by tintin | Sep 27, 2016 | Culture, Uncategorized
In 1988, I worked as a graphic artist for Hanlon Brown Design. Things were a lot different 28 years ago. First of all, there were 4 employees, not 18 as currently employed full-time. Paste-up work was still a reality, copy was sent out for typesetting, and Lettraset...
by Gail Snow | Aug 16, 2016 | Design, Technology
As a nationally certified, diversity-owned company, HB Design is able to build relationships with leading corporations, generate prospective business and clients, and collectively team with other diversity certified business for contracting opportunities. As corporate...
by Gery Teague | May 4, 2016 | Technology, Uncategorized, Web Design
Why do some programmers argue for old solutions like sprite sheets when they are far worse? Here are some reasons why you shouldn’t use sprite sheets.With the rise in the popularity and use of new web technologies like html5, css3, and ecma5.1-based JavaScript,...
by noelhenneman | Apr 25, 2016 | Technology, Web Design
Development tools for responsive web design are getting better all the time. Unfortunately they are not always obvious. Recently one of my co-workers showed me how Google Chrome has a great tool for showing how a web page responds to changing view port sizes. Well I...
by Leslie Worth | Apr 20, 2016 | Culture, Design, HB Design, Our work
This is the last poster of our series. BackgroundThe 1980s. As a designer, I’ve had fun with fashion, especially during the 80s while I was in my 20s and studying design in Cincinnati. Fashion was my most expressive and obvious form of creativity. I wore my...
by Cindy Brandt | Mar 30, 2016 | Design
BackgroundThe 70s… a period of time that most people associate with “interesting” color palettes, disco, feathered hair, and a departure from the settled times of the past. Being a designer born in the beginning of the 1970s, 1972 specifically, I...
by Kristi Hauke | Mar 30, 2016 | Design
BackgroundI’ve always had an itch for going against the grain and speaking up for what I believe in. The 1960s time period spoke to me because I think back then, there was an air of taking controversial issues head on. It was a time of counterculture and free...
by Anita Wendte | Mar 21, 2016 | Design
BackgroundI have a love of jazz and Blue Note Records album cover artwork. The 1950s were the heyday for jazz and Blue Note Records; and the graphic design of their album covers always had a certain look that embodied the spirit of jazz.I enjoy listening to and...
by Noel Henneman | Mar 7, 2016 | Design
BackgroundAs a child, the first things to make me aware of design were the monster magazines that were enjoying the end of their heyday. The boldly painted covers and wildly creative typography drew my eye and inspired me to start drawing my own letterforms.In those...
by Leslie Worth | Feb 29, 2016 | Design, HB Design, Our work
The graphic design team at HB Design recently completed a series of infographic posters to hang in our front lobby.I assigned each of the designers a decade, and asked them to design a poster with the following requirements:Choose a subject that interests you within...
