Adbase Interview July 01, 2010 11:05 am Posted By: echodesignlab Head over to Adbase to hear me rattle on about stuff. Thanks to Juliet for the chance to share. Check out FoundFolios for inspiration and innovation. [read more]

More Recent Works May 11, 2010 08:18 pm Posted By: echodesignlab [read more]

Design your code: part one May 10, 2010 08:20 am Posted By: bytedissident I’m just going to jump right in, after years of coding and developing in various languages the one thing I think needs saying more than anything else is that code like everything else needs to be designed. Your code is not devoid of an esthetic so it’s up to you as the programmer to define [...] [read more]

Some new stuff May 09, 2010 06:31 am Posted By: echodesignlab We have had a busy month in the studio again, working with Rykodisc on 2 new packages, moved into a new, bigger and better studio space, and creating the logo and identity for an old victorian B&B in upstate NY. We are also editing another photographers book, someone I worked with a long time ago when [...] [read more]

Echo Designlab Featured April 25, 2010 04:47 pm Posted By: echodesignlab Echo Designlab will be featured in two upcoming books in Europe. The first for Red Publishing and the second for MONSA Barcelona Publications in Spain. They will both showcase the work we have done through the years for the music industry. I saw some early spreads, it will be a very nice showcase and it [...] [read more]

Getting to work April 25, 2010 04:30 pm Posted By: echodesignlab With Spring comes a move to our new studio, more light (I’ll be okay don’t worry) more room and more work to do. We had our first photoshoot in the studio with Megan McCormick on Rykodisc for her new CD which we are working on now. It was nice to be able to climb out our [...] [read more]

iPhone Ad Hoc Tutorial March 21, 2010 03:30 pm Posted By: bytedissident I decided to quickly write this tutorial on doing an ad hoc because it seems like a pain in the ass, but it’s really pretty simple as long as you you follow a few steps. I’m going to assume you know how to generate a distribution provision the iPhone Provisioning Portal and go from there. Step [...] [read more]

Encapsulation March 19, 2010 11:51 am Posted By: bytedissident “the process of compartmentalizing the elements of an abstraction that constitute its structure and behavior; encapsulation serves to separate the contractual interface of an abstraction and its implementation.” – gary booch [read more]

Book and Portfolio Editing January 14, 2010 01:26 pm Posted By: echodesignlab Over the past 2 years I have been asked to redirect portfolios and books for a bunch of amazing photographers. As a Creative Director who has seen hundreds of books come across my desk at the companies I used to work for both in Advertising and in the music industry, I know what I like [...] [read more]

App Store Economy January 13, 2010 10:53 am Posted By: wheresyourmachine I guess that everyone already knows how successful the Apple app store has been, but when you see the data put together in this display by GIGAOM it really hits home. Check it out. Then talk to us about our iPhone Think Tank!! [read more]

I.D. Magazine R.I.P. December 23, 2009 04:17 pm Posted By: echodesignlab A design icon and amazing inspiration folds. link [read more]

jQTouch modification :: passing objects for callback December 15, 2009 07:53 am Posted By: bytedissident So I have been developing a few apps with jQTouch, an excellent plugin for the jQuery library. If you haven’t checked it out you should. Anyways, I wrote an app for a client over the past few days that featured a typical iPhone grouped table view. The table view in question has a 2 lists: [...] [read more]

Allison Moorer for Ryko December 13, 2009 07:46 am Posted By: echodesignlab Worked with Rykodisc to create this package for Allison Moorer’s new album Crows. We wanted to give the package a dark yet opulent quality so we found this great old turn of the century house in Staten Island (of all places). I hired Angela Kohler to take the photos of Allison, she did an amazing job [...] [read more]

Turn Me On December 06, 2009 09:54 pm Posted By: wheresyourmachine Every now and then there are certain small signs in innovation that happen that make you stop and take notice There is something about this new USB wall socket from True Power that really caught my eye. Maybe it is just the fact that a socket has looked the same since I can remember. It kind [...] [read more]

Writing a jQuery plugin November 30, 2009 09:50 am Posted By: bytedissident I assume if you are reading this you are already a jQuery convert. If not you should be. As someone who has been writing Javascript for more than 11 years I’ll sum it up in two words, “It Rules”. That said one of the smartest things John Resig and his team did was make jQuery [...] [read more]

iPhone: Creating Static Libraries November 23, 2009 10:33 pm Posted By: bytedissident Static libraries are particularly useful when you are developing applications for a client who is handling the submission process and you need to deliver your xcode project, but want to keep your source code private. The process is pretty simple and I’ve tried to make this tutorial a simple step by step process. Enjoy! Step 1: In [...] [read more]

draw the line November 19, 2009 11:34 pm Posted By: bytedissident Overview: This is a drawing app that takes the artist David Gray’s art and allows an iPhone user to create drawings/collages both with pieces of his art that exist in the app as well as their own drawings. The user can then upload the finished piece to Twitter or save it in their photos library. [...] [read more]

appetite:: For Music November 19, 2009 11:32 pm Posted By: bytedissident Overview: This project is fairly large and has a number of components, but in a nutshell is a framework for creating apps for bands (the music industry) quickly with the added ability to easily add custom modules to the sytem . The apps share content and the displays include: iPhone, Facebook, widgets as well as [...] [read more]

Old School November 14, 2009 04:23 pm Posted By: echodesignlab I have been designing and creating images for over 15 years. Anyone designing today who grew up in the 80’s heavily in the music scene most likely shares my love for the likes of Vaughan Oliver, Neville Brody and Peter Saville to name a few. They continue to amaze me and their influence as well [...] [read more]

Week round-up November 14, 2009 03:55 pm Posted By: echodesignlab It was another busy week in the studio, We finished up the new CD for Ryko artist Allison Moorer, launched the site for the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) Both projects very different but both very rewarding. I am gearing up for a few busy weeks heading into the holidays. Balancing between [...] [read more]