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Blog au Roux

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…”

Previous entries about ‘Creativity’

Icon Fonts, Where Have You Been All My Life?

The thing about icons is that they’re everywhere, and they need to be. They provide a visual cue for something important or actionable, draw your attention away from gobs of text, and add emotion to what you’re presenting. As important, and essential to a website as they are, I’ve always found them kind of annoying to work with.

Why the World Needs Design

Design solves problems. How? Well, that stems from the objective definition of a designer. A proper designing mind requires an intuitive knowledge of the audience, a basic understanding of the psychology behind their behaviors, and a fine-tuned creative mind that seeks out solutions.  Thus, a designing mind can see the objective solution to a problem and then focus on devising another solution to convince an audience that it suits a need. A designer can see the question, form a hypothesis, and produce a theory. When applied, a designer formulates solution B to makes solution A have appeal. Therefore, design is an essential force in solving problems.

Mudbug Holiday Card 2009

Our holiday card was the product of an impromptu brainstorming session at the Mudbug Thanksgiving party. Turkey apparently makes great brain food, because Ashley Segari thought of the perfect phrase for our holiday card:

The Art of Illustration

Last week, Mudbug Media bought the designers something fun to play around with, the new Wacom Intuous 4 Tablet. Luckily it showed up just in time for an interesting illustration project I just started. For anyone who isn’t familiar with how Illustrator works this might not seem like a big deal, but for a designer like myself who prefers using hand-drawn illustrations, it means the world.