Little Box Of Ideas

  I am very excited to announce our very first contest here on the LBOI Design Blog. See that picture of me immortalized forever in all my cartoon glory? Well, that is the handiwork of John Mascarenhas who is also featured in "Artist Spotlight" today. John is an amazing illustrator with a very unique style.

John Mascarenhas has style. There is an innate dark, tongue-in-cheek humor element in most of his brilliant illustrations. He has been sketching since he was 7, but much to the chagrin of his grandmother who was an artist and rendered beautiful paintings effortlessly, John was into cartooning and the humorous side of the spectrum. He

  Twitter is a funny one, yes it is. It is highly malleable. It bends and twists to suit your needs. And though it might not feature on any of those lists that design bloggers love to concoct as a place to find inspiration, it definitely is one such place on the web. I find

My first interaction with Greg was on Brandstack [formerly Incspring]. Back then I only knew him as Veep, an excellent talented logo designer who had a friendly infectious charming manner and who knew what he was talking about. A little digging led me to his website "Oh, so this is Van Paul!" was my first

I recently completed my first full-blown illustration. It took me a good few days to get it right. It is the face of my food website and blog and is called The Sweet Goddess. When I started sketching this gorgeous creature, the hair was much bigger and accomodated an entire orchard of fruits. There were