Author: Andrea Robinson
Andrea Robinson is an illustrative graphic designer who believes success is largely defined and attained by following your vision, doing work you love and working with people you enjoy. Andrea is known for her superpower to move calmly through crisis while helping others. She loves brilliant design, artists, the feel of paint on her hands, sun on her face and squishy sand between her toes. You will find her writing for small business owners on her business blog AT Design & Illustration.

Incapsula: Website Security Protection To Keep Cyber Cyclopee Out
Recently, I wrote a bit of a rant about the ins and outs of protecting your website from Zombie hackers, malicious code snakes and spammers in Keep Bleep’n Website Zombie Hackers Out. The key takeaway was that business leaders need to embrace the fact that our websites will be attacked by one or all ...

MyFitnessPal App: Helps Reduce Sugar & Calories In Your Diet
I am reminded that real bears live wet and wild on sugar after seeing this animation of bears drinking too much soda. I am also reminded of the hidden empty calories within some of our foods. I am working on eating clean and upping the ante on my fitness game. While my diet wasn’t all that bad (so I ...

Printed Magazine Creates An Augmented Reality Experience
I never thought reading a printed magazine would lead me to writing about augmented reality. Right before I went on vacation recently, I noticed a stack of print magazines piled up on my desk. Okay, let's be honest, it was a mini-mountain of magazines just waiting to be read. Why would I have so man ...

5 Ways To Help You Access Your Inner Creative Mind
Ahhhh...how tricky it is to control and access creativity from within the creative mind. Sometimes the noise of everyday life makes it difficult to turn the chatter and stress off. It is especially difficult when we need to produce, whether it is for fun or for a client. Channeling creative energy a ...

WinX DVD Ripper Platinum 6.9.2: A Review & Full License Giveaway
Do you use a ripper? The term “ripper” makes me chuckle because it just sounds like I am going to get all scare-fest on someone when I rip a DVD. It sounds horrifying, but it is not scary at all. I have been using a ripper for a few years now, and it is helpful in both my personal and professional l ...

Nextiva VoIP: What Business Owners Expect
Business owners have a few expectations when doing business with vendors who help them operate on a daily basis. One, they want a quality product with all the bells and whistles at a good price. Two, they want to receive excellent customer service and prefer to talk to real humans when they need som ...

CircleMe: Innovative Social Network Helps You Collect What You Love
Have you tried CircleMe yet? You might think at first glance, "NO...not another social network site," but when you take a closer look at CircleMe, you will discover that the creators have developed a more intuitive all-inclusive way to create your own socially relevant profile. You can shape your pu ...

Dan Winters Space Shuttle Photos May Singe Your Eyebrows
Let’s be honest, humans are suckers for awesome visual illustration and photography. I know I am, and maybe that is why I love Instagram. It pairs images with technology to tell our stories visually. I tell people unfamiliar with the app that I compare it to being a visual twitter. Since curiosity o ...

6 Game Of Thrones Emotional Character Illustrations
Are you addicted and missing the Game of Thrones TV show? Are you having withdrawals like me? If you don’t have a clue about the HBO-series Game of Thrones, you must go watch it now. I am dead serious. It is the best all around show on right now. The storyline is complicated and super good, well bet ...

Grow Your Own Bio-Customized Stingray Sneakers
I have to be honest. I had a friend who had a stingray in his home aquarium. Whenever he and his wife went on vacation, I was the only sucker... ‘er um... I mean volunteer who offered to feed the poor thing. I will never have a stingray for a pet, and I really didn’t enjoy feeding it all that much, ...

Up Close & Personal When The Argentina Iceberg Flips
Okay, have you seen this tourist video yet of the Argentina flip? Wow, that sounds like a dance move, but it is actually a glacier in Argentina flipping over while a boat full of tourists are passing by. I have actually watched this video a couple of times because there is one part that is just WHOA ...

Paintbrush & Candy Box Packaging With A Little Flavor Savor
I quickly get sucked into packaging design that embraces a genuinely extraordinary concept. These are design solutions that are more than practical and beyond functional where art and craft collide with commerce. I also take notice when graphics and illustration flow together on all surfaces of what ...

Award-Winning Advertising: The Three Little Pigs With A Twist
There are times when you watch a video and say to yourself, “Wow, that was a great concept and a well designed brand message.” The Guardian journalism news site has leveraged the changes in their industry from print to online media. While watching this three little pigs video, you can see that they ...

One Mom Geek’s Desire To Take A Caturday Nap
Recently Diana wrote a Caturday inspired post about Creative Cat Coffee Art and Peggy wrote What The Catnip is Caturday?. Since then, for some reason the word Caturday has stuck in my head. So this post is a bit inspired by cats and moms everywhere as we celebrate Mother’s Day.
My confession, all ...

A New Steampunk Font & Texture
I thought I would share this new steampunk font and texture resource that I discovered while researching another project from the type foundry, Fontcraft the Scriptorium. I have been purchasing their typography for awhile now to use in unique projects from the site of Dave Nalle who is a game design ...