Great Creole cuisine comes from the blending of cultural influences — French, Spanish, Caribbean and African — to create a truly distinctive and memorable taste. Our varied backgrounds allow us to share our collective expertise. As for Creole cooking, we start with one core piece of advice, “First you make a roux…”
Amanda Pate, creative director extraordinaire, has decided that a life of European travel is too good an opportunity to pass up. We’re all more than a little jealous (okay, a lot jealous) and – it must be said – a little bit hurt that our French Quarter view didn’t trump the Eiffel Tower. (more…)
A few weeks ago, Google announced that they would be entering the operating system market. While this wasn’t really a huge surprise to most people in the industry, it did come with a bit of a bombshell: Google Chrome OS will be the first “cloud operating system”. At this point, you may be wondering what on (Google) Earth does that mean? In a cloud computing environment, your applications and service are located in “the cloud” (i.e. The Internets) instead of being installed locally on your own machine. You probably use cloud applications every day. Some notable examples are Facebook, Gmail, and Flickr. There are many benefits to an operating system that fully harnesses the power of the cloud, which is exactly what Google sets out to do with Chrome OS.
Science and Engineering and Branding! Oh My!
I recently had the privilege of designing for Tulane University’s School of Science and Engineering (SSE). Every design project brings new and interesting challenges. Here are a few I faced:
Just in time for those people still trying to figure out how Twitter works and whether it is useful for business comes Super Chirp. So now instead of sending tweets to your followers, ‘chirps’ go to those people who have paid to subscribe to you. Yes, you read correctly. Super Chirp allows you to use an existing Twitter account to communicate with people who have paid to read your 140 character messages.
Design + Marketing + Programming
