Rethink and redesign your e-mail newsletter, ideas to get you started
Here at LimeRed Studio, we love food and we love eating out and trying new things! But what interests us even more is finding inspiration for our design work with nonprofits. So while we think about and savor new foods, we also think about people’s behaviors and what motivates them to choose to engage or interact and how it is influenced by the presentation of information and visual elements. Read More »
5 Steps to using your creative intelligence to get unstuck
Whether you’re trying to solve ongoing day-to-day problems or the most complicated design issues on a whiteboard, many times it’s unavoidable to simply hit a brick wall. Here's a 5-step process to get unstuck. Read More »
Introduction to Adobe Creative Suite (Part 1)
While working with our nonprofit and university clients we’ve discovered that many of them have Adobe Creative Suite (CS), but aren’t really sure what the various applications are for and aren’t aware of all of the ways Creative Suite can make their tasks so much easier. Some tasks, like opening files and saving them in a different format, aren’t very complicated. If you know how to do these types of small things—as well as a bit about how graphics work — you can save time and money by by handling them yourself instead of involving your designer. (Not that we don’t love the work!) Read More »
LimeRed Studio welcomes Demetrio Cardona-Maguigad as Strategic Design Director
I've known Demetrio for years, as a highly professional, thoughtful, smart and knowledgable colleague. His love for learning, doing good and online communications, combined with his honest, down-to-earth approach makes him a huge addition to the LimeRed team. We're excited to get started and see how we can make a big difference together. Read More »
The Loud, the Critical and the Hoarders: Types of users in online communities
We were recently tasked with developing a highly custom online forum. It would be a place where people would spontaneously create content and commentary about articles elsewhere on the site. Our would supply big topic buckets and the audience would fill them. Our client also wanted to include a low paywall for anyone wanting to comment or create. Read More »