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PortlandEye Design Studio
Wishing you the best this holiday season.
In this Issue

Eye Design studio is...

about graphics that grab you.
about creating contemporary designs with the standards of elegance and simplicity.
about conveying the philosophy and stature of a company graphically.

Visiting a website, receiving a newsletter or seeing an ad produced by Eye Design Studio informs the viewer about the client through the rich language of form and color. Research has revealed that verbal communication is the smallest portion of how humans make assessments and form first impressions. The look of a label, an announcement, a logo, can establish an immediate sense of trust — or distress, a feeling of desire — or rejection, and an assumption that behind the visual there is a professional — or an amateur. Eye Design Studio combines this knowledge with the client's own style and purpose for each and every project.

Services Include:

  • Website Design
  • Website Re-Design and Maintenance
  • Email Newsletter Campaigns
  • Logo Identity Work
  • Cards
  • Invitations
  • & More....

Some recent favorite finds Droste Tin

I love to share good tips and tidbits when I come across them so here are a few of my recent favorites…

Entertainment

dailycandy.com - FREE Daily Email

The ultimate insider’s guide to what’s hot, new, and undiscovered.

Tunes

Pandora - The service creates a streaming radio station based around your favorite artist or song, so it’s easy to change up your music menu.

podbop.org - Enter your city to find find local gigs and listen to and then podcast or download the tunes right to your desktop.

Food

Signora Bimbi's Double Dark Chocolate Torta - I just made this fabulous dessert form The Splendid Table Bakers Chronicle.

Epicurious – For people who love to eat.

My new favorite drink is Sipping Chocolate inspired by a European tradition from Trader Joes — it’s decadently rich and tastes just like the hot cocoa I had in Paris a few years ago and it comes in a cute tin to boot!

Web Design Tips

Google Analytics – Sophisticated. Easy. Free

Google Analytics tells you everything you want to know about how your visitors found you and how they interact with your site. You'll be able to focus your marketing resources on campaigns and initiatives that deliver ROI, and improve your site to convert more visitors.

Color

kuler.adobe.com - Adobe has created a slick flash app for creating color themes to use with creative suite apps.

COLOURlovers™ - Is a resource that  monitors and influences color trends. COLOURlovers gives the people who use color – whether for ad campaigns, product design, or even in architectural specification - a place to check out a world of color, compare color palettes, submit news and comments, and read color-related articles and interviews.

Skype! – Take a deep breath.

Chat up a storm. I love this chat and voice program and use it to chat with friends oversees and locally.

Firebug Web Development Tool - Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.

E-Maill

How to avoid Junk Mail? Obfuscate it!

I have frequent requests for what to do to reduce junk mail so read all about how to avoid it on the website. E-mail Obfuscator is an online tool for webmasters that obfuscates e-mail addresses that you enter, making them less vulnerable to spammers who use e-mail harvesting software, also called spam-bots.

Gmail - Gmail launched MailFetcher, a great new service that allows you to check all of your POP email accounts within the Gmail interface. This means regular old emails sent to sarah@smith.com or even sarah@yahoo.com can actually be opened in the Gmail interface.

HTML E-Mail

Email marketing for small business - The seven habits of highly effective email marketing
part 1 part 2

Humor

Kill some frustration with good ol’ bubble wrap (web version)

Cats - All in good fun…..

Stuff on my cat

Teasing Cats Clip – This one  always makes me laugh even though I’ve watched a  few items.

Recent Project Highlights:

Websites

Email Newsletters

Thank you for reading my first newsletter!

Drop me a line to say hi or if you have any projects
you would like to discuss…

Wishing you a Happy Holidays and a Great New Year!

Warm Regards, Shona Eye Design Studio

artisan handcrafted graphic design for web & print

3435 NE 45th Avenue, Suite G Portland, OR, 97213 email eyedesignstudio.com
T 503.285.2782 F 503.335.5880

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