Monthly Archives: July 2012

Roaring For OS X Mountain Lion

  For those of you who were anxiously awaiting the arrival of Apple’s new OS, Mountain Lion, you needn’t wait any longer. That’s right – ‘sometime in July’ (Apple’s über specific launch date) turned out to be today, July 25. Mountain Lion, the ninth installment of OS X releases, is available for a mere $19.99 [...]

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Happy Belated Birthday, iPhone!

On June 29 of last month, the iPhone celebrated its 5th birthday. Did that sentence just fill you with nostalgic flashbacks of using the GPS-enabled Maps app for the first time (pure magic) or playing Angry Birds? Well, it shouldn’t. The original iPhone didn’t even have GPS capability and Angry Birds wasn’t released until a [...]

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Welcoming Our Newest Designer, Valerie Soares!

Formcode Design Group is officially +1 as of today. Born in Midland, MI and now a native of Royal Oak, Valerie Soares is the newest designer to join our little operation. We sat down for a brief but lovely Q&A to introduce you to Valerie. Enjoy! So where did you go to school? Columbus Colege [...]

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New Goldfish Swim School Website Makes a Splash!

Having designed Goldfish Swim School’s website back in 2009, we both thought it was time for a visual overhaul. After a few months of hard work, testing, tweaking, and all of the other fun stuff that goes into what we do, we are happy to present you with the new and improved Goldfish website. With [...]

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The New DEAL

In working with Deal, we gained a client who wanted a website dedicated to featuring their clients. Kevin D. Poston is the CEO and President of Deal, an elite athletic management team based in Farmington Hills, Michigan. Among some of the team’s acclaimed athletes are Charles Woodson (Green Pay Packers), Andre Carter (New England Patriots), [...]

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Lovin’ Local Businesses

The talk of the town lately (outside of Justin Verlander’s courting of Kate Upton) has been Amazon’s interest in creating a software development center in Detroit. The move would make Amazon the third high-profile Internet firm to come to our lovely state in recent years. In 2007, Google opened an advertising sales office in downtown [...]

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A Trip Around the Color Wheel (design edition)

The psychological effects of color are bizarre, intriguing and downright inexplicable most of the time. For instance, people are more relaxed in green rooms. Weightlifters max out higher in blue gyms. Red is often used in restaurants because it is an appetite stimulant. These findings may seem completely arbitrary, but researchers attest to their accuracy. [...]

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Google Chrome Gets Its Mobile On

If you had gone to the App Store anytime in the last week, you would have noticed a new #1 among the top free iOS offerings, and it didn’t take very long to happen. Just released last Tuesday and made available on June 28, the new Google Chrome browser for Apple’s iOS is quite the [...]

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Roaring For OS X Mountain Lion

  For those of you who were anxiously awaiting the arrival of Apple’s new OS, Mountain Lion, you needn’t wait any longer. That’s right – ‘sometime in July’ (Apple’s über specific launch date) turned out to be today, July 25. Mountain Lion, the ninth installment of OS X releases, is available for a mere $19.99 [...]

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Happy Belated Birthday, iPhone!

On June 29 of last month, the iPhone celebrated its 5th birthday. Did that sentence just fill you with nostalgic flashbacks of using the GPS-enabled Maps app for the first time (pure magic) or playing Angry Birds? Well, it shouldn’t. The original iPhone didn’t even have GPS capability and Angry Birds wasn’t released until a [...]

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Welcoming Our Newest Designer, Valerie Soares!

Formcode Design Group is officially +1 as of today. Born in Midland, MI and now a native of Royal Oak, Valerie Soares is the newest designer to join our little operation. We sat down for a brief but lovely Q&A to introduce you to Valerie. Enjoy! So where did you go to school? Columbus Colege [...]

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New Goldfish Swim School Website Makes a Splash!

Having designed Goldfish Swim School’s website back in 2009, we both thought it was time for a visual overhaul. After a few months of hard work, testing, tweaking, and all of the other fun stuff that goes into what we do, we are happy to present you with the new and improved Goldfish website. With [...]

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The New DEAL

In working with Deal, we gained a client who wanted a website dedicated to featuring their clients. Kevin D. Poston is the CEO and President of Deal, an elite athletic management team based in Farmington Hills, Michigan. Among some of the team’s acclaimed athletes are Charles Woodson (Green Pay Packers), Andre Carter (New England Patriots), [...]

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Lovin’ Local Businesses

The talk of the town lately (outside of Justin Verlander’s courting of Kate Upton) has been Amazon’s interest in creating a software development center in Detroit. The move would make Amazon the third high-profile Internet firm to come to our lovely state in recent years. In 2007, Google opened an advertising sales office in downtown [...]

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A Trip Around the Color Wheel (design edition)

The psychological effects of color are bizarre, intriguing and downright inexplicable most of the time. For instance, people are more relaxed in green rooms. Weightlifters max out higher in blue gyms. Red is often used in restaurants because it is an appetite stimulant. These findings may seem completely arbitrary, but researchers attest to their accuracy. [...]

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Google Chrome Gets Its Mobile On

If you had gone to the App Store anytime in the last week, you would have noticed a new #1 among the top free iOS offerings, and it didn’t take very long to happen. Just released last Tuesday and made available on June 28, the new Google Chrome browser for Apple’s iOS is quite the [...]

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