So, as many designers know, sometimes the day to day can be a little… dry. While we take pride in the work we do for our clients, the Bluewave designers came up with a way to exercise their creativity outside of billable work – what we like to call Chompathons! Chompathons are creative exercises intended to […]
Benefits of a well-designed PowerPoint template
In looking for ways to produce visually stunning presentations for clients or end-users, Microsoft PowerPoint can be a design powerhouse. However, most users don’t make the most of PowerPoint’s design capabilities and miss out on the benefits that come with a well-designed template. Office suite’s “power users” – like the expert design team at Bluewave […]
The women behind design for everyday life
As we wrap up Women’s History Month, the Bluewave team has been focused on how women designers have shaped the creative world—in particular, the idea that good design belongs in everyday life. As Bluewave’s Design Director, Karen Kamberg, says: “[It’s all about]… our ability to take complex ideas and reduce them down to their simplest […]
Video in the time of Covid-19
Part of our series on “Marketing in the time of Covid”. Over the last several years, video has played an outsized role in most marketing teams’ arsenal. Clearly not a fad, and whether brought about by the explosion of YouTube, Vimeo and the ubiquity of high-quality video cameras (aka your smartphone), or just by shortening […]
10 changes after Covid-19
My thoughts on 10 ways (in no particular order) the world will be different after Covid-19. Business travel will decline dramatically and stay down. People have figured out that much of white-collar work can be done without meeting in person, and will choose that option going forward. Personal/leisure travel will rebound. You can’t really Zoom […]
DesignFAILS
CALLING ALL DESIGNERS! Here’s something fun, but important. As we know, Design is much more detail oriented than it may seem to some, and a lot of thought goes into the execution… …Usually. When designing something – anything really – it’s always important to try to imagine it from different viewpoints and situations, or you […]
Meaningful AI- Business Value in the AI Ecosystem
Nayamode has gone through many incarnations as a technology and design company; we’ve also seen many technology trends be birthed, grow, and even some die. When a company gets involved in the fast changing world of technology and technology-enabled services and marketing, it must perforce deal with a world that reinvents itself every few years. We’re proud […]
Trends in Design – Racing toward 2020
As we enter 2019, another decade fast approaching, we look at some of the upcoming and current trends in design – web, print, and across the board. The Return of the Serif: For the last few decades, the serif has seemed almost like a thing of the past, made for print layout and unimpressive online. […]
If a picture is worth a thousand words….
…..what value for a moving picture? It’s no surprise that video has taken off exponentially as a medium of communication. What started out as mostly an entertainment platform has become so much more today, especially in the corporate world. From inspirational videos, customer stories, to product or solution overviews, to more basic ‘how-to’, short and […]
The most selfish thing I ever did was to give.
Nayamode has had the honor of being listed as one of the Most Philanthropic Companies in WA state more than once. From our inception, we’ve tried to instill a giving ethic that has manifested itself in some distinct ways. We give financially as a company and we match our employees’ gifts of money to deserving […]