Forgive us the cheeky headline but you’ll understand why we don’t quite understand the fuss around remote work and the endless debate over how long it’ll last, what it’ll do to morale, how it’ll impact a company’s fortunes and so on. At Nayamode, we’ve practiced a hybrid work model for well over ten years and […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
…..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 […]
