I rarely come across a website that captures my imagination… and Spectra did it for me. I just saw this site by accident while browsing through another site. Spectra is msnbc’s visual newsreader. So instead of showing text and images, spectra presents this differently, via spiral and colored boxes (according to the [...]

Big news on the internets is Yahoo’s brave new look. It is on the rollout globally, but from what I’ve been hearing only some countries can accesses it today. In the Philippines, we can actually click on their “try out our new look” banner which will lead you to the new design, as [...]

Ironically, I saw this link on top of Gmail: “Wired Top Stories – Google’s Data Culture Drives Designer Crazy, and Out.” Of course I had to click on it. It turns out that Stopdesign founder Douglas Bowman is leaving Google as its Visual Design Lead. According to his blog at stopdesign, he [...]

Here’s a nice post over at one of my favorite blogs, 37signal’s SVN.
They answer the question: “Do I need a designer..?” And I love how they answer it:
“… start thinking of them [web designers] as someone who decides what goes where, which form elements to use, how to split features between screens, what words [...]

 Now online a new website for The Blue Leaf Events Pavilion. The Blue Leaf is an elegant place to hold your events and is located in McKinley Hill inside Fort Bonifacio Global City. They have 3 pavilion sizes which you can choose from Jade, Silk and Banyan. We are still tweaking the music [...]

Another one for the our portfolio, Bigby’s Cafe and Restaurant is a franchise that started in Cagayan de Oro which now expanded to other provinces like Cebu, Iloilo, Bacolod and Davao.  Bigby’s serve a variety of international dishes at affordable prices.  It is positioned between fine dining and fast-casual dining.

We actually made the website over [...]

Today Novare Technologies puts version 2 of its website online.  This goes alongside the new brochure released a couple of weeks ago.  The design revolves around what I would call “swooshy swirly thingy”.

But there is some logic behind that, the idea actually came from the previous photo materials that Novare used.  These were light waves [...]

Although still a work in progress, the Isdanco Foundation website is now up and running. This is Perlas Design Studio’s latest addition to our portfolio. Isdanco Foundation is a non-profit organization with a purpose of “teaching people how to help themselves.” Their initial program is the Center for Aesthetic Studies, a school dedicated [...]

That banner says it all. The survey is pretty painless and I thought the questions were relevant enough to get a good gauge on the web design industry and the professionals that work within it.

Great web designers need great email hosting on our Microsoft exchange server.  Exchange outsourcing with our exchange server hosting package will [...]

Here is a list of the winners. I didn’t get to bring home the “Best Blog Design” title, that went to well deserved Far From Neutral, but I didn’t come home empty handed. Adobe Users Group Philippines (AUGPhil) raffled off a license to Adobe Studio 8 and I was the lucky ticket holder! Whoowee. [...]