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How to capture a screen shot on your iPhone

I discovered this feature on my iPhone accidentally. To do a screen capture on a iPhone, all you have to do is: Press the lock button and the main button at the same time. Your screen capture image will appear as a new photo in your photo album. It may come in handy for developers [...]

Posted: March 16th, 2012 | Design, Tutorial | No Comments ›

iPhone: How to Set Up Automatic Email Signature

On the iPhone email application, the default signature for all outgoing messages is “Sent from my iPhone.” This is pretty generic since many people have an iPhone today all around the world. The good news is that this default signature may be customized. Follow the simple steps to create your own customized Signature on your [...]

Posted: March 7th, 2012 | Blog, Tutorial | No Comments ›

Create a HTML Signature in Apple Mail on Lion OS X 10.7

Are you are running your Mac on Lion, Mac OS X 10.7? You want to create your own HTML Signature in Apple Mail? You are in the right place. This tutorial is for you! Many people have been having trouble setting up their own HTML signature for Apple Mail on Lion, Mac OS X 10.7 [...]

Posted: February 11th, 2012 | Blog, Tutorial | 9 Comments ›

Scooter Showroom – Follow Up

Finally the scooter showroom construction is complete and here is a product shot taken inside the finished showroom. This poster is used as a sticker decal on the company elevator door. The photo was taken with my Canon 30D and was designed to fit onto the 2 panels of the elevator doors. This poster decal [...]

Posted: December 1st, 2011 | Blog, Design | No Comments ›

Always Coca-Cola

On a recent trip to Hong Kong for a business meeting, I spotted this wonderful Coca-Cola delivery truck outside my client’s office. I couldn’t help but to pull out my iPhone camera to snap a picture of it. This is a very well considered and creative advertisement design. Best of all, it put a smile [...]

Posted: October 18th, 2011 | Blog, Design, Personal | No Comments ›

Scooter Showroom – 2nd Take on Interior Decoration

Having designed the cafe for the decorative lighting showroom, I was asked by another company that manufactures kick scooters and tricycles to help design a showroom to display their products. Designing a meaningful and useful space without having to spend too much time and money was my goal. My client’s showroom design had to be [...]

Posted: March 8th, 2011 | Blog, Design | No Comments ›

Showroom Cafe – 1st Take on Interior Decoration

Last year, I took on an exciting project. It was to remodel a casual meeting space inside a large 6 story decorative lighting showroom. Interior design wasn’t something that I had experience doing other than the few times that I remodeled my bedroom and living room. Throwing myself at this exciting opportunity to expand my [...]

Posted: February 28th, 2011 | Blog, Design | No Comments ›

Creating an attractive HTML Signature in Apple Mail

UPDATE 02-11-2012: If you are on Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6, continue reading. If you have already upgraded to Lion, Mac OS X 10.7, please follow my tutorial: Create a HTML Signature in Apple Mail on Lion, OS X 10.7 instead. Since I started freelancing, I wanted my e-mail signature to be a bit [...]

Posted: February 24th, 2011 | Blog, Tutorial | 18 Comments ›

Shorter URL links for Twitter

When I first started using Twitter, I felt limited by how much I can write in each post. What made it even harder was when I wanted to share a hyperlink that is very long. Soon, I discovered that there was an easy way to resolve this issue. You can shorten any hyperlinks on some [...]

Posted: December 1st, 2010 | Blog, Tutorial | No Comments ›

How To Draw Vector Maps with Adobe Illustrator

Have you ever had the need to create a stylized map to match a certain design and not sure how to create one like a pro? Well I hope this tutorial will help you create your own stylized map like one. Creating your own map will take some time but is pretty much straight forward [...]

Posted: February 28th, 2010 | Blog, Tutorial | 12 Comments ›

Site Traffic

I am very happy with the result of my website redesign. Though it can always be better, I think it is at a great place for now. Recently I submitted my website to a bunch of CSS gallery sites hoping to get some feedback and comments on my website redesign. I was shocked that after [...]

Posted: February 17th, 2010 | Blog, Personal Tags:
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New Site

Hi all. I am finally considering this new design finished for now. Developing this site was very exciting. Some parts of it was easy to get through but others required a lot of time and sweat. The biggest challenge was dealing with Internet Explorer. I’m sure any web guys can agree with that. I hope you like the new look. Please feel free to check it out and let me know what you think. Thanks.

Posted: February 4th, 2010 | Blog, Personal | No Comments ›

New Design in Process

Hello, thanks for visiting my site. It is currently under construction as I am updating the site with a new design. Please come back soon to check it out. Please contact me by eamil : timmy.cai@mydesignpad.com or call me at 646-338-7998 in case you need to reach me.

Posted: January 25th, 2010 | Blog, Personal | No Comments ›

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  • "Tim is a trustworthy and effective designer. He redesigned the entire visual identity system for my company & I am extremely pleased with it. As the CEO of a company with over 3000 employees, I would recommend Timmy to anyone looking to have some serious design work done."

    - Tony Ou
    CEO of Senqiu Lighting
  • "Tim effectively designed my website and newsletter. What impressed me the most was his ability to create the images, style and design I was looking for. I highly recommend him if you are looking for someone reliable, flexible and talented."

    - Christine M.
    Owner of Acupuncturebody
  • "Tim has a great personality that makes him a pleasure to work with. He is focused, hard working & always has an attention to details. He has great curiosity and constantly strives to learn & develop himself taking his work to the next level"

    - Slava S.
    Director of Creative Services at STV
  • "Tim conceptualized original ideas & executed the design brilliantly. He always made sure the highest technical & design standards were met. I could always count on him to translate the client vision into reality."

    - Linda G.
    VP Biz Dev. at Real Estate Arts
  • "Tim is a highly talented designer. He has excellent technology skills, amazing dedication & terrific interpersonal abilities."

    - Michael S.
    AD at Real Estate Arts
  • "Timmy is a very talented designer, he is passionate and reliable, his work is always creative & on time. He’s a good person with lots of energy, which makes him a pleasure to work with."

    - Jess L.
    AD at Sudler & Hennessey
  • "Timmy got a great system for helping you figure out what you want, need & putting those ideas down into a tangible product. He has done 3 sites for me already & anyone I have recommended him to has called me back to thank me."

    - Vahram S.
    Owner of Brooklyn Body