I was supposed to learn piano on it, but I never did. Ever since then I’ve had a real love of the the historic sound of electric organs. There’s something unique about the echoey, soulful sound of a great organ. This is a small collection of some of my favorite organ-driven tracks, ranging from kitschy …
Google recently announced the Google Daydream, in many ways its spiritual successor to Google Cardboard. If you’re not familiar with either of these things, let me catch you up. Google Daydream is a pillowy, high-tech headset you strap to your face that pairs with your smartphone to create a lo-fi virtual reality experience. It’s not …
Music can be helpful at work to block outside noise, to set a tone, and to create a clean mental space where I can start from. For me personally, it takes a particular sort of music to help do this. Too complex or unpredictable is just as distracting as flatly consistent and repetitive, so it …
Listen, you need some funk in your life. And not your average-grade, FM-dial-friendly funk. You need the finely-aged, top-shelf, extra funkiest cuts from the funk basement. You need music that feels OK to sweat to. Listen on Spotify Do you like discovering new artists as much as we do? Subscribe to the C3D newsletter to get notified …
custom web design and development to create a consistent look across your brand. For clients that don’t have a preference, we typically implement our own proprietary content management system that runs on Adobe ColdFusion. From time to time, we may encounter a client that is interested in using WordPress for their development platform—and that’s fine. …
This musing launched a long discussion here in the studio about the song Freebird’s place in rock culture, the history of people yelling it at concerts, and the wondrous world of live rock jams that never seem to end. And we thought: “We should make a playlist of those.” So this month’s playlist consists purely of …
I get it. It’s almost Thanksgiving. No one wants to hear about Halloween candy anymore. But that’s really the thing about trick-or-treat loot: it tends to linger around wayyy longer than you expect. So when two pounds of leftover Halloween candy got dropped on the snack production table the Monday before last, one single thought …
A responsive CSS framework is the combination of a style guide and a toolkit, used as a unified baseline to rapidly create responsive websites. Pros Rapid Prototyping & Development For some clients, the production costs of custom website development can come with sticker shock. Using a responsive framework that your developers can get familiar and …
What are SVGs? Scalable Vector Graphic or SVGs are image files that are viewable in a web browser. If you’re unfamiliar, pixel-based graphics (or bitmaps, to be technical) store visual information as a grid of pixels: very small squares of color. Any .JPG, .GIF, .PNG file is stored using some variation of this basic idea. …
This is the first of our two-part series covering “What We Learned at WordCamp Omaha”. Special thanks to the speakers, sponsors, and organizers for making our experience at the 2015 Omaha WordCamp the best it could be. Here are Andrew‘s takeaway’s from the developer sessions of day one of the event. Designers and Clients need to …