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In school it was most students’ nightmare to be assigned yet another brand identity project.  It seemed like every class, every semester, assigned branding or re-branding projects.
A professor of mine once pointed out that we were doing that assignment so many times because it is hard to do.  On paper, it [...]

Happy Birthday to Co-Owner of Border7 Studios, Ken Tran. A whole twenty-two today! You’ve gotten far for few years. Everyone is quite proud. Keep it up and make this year is twenty-two times better than last.
Design

50 Incredible Examples of HDR Photography: HDR is amazing and, at times, weird. I’d like to see a whole movie [...]

Remember: Border7’s celebration for this year of business and it’s amazing clients is tomorrow! Saturday, September 26th, at the Rancho Santa Susana Park in Simi Valley. We all hope to see you there!
Design

NotePods: Notepads that look like iPhones. Kinda fun.
Blue Retro Grunge Text Effect and Icons: I think they used my couch as a [...]

Happy Talk Like A Pirate Day tomorrow! Why does my birthday have to be adjacent to a day like that? Kind of sad. I want them to be the same day! Do not forget that Border7 is celebrating this year of business and it’s amazing clients! Saturday, September 26th, at the Rancho Santa Susana Park [...]

Design

Horizontal Navigation Menus: Trends, Patterns, and Best Practices: A good look at what to do and what not to do. This post also brings about some nice design points and also points of organization and structure.
Swiss table slices into portable workstations: It’s the simple but interesting things in life that still amaze me. How come [...]

Design

If Famous Graphic Artists Were Web Designers…: Some interesting work here for both art and web design. I’d really suggest giving this a look. It may inspire you a bit, too.
8:00 A Typography Project: This is clever. It would really get those designer/imaginative juices flowing right when you start your day.

Development

Learn 3 Excellent JavaScript Libraries [...]

Hello! For all you vector lovers, here’s a freebie! Full vector file (.ai) of some of the dinosaurs and cavemen characters we use in our site and materials! Do what you like with them! Put them in a funny scene, have a pokedino battle, send them off to college.. oh they grow up so fast! [...]

First off, Happy Sysadmin Appreciation Day too all of you System Administrators out there! For those of you that don’t know, check it out here. Now to what is known as For The Win Friday:
Design

Mastering Custom Brushes: I’ve recently become addicted to making my own Photoshop brushes, but I haven’t tried this method.

Quick Tip: Preparing [...]

It’s been a bit since an update, but we’ve gladly been busy. We’ll try to keep up on the blog more.
Design

50 Examples of Vintage Typography : There are some interesting old ads. Typography is a very important part of design and these fonts can really spark some inspiration.
How to Make a Typographic, Retro, [...]

This week has been intense and I didn’t get much time for reading. But here you go.
Design

Designers Creative Solutions for Necessary Error Pages: a list of fine examples. Personally I like ours.
CSS Basics: A really good place to go for CSS.
30 Creative Illustrative Website Headers: A good list of really nice headers.

Business & Freelance

8 Signs [...]