Gracepoint After Five

Continuing the topic of art and inspirations, we’ll be discussing about some recent work that we did and what inspired us. Acts2fellowship, Koinonia, and Kairos (three Christian fellowships) will be hosting a huge event — New Student Welcome Night — on the UC Berkeley campus this Wednesday and Thursday. In the past, we’ve always faced the [...]

When Coldplay released their music video for Strawberry Swing, it immediately became a hit. It’s the perfect mixture between the artistic creativity and the audacity to even attempt such a project (it’s all chalk) — not to mention the quality of the music (my personal favorite next to Viva la Vida) — that allowed this [...]

Count me in as a believer of online sensation Twitter as a viral marketing tool to draw traffic. PunyPNG recently saw a spike in traffic because we were tweeted by @comunicadores, who happens to have 14,000 something followers. The spike in traffic affirmed the conventional marketing wisdom (and Gladwell’s Tipping Point idea: Connectors) that quality [...]

By designer, I don’t merely mean a graphic designer, but a UX Designer, UI Designer, Web Designer, Interaction Designer, IA, Usability Specialist; they’re all very much one and the same thing. If you’re a web shop, how to hire one? What to look for? Is a resume and portfolio sufficient? Ultimately, we’re just trying to [...]

Smashing Magazine has a great article on PNG Optimization techniques.  The dirty transparency technique is awesome, and I started running tests on our internal assets at Ask.com and Gracepoint Berkeley, and we’re seeing some significant savings.  Just when I thought PNG compression was all there was to it, Sergey Chikuyonok (the author of the article), [...]

I finally released punypng to the world last week.  It’s a free png compression service that intelligently leverages multiple open-source png compression algorithms in the hopes of making the web  more puny, one png at a time. Try out punypng (as a short url: http://www.punypng.com works as well) How punypng came about punypng actually started [...]

Last week, Otty my trusty senior designer that leads the Dictionary.com design work sent me a website I never seen before, http://mydictionary.myresources.com.  The shocking thing is that bears an awful resemblance to our Dictionary.com homepage! Errr, rip off?  The funny thing is that they tried to change the colors around and removed some content to [...]

Necessity has worked in such a way that we’re going to be quite serious about launching this blog. Necessity, you ask? Yes. There is a burning in our veins to add one more blog to the already bloated blogosphere, contributing our voice to an already information-ed out generation. Actually, what’s really driving us is that [...]