work, current concerns for web designers and giving workshops for graduating designers. Wednesday, October, 27th I’m speaking at Adobe Max on a [...]
09/10/2010
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 [...]
08/24/2010
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 [...]
07/30/2010
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 [...]
06/01/2010
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 [...]
04/29/2010
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 [...]
04/28/2010
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.
04/20/2010
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.
04/13/2010
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.
04/12/2010
Talking about the iPad with Alternative Press
Check out my thoughts on how the iPad may effect the music industry at AltPress.com. Looks like I made the cut and was quoted a few times talking about the device. The interview was purely conceptual as none of us had seen the actual hardware, but I think everything we said holds up well post-launch. [...]
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