Archive | Design

07 September 2007 ~ 0 Comments

More Proce55ing Art

I created this during some downtime at the studio today…

This image was created using the Metropop, Atrractor and Particle applications in the Proce55ing environment. I’ve been playing with recoding the apps to do more than what they were originally written to do. The rest of the design was completed in Photoshop.
My inspiration [...]

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05 September 2007 ~ 20 Comments

Tutorial: Reflective Bubbles

For my most recent work I wanted to create bubbles that would reflect my subject in a believable yet magical way. To do this I started by duplicating the main photo Layer >> Duplicate Layer.

Next I scaled the duplicate to 25% of it’s original size. Edit >> Transform >> Scale. We also need [...]

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30 August 2007 ~ 0 Comments

Proce55ing for Design

My new favorite design tool is an open source programming environment called Processing (also known as Proce55ing to avoid confusion). The project, which can be monitored at Processing.org was created to teach the fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context.

The best part of processing is that it’s an open source platform and many [...]

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20 August 2007 ~ 0 Comments

Interested in learning Javascript?

Douglas Crockford is the senior JavaScript Architect at Yahoo! and is better known as the as being one of the pioneers (if not THE pioneer) who brought us JSON. Right now Yahoo Video is hosting many of his lectures which are incredibly intuitive and useful for any novice of Javascript programming!
Here’s a link to [...]

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03 August 2007 ~ 0 Comments

Photoshop Key Commands I Love

D (Default Colors)
Num Keys 1 thru 0 (Tool Opacity Level)
H (Hand Tool)
Ctrl + Alt + Shift + N (Quick New Layer)
Ctrl + Alt + Shift + E (Stamp Visible)
[ (Decreases Brush Size)
] (Increases Brush Size)
Shift + [ (Decrease Brush Softness)
Shift + ] (Increases Brush Softness)
and of course….
Ctrl + Alt + Shift + [...]

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02 August 2007 ~ 0 Comments

Surfing Beyond The Semantic Web

We haven’t even gotten past the wave of 2.0 applications but someone is already predicting what Web4.0 will be like:
Nova’s stealth-mode company is working on what he describes as a “Java-based framework for semantic web applications and services that has some similarities to Ruby on Rails, and also includes a lot of other technology such [...]

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01 August 2007 ~ 0 Comments

Wall of Web Designers

One of my favorite well designed web sites is Nick La’s N.Design Studio now the owner has launched a new site entitled Web Designer Wall. His latest post spotlights several well designed flash websites that turn the creators illustrations into animation. Link

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01 August 2007 ~ 0 Comments

Howto: Preloading Images With Javascript

Javascript is the great unifier of Web 1.0 and Web 2.0. It’s still highly relevant, useful and almost necessary for new design trends as it was for old ones. One use of javascript is to preload images on a webpage to offer your site’s visitors a faster browsing experience. For those of [...]

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25 July 2007 ~ 0 Comments

Data Visualization Continued

Yesterday when I mentioned Data Visualization tools, I was thinking of tools that you and I could use to enhance our vistors experience without coding anything. Today I have to point out the work of Jonathan Harris who’s visualization projects are nothing short of spectacular. His projects “Universe” and “Love Lines” are impressive [...]

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23 July 2007 ~ 0 Comments

Data Visualization Tools For Your Website

So, the new rage in the web2.0 sphere is flash/ajax data visualization which aren’t exactly new:
The use of visualization to present information is not a new phenomenon. It has been used in maps, scientific drawings, and data plots for over a thousand years….
To see a visualization of the sites that I link to and that [...]

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