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 Hilary Reinmuth | Dec 14, 2015 | Inspiration, Uncategorized
I have recently taken an interest in architecture – it started a year ago during Design Week Portland when I went to a talk, spur of the moment, and happened to be sitting in a small room listening to a guy (Gordon Gill), who had a hand in building the TALLEST...
by Gery Teague | Nov 9, 2015 | Design, HB Design
Here at HB Design we love beautiful design, we love beautiful engineering, and we love cars, specifically cars that are both beautifully designed and engineered. Entering the parking lot over the years you wouldn’t be surprised to find American muscle like...
by Leslie Worth | Oct 19, 2015 | Culture, Design, Inspiration, Uncategorized
I saved all of my college design projects. The closet in my old bedroom at my parents’ house is filled with them. And during a recent visit, I found a particularly interesting one.This is the project – A toy, made of paper, with the design dependent on the...
by noelhenneman | Oct 12, 2015 | Technology, Web Design
Just recently we had a client ask how to optimize photos for the web. I have a post describing the steps which you can read (Web Page Load Times and Image Optimization). That post describes the steps: copy, crop, resize, and optimize. The “crop” step...