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Creating WordPress 3.0 Compatible Themes
It’s about that time. WordPress 3.0 is just around the corner. Taking advantage of all the new features will require a compatible theme. While working on this transition for Organic Themes, I stumbled across a couple helpful articles. I’m providing the links as a reference for myself and any others struggling with finding information on [...]
Is Flash Dead?
Maybe not, but the boat is sinking and I’ve abandoned ship.
Coming from an animation background, Flash was a natural progression for me. Using the timeline, keyframes and animation tools instantly made sense. Flash made simple 2D animation a breeze. Which is what the program was designed to do. For better or worse, designers and developers [...]
Doing What You Love For A Living
I love creating design for a living. I love the aloha lifestyle. I love working for myself. I love being able to surf when the waves are perfect. And once you’ve tasted that freedom, it’s hard to consider doing anything else no matter how difficult times may get. It can be done. With some risk [...]
A Few Free Corporate Vector Icons
This is a small, but useful set of three free vector icons. I illustrated the icons quite some time ago and decided I may as well offer them on the site. The shapes have not been merged, so you can edit the icons to your hearts desire. You can even make them in to totally [...]
Muku Releases The Structure Theme, A Free Minimalist WordPress Theme
Muku is proud to announce the release of a set of free premium minimalistic WordPress themes, the Structure Theme. The theme is based on a clean, modern and minimalist aesthetic that lends itself well to customization. If you would like to have the Structure Theme installed or personalized to match your brand, we encourage you [...]
The Wrong Kind of Web Exposure
Muku Studios gets a decent amount of exposure, but it’s almost all within the art and design community.
I’m not complaining. That’s something we take pride in, but a graphic designer isn’t usually seeking graphic design services from another designer. I often receive emails from people that are fans of our work, or applying for jobs [...]
Microblogging Is Easy, Or Is It?
I’ve recently been trying to use Twitter on a more frequent basis. I wasn’t exactly scared to use it, or attempting some lame high-school rebellion against the social media explosion. I would just stare at that box of 140 characters and think, “who really cares what I’m doing?” Especially if all I’m doing is coding [...]
5 Tips to Recognizing a Good Logo Design
Recently, against my better judgment, I decided to enter a logo design contest. Not the kind of competition where the winner is awarded publicity or recognition (those are good). Instead, I entered the type of contest in which many logo’s are submitted for a project, and the buyer awards the winning logo with some kind [...]
Maui, Yipeeeee!!!
Muku Studios has recently relocated from Oahu to Maui, and we’re loving it! There’s no traffic, no crowds, tons of open land and empty waves; Maui rocks! We’re really excited to be experiencing a new environment and focusing our energy on new design projects. We are located in Lahaina and interested in meeting new people [...]
Benefits of Wordpress
A few reasons why we think Wordpress is the future of the web.
5 Basic SEO (Search Engine Optimization) Tips
I don’t claim to be an SEO expert, but I have learned a few basic tricks to increasing web traffic that I’d like to share. In this economy, we need all the exposure we can get.
1. Flash Sites Are Bad, Mmmm Kay?
I love Flash sites. They are very fun to design and develop. Like a [...]
New Logopond Status Icons
Sweet! When uploading new logos to logopond, there’s now the option to choose the status of your logo. The status options are as follows: In Use By Client, Unused Proposal, Student Work, For Sale and This Was Done Just For Fun. This minor change has renewed my interest in logopond.
Lately, it seemed a majority of [...]
Sleek New Wordpress Theme Design
Thank God for Wordpress. It’s still no easy task to design and develop a Wordpress theme, but it beats re-programming an entire new Flash site any day. My focus has been all over the place for the past few months. Any blog updates I’ve made on Muku Studios have basically been a lame attempt at [...]
We The Steeple Book Cover Design
My brother, Elliott Morgan, recently completed his first novel, We The Steeple. Like a good brother, I designed the cover for his book. We The Steeple is a dark and haunting Christian based tale written in a similar vein to Frank Peretti. I designed the cover to have a haunting appearance, drawing from the imagery [...]
Muku Launches Discover Garden
Muku Studios recently launched our sister site, Discover Garden. The site is dedicated to Hawaii adventures, activities, locations and Aloha spirit. We cover a variety of topics for locals and visitors alike. The site is constantly updated with fresh and fun new content. Muku designed and developed Discover Garden. The site is powered by the [...]
Free Flourish and Vignette Graphic Set
Finally, more free stuff! This is a set of about 25 flourish and vignette JPEG files. The images are all black and white. If you want to convert them to vector just drop them in to Adobe Illustrator and perform a little “live trace” magic. Hopefully you can find a good use for them.
Old Muku Flash Sites
I have a problem. I’m addicted to design. I have designed several versions of the Muku website, all of which I have grown tired of after a relatively short period of time. As a matter of fact, I’m sick of this current design for Muku. The only reason I haven’t re-designed the site is because [...]
The New Pepsi Logo
My initial reaction to the new logo was disgust. It looked to me like they gave their previous logo to an 8-year-old playing Mario Paint and just waited for some kind of result. Only the 8-year-old was paid millions of dollars to re-brand the face of Pepsi. However, I have to admit it’s growing on [...]
Muku Moves to Media Temple
In case anyone visited Muku last week and was welcomed with a beautiful blank page, our hosting service was down. I used 1and1 hosting and was no stranger to it going down for an hour or 2 every now and then, which was enough to be upsetting. However, this time our hosting was down for [...]
Free Nature Vector Shapes
Muku Studios will be offering a monthly free download. This month we’re offering a free vector set of leaves and various nature elements. The shapes are not for resale. Enjoy!
Download here.
