Motorcycle Photos and the Art of Branding

We are in the process of redesigning our Brick Factory website.  It has been slow going.  Client work competes for resources and we tend to over think everything when doing work for ourselves.  But we are getting there, and expect to launch our new site before the end of the year....

Screen size diversity and the case for responsive design

The increasing ubiquity of smartphones and tablets has lead to exponential grown in the percentage of visitors accessing the web from mobile devices over the last few years.  In a study of the mobile statistics of Brick Factory clients we found that site visits from tablets and smartphones has doubled every year the last three years. ...

New Brick Factory Study: 20% of web traffic now comes from mobile devices

There  has been a lot of hype about the rise of web browsing from smartphones and tablets over the last few years.  The research firm IDC projects that by 2015 more people will access the Internet from mobile devices than from desktops and laptops.

This is all important stuff for us to follow. ...

Yahoo! And the Art of Branding Gibberish

As I’ve mentioned more than once, designing logos is an awful way to spend your time. There’s no hiding. You’re out there in front of the client with your brilliant idea on a white sheet of paper as the marketing director and his recent and eager grads wait to ask probing and pointed questions about things they read concerning logo development last night....

27% of top college websites utilize responsive design

The last few years has seen a dramatic rise in people using tablets and smart phones to browse the Internet.  This explosion has made building websites more complicated, as web developers now have to make their sites look good on on tiny phone screens, Al Gore-style widescreen monitors, and everything in between....