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Monthly Archives: November 2008
A train, some raisins and childhood memories
I’ve been busy recently, what have I been up to? Errmm…doing site audits, working on pitches and taking trains to Manchester. Manchester is cool, lots of construction work under way and old boarded up buildings, which were full of character and plastered with graffiti. On the way back to London I bought a packet of [...]
Geometry, circles and things
Kapitza have just released a book of geometric art, I’m a big fan geometric/linear art and geometry because It takes me back to my childhood. When we were kids my Mum use to teach us how to draw all kinds of shapes and patterns using compasses, I know, I know most kids just used to [...]
Posted in Design Tagged Design, geometry, graphic design, kapitza, linear, linear art Leave a comment
JQuery is child’s play right?
I found this tutorial the other day on the Google tech talks channel. They have a 12 year old child genius giving a lecture on JQuery to a class full of adults. Look at how confident he his as a presenter, very impressive! JQuery is essentially a Javascript library, which is used by many designers/developers [...]
Posted in Technology Tagged ajax, animation, css, HTML, Jquery, RIA, RIA'S, UI, web applications, web development Leave a comment
Cool Soap
I’m really liking the Malin+Goetz product packaging. It’s been around for quite some time, however, I like the way the type descends, gets smaller (in size and weight) and fades in colour. I’ve been a bit cheeky and copied this style for a few powerpoint presentations. It’s quite a cool way of showing how drawn [...]
Posted in Design, Typography Tagged Design, helvetica, minimalism, minimalist, package design, product design, Typography Leave a comment
Where to find inspiration
If you’re ever looking for creative inspiration or just “cool stuff” on the web, take a look at the explore page on tumblr. Honestly it’s brilliant, tumblr seems to be the blogging platform of choice for so many photobloggers (phloggers, I just made that up), designers and creative types, you’re sure to find some gems [...]
Development Frameworks
With so many new web-applications and social websites on the web, I decided to take a step away from the websites themselves and instead deconstruct and analyse the technologies which power them. Most developers currently seem to use MVC architecture based frameworks (MVC stands for Model View Controller), the most talked about MVC based framework [...]
Posted in Technology Tagged asp.net, cake, django, frameworks, Java, php, python, rails, struts, symfony, Twitter, web applications 1 Comment
Creativity and Innovation
I was a proud brother today, I attended my sisters graduation. Rakhi graduated with a BSc(Hons) in Sports Studies, she is now one step closer to her dream of owning her own kiddy fat camp. Sitting in St Albans Cathedral brought back memories of my own graduation whilst simultaneously reminding me of how fast the [...]
Posted in Politics & Society, Random Tagged academic funding, academic intelligence, Creativity, innovation, technology companies Leave a comment
Deconstructing Stephen Fry
I’m really liking StephenFry.com, he has turned into a celebrity Social Media Evangelist. The only thing that I question about his whole concept is the use of his own video content? Why is it not being hosted on a platform like Vimeo, Revver or Viddler? If people could embed his video content onto their own [...]
Posted in Social Media, Video Content, WOM Tagged social media, stephen fry, video communities, video distribution, video hosting, video syndication Leave a comment
BBC moves to embrace remix culture
I discovered today that the BBC are behind a project called Masher. Masher essentially enables people to splice and mash their own video’s with content from the BBC Motion gallery. This is the second move the BBC have made to recognise how people want to view and use content. The launch of the iPlayer was [...]
Posted in Digital Photography and Art, Social Media, Video Content Tagged bbc masher, masher, pirate culture, remix culture, Video Content, VJ Leave a comment
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