http://www.bluejaydesigns.co.uk Think design, think Blue Jay Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:38:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Brand identity is no longer about a static and isolated brand marque that appears on the top right of letterheads and brochures. Any modern, dynamic branding system must now embrace highly digital and environmental applications – and this could not be truer than for the Olympics. In five years time ... http://www.bluejaydesigns.co.uk/2009/11/22/was-the-london-2012-logo-worth-the-400000-it-cost-to-produce/ Search Engine Optimization or SEO is the process of arranging the content and relationship of a given website in such a way as to maximize the way search engines perceive the site when a user performs a search using certain key words and phrases. There are several things to bear in ... http://www.bluejaydesigns.co.uk/2009/10/02/seo-in-plain-english/ It seems like even Photoshop isn't safe from our mad world these days, with politicians in the UK and France calling for legislation to regulate digital retouching, tucking, and smoothing of images in ads and other advertisements. The reasoning behind this madness is to police fantasy Photoshopping - as is all ... http://www.bluejaydesigns.co.uk/2009/09/29/should-photoshop-should-come-with-disclaimer/ Steve Jobs. It’s possible you may not have heard of the man — You will have noticed him though. He co-founded Apple Computers in the late 60’s, gave the world the iPod, Pixar, the iPhone and the modern GUI. But what of the man himself ? Today I am writing this ... http://www.bluejaydesigns.co.uk/2009/09/09/admiration-for-steve-jobs/ Do you want in at the start of something big ? Easily attainable realistic earnings of £35K+ — did we mention no upper limit ? You bring the sales skills and we provide the product. Join us now and earn up to 35% commission on every sale! The web is expanding faster now ... http://www.bluejaydesigns.co.uk/2009/08/21/we-are-expanding-%e2%80%94-we-are-going-global-do-you-want-in-at-start-of-something-big/ Whilst looking through the Worth1000 website I came across a Photoshop competition where artists were asked to imagine that the renaissance period in art with the monsters. There's some pretty freaky works submitted, and a lot of them are very good! One of my favorites was this scary looking Mona Lisa ... http://www.bluejaydesigns.co.uk/2009/08/11/monsters-in-art/ Here's something for you crazy art lovers. The Geostationary Banana Over Texas project hopes to put a giant banana over Texas. The artist behind the Banana Over Texas work is César Saez. Saez plans to put the banana between the high atmosphere and earth's lower orbit for about one month. It ... http://www.bluejaydesigns.co.uk/2009/08/01/geostationary-banana-over-texas/ For those that live on a dirt road and are tired of washing your car, why not take advantage of the situation and make art out of your dirty windscreens? That's what the artist Scott Wade did. He evolved from writing things like "wash me", to smiley faces, to intricately ... http://www.bluejaydesigns.co.uk/2009/07/26/dirty-car-art/ The Blue Jay team are very excited to announce our latest site. Blue Jay Systems was launched at the end of last week. The main purpose of the site is to let our new customers know that we offer far more than Graphic and Web Design services by providing a ... http://www.bluejaydesigns.co.uk/2009/07/19/new-site-launched/ Kenna's photography focuses on unusual landscapes with ethereal light achieved by photographing at dawn or at night with exposures of up to 10 hours. His work has been shown in galleries and museum exhibitions in Asia, Australia, Europe and the United States. He also has photographs included in the collections ... http://www.bluejaydesigns.co.uk/2009/07/14/kenna-photography/