The Trump administration has tried to intimidate law firms who have represented clients in matters it perceives as counter to him. Chief among these is a firm named Perkins Coie, which has drawn the administration’s disfavor because they represented Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign. Trump has wrung out compromises from several of the nation’s largest and … Read more
You’ve put a lot of effort into your firm’s website, so you want to make sure people are looking at it. We install software on most sites that pulls in data from Google Analytics. It shows simple graphs of web traffic, pages viewed, and other data when you log in to your website. The first … Read more
Steve put down his pen. A sixth-year associate at a big firm, he pulled on his jacket and stepped outside the office. Soundlessly down one carpeted corridor, then a turn, and a short trip down the next. He leaned into a doorway. Al was furrowing over his screen, desk piled high with paper. Steve said, … Read more
We’re proud to announce that DLS Design has won an award in GDUSA’s 60th anniversary American Graphic Design Awards™ for the website of law firm Elliott Kwok Levine & Jaroslaw. Among the many projects we do, we knew that our output on this project was special, and we were pleased that peers recognized this as … Read more
In the criminal justice system, websites will be needed by district attorneys who leave their jobs to start law firms. These are their stories. Every year, scores of lawyers working in public service make the decision to leave the government and set up private practices. Former prosecutors – AUSAs and ADAs among them – as … Read more
In the past several months we’ve observed several incidences of hacked websites. These are incursions by some malevolent actor who has added bad code to the sites, designed to boost search results for offshore companies selling merchandise that has nothing to do with the site’s owner. The merchandise might be legitimate or fradulent, but the … Read more
The Americans With Disabilities Act, or ADA, covers a multiplicity of things in the brick and mortar world, such as unobstructed access to buildings and offices, which need to be reachable and usable by all people, whatever their degree of ability or limitation. Here on the Internet, websites also need to be usable for people … Read more
Staring a new firm or business? Your website is so closely tied in with your business that it almost IS your business. Whether you’ve had the luck to find a great domain, or have simply come up a basic, but suitable one, it will now take on its own life as a digital asset. So … Read more
Too many plugins make your website harder to manage, can slow down your website, and can create conflicts and security risks. WordPress is offered to the public for free, and it lets anyone, from a beginner, to an experienced developer, create a good website. As a product, it’s offered “as is”, and contains a number … Read more
DLS Design, a New York based website and branding design studio, announces our 25th Anniversary! We wish to thank many wonderful employees, vendors and co-contractors, who have helped us create a number of stunning projects: websites, logos and other assets for our clients. And of course we wish to thank these clients – several hundred … Read more
On March 23, 2021, I was an invited speaker on a Zoom call sponsored by the Media Law Research Center (MLRC). The topic was “Website and Other Media Design to Comply With the ADA and Other Laws and Regulations”. I spoke about the brass tacks of ADA integration in web design — how we look … Read more
![Ed Benguiat, man of a thousand [type] faces, including his namesake font used on Stranger Things.](https://www.dlsdesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/benguiat-things-faux-tv-graphic.jpg)
Saddened to hear of the passing of one of my design heroes, Ed Benguiat, man of a thousand typefaces. His namesake font was used for the opening image, satirized here, of the TV series Stranger Things. Ed was my teacher at SVA right when the Benguiat typeface was published. The purpose of the class was … Read more
DLS Design won a Bronze Award in the Logo Redesign category of the 2018 Summit Creative Awards Competition. We created a new logo, website and marketing materials for Balansett, a consulting practice that helps organizations realize the full potential of their interior spaces. Read more about the logo here. About the Awards The Summit International … Read more
