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A Guide to Responsive Breaking Points

A Guide to Responsive Breaking Points

A visual guide to media queries and breaking points for responsive design.Continue Reading

Educating Clients: a Tricky Process

Educating Clients: a Tricky Process

Educating clients is a hard but often necessary process. We usually start with a conversation.Continue Reading

Facebook Photoshop Template Updated for 160px Profile Pic

Facebook Photoshop Template Updated for 160px Profile Pic

Simple as the post title puts it… We’ve updated our photoshop Facebook timeline template for the 160px square pricile pic update rolling out on April 26th (that’s tomorrow!).Continue Reading

A Pinteresting Development in Social Media Icons

A Pinteresting Development in Social Media Icons

For our new set of free Social Media and communication icons we were struck by the twin inspirations (or “twinspirations”) of young leaves sprouting through the still-frozen, early spring soil, and Pinterest’s intensely visual nature to create Spring Leaves.Continue Reading

How I spent my Friday Evening Making License Plates.

How I spent my Friday Evening Making License Plates.

A couple of weeks ago, I was lucky enough to spend my Friday night making license plates for one of our clients. Read on to find out how you can make one of your own!Continue Reading

Free Photoshop Template for Facebook Timelines

Free Photoshop Template for Facebook Timelines

Download our free Photoshop Template for Facebook Timelines – complete with custom smart object support!Continue Reading

Flyby Social Media Badges

Flyby Social Media Badges

Before Americans went to the moon or astronauts orbited the earth, test pilots like Chuck Yeager, Gus Grissom and John Glenn risked their lives to kick start the Space Age.

Now you can honor these brave aviators every time someone visits your Website, with these retro-stylish social media and communication icons.Continue Reading

Phases Design Studio Introduces Uplinks – Our First Icon Set!

Phases Design Studio Introduces Uplinks – Our First Icon Set!

Social media and communication buttons for your blog or website. The power of the web is the power to connect with other people. Our new icon set allows you to access that power with simple, stylish, straightforward buttons. Uplinks: Social Media and Communication Buttons make it easy for visitors to your site to follow or friend you,Continue Reading

Create a high quality QR Code

Create a high quality QR Code

Enough with the low resolution, web only quality QR codes; we just have to recreate them when you want to put them on a print project. So… Here’s a handy tool to create vector QR codes for all your hip and modern print collateral! Enjoy! Your browser does not support iframes.Continue Reading

10 Tips for Effective Small Business Web Design

10 Tips for Effective Small Business Web Design

Small business owners often feel compelled to design and build their own websites rather than hire designers, coders, writers and the other professionals and experts who make their livelihoods on the web. Remember, though, a bad website will actively hurt your brand, your company, and your bottom line. DIY websites often have a host ofContinue Reading