Color and mood: A rainy day pick me up.

We are facing another rainy day in St Louis today and greeted by a rather gray sky again this morning it got me thinking about color and mood. For me gray is most definately a mood downer. I like bright vibrant colors and a blue sky with bright sunshine is an instant pick me up.

So if the St Louis weather is not going to cooperate today how about this for a digital pick me up. This was designed using Adobe Illustrator and is currently being incorporated into a dynamic iGoogle theme called color punch. It is not yet in the Google themes directory but you can get it via inthemes



If you are interested in Meaning and Associations of color read one of our previous posts

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We started our blog in June 2005 and nearly three years later are still going strong.

You may find this blog intresting if you are looking to hire a web or graphic designer, you are interested in web site usability and search engine optimization or are a web/graphic designer looking for some tips and tricks.

Today I am going to talk a little about the sort of subjects we cover here for any of our new readers. Each of our posts are given one or more label to categorize them so I thought it would make sense to talk about our categories:-

• Design Snippets
  We cover subjects here that are useful to graphic and web designer. For example Meaning and associations of color, What is Ipsum Lorem and Favicons.


• Eye of the St Louis Web Designer
  A picture speaks a thousand words and most of the photographs we feature in this section are of something that has given us inspiration, from a fabulous natural color palette to a great texture or pattern. As mentioned thoughtout these posts a designer's eye never sleeps


• FREE
  Who doesn't like free stuff. We cover everything from free custom i google designs, the free definition phase or our projects to our much visited recipe for a garden deer repellant.


• Graphic Design projects
  A showcase of graphic design projects, from brochures, letterheads, banners, menus, logos, newsletters, greeting cards and packaging.


• Indigo Tips
  Tips to improve your productivity and internet experience


• Internet marketing
  The ever changing world of Search engine optimization.
  
• Logos
  A showcase of our logo design
  
• Project Progress
  We multi task big time and this section illustrates the current projects we are working on


• Random Thoughts
  I think everyblog needs a section like this..a little bit of everything here..and as the title suggests ...random


• STL Marketing executive
  A category written by our guest writer. He shares perspectives drawn from his experience of branding, global business management and marketing in a B2B environment.
  
• Web design Projects
  A showcase of our web design projects


• Web Site Usability
  Considerations for giving your site visitors the experience you want them to have.
  
  

Eye of a St Louis web designer

How's this for a birds eye view of a cardinal's nest built right outside my kitchen window. The mother has been sitting on the nest for about a week now and get food visits from the dad to be...he feeds her baby style.



Last year we had a robin's nest in the same place and it was fun to watch the babies being fed. I will post more pictures as these new St Louis cardinal babies hatch.