This is such a great idea, a battle of design skills all on stage in front of an audience lets hope there is no designers block! No pressure people!
See the site here they are hitting London in October
Wednesday 29 August 2007
Cut & Paste digital design tournament
This is such a great idea, a battle of design skills all on stage in front of an audience lets hope there is no designers block! No pressure people!
See the site here they are hitting London in October
Wednesday 15 August 2007
Bitt Box
Great Resource for all things arty farty, loads of vector artwork and other stuff all FREE
Bittbox.com
Tuesday 14 August 2007
Friday 10 August 2007
Monday 9 July 2007
Audio Interface
A non visual web experience to raise awareness of the importance of designing with useability in mind.
audiem
audiem
Thursday 7 June 2007
National Media Museum - 2014 EPIC, by Google
Relates to my dissertation, on Interactive television and it's effects on advertising! talking about the personalisation of adverts, could be interesting to see how opinions and technologys have changed since it was written in 2002 (i'll try to upload it later)!
Thursday 3 May 2007
Sunday 22 April 2007
The Return of Mr T
Finally someone has seen the light and brought back Mr T to the TV even if it is only for snicker... ledgend!
This is by Claude Lelouch and its called C'était un rendez-vous. He said, at the time, he did this in his own Ferrari 275 GTB although people are now saying (and even him, reportedly) that he did it in a Mercedes-Benz 450SEL 6.9. He got arrested after the public release but wasn't charged. It was supposdly driven by a friend who was an F1 driver at the time and he also uses a gyro stabilised camera
Saturday 21 April 2007
FOWD
On wednesday 18th i went to the future of web design conference there where some really awesome speakers there and was an excellent mix of developer and designer talks. The conference focused on the convergence of the designer and developer and the making of co-herent sites with other forms of marketing ideas, obviously this is majorly important to the development of the future of the web, but lacked actual facts and information on how the internet will progress in the future, for example there was no mention of what impact of the introduction of flash lite to mobile handset will have on the market and the implications of that on designers and developers. In my opinion this is a major part of the progression of the web and how we use it in our everyday lives, more of us are now checking our emails and other forms of information such as RSS feeds through out handsets so it seem nieve to ignore this development at a future of web design conference.
The speaker that stood out for me were Rei Inamoto from AKQA LA, his presentation focused on the development of ideas and the design process, He asked what "What do you class yourselves as... wed designers?... motion graphics specialists.... etc... etc..." (and various people raised their hands). He continued and said that they see themselves as problem solvers, they get a breif from the client and they come up with a solution appropriate to solve it. That could be a site, motion graphics piece, game, advertisment, etc as long as it is the best way to solve the problem. I think from this he was trying to say that we shouldn't just sell someone a site just because the client wants a site, we should asses the problem and come up with an approch that will answer the brief in the most appropriate way (maybe this is more of a consultant approach, but we really shouldn't be trying to fit a square peg into a round hole, i agree totally). He showed various pieces of work like the halo 2 site which was all written in the alien language from the game and was translated by people all over the world and they posted these translations on forums and halo 2 sites, this took away the pain staking problem of translating all of the sites - genius!
Andy clarke spoke real truths, when talking about the design and developments of sites, talking on the process on how a design is put together and the roles of people within an agency enviroment, mentioning methods that we should develop in order to keep the value of ownership in our work. For a designer there is nothing worse than someone coming up to you with a detailed wireframe of a site and giving you it to base your design on, surely thats what you have been employed for, instantly the ownership of the site is lost and the designer has no connection with the piece of work therefore in my opinion dosen't produce a great piece of work.
Steve Pearce from Poke was great, really laid back presentation and totally different to the rest 15 things in 15 minutes, just stuff that he had been thinking of that week GREAT!!
Things I thought were poor at the conference were the Flash and standards presentations maybe i was exspecting a bit to much from this but i thought that it was going to be based around how we can develop flash sites and applications and make them more standards based (like flash tabbing systems) but no... it seemed like that they were just pointing out that this was a flash site and this is an html site and so on for 40 minutes, quite disapointing it was one of the ones i really wanted to hear to! ah well!
Over all the whole day was good and i learn't alot, more on idea generation side of things along with some new programes to take note of such as Apollo, CS3, and the community site that i have never heard of, twitter etc.
The speaker that stood out for me were Rei Inamoto from AKQA LA, his presentation focused on the development of ideas and the design process, He asked what "What do you class yourselves as... wed designers?... motion graphics specialists.... etc... etc..." (and various people raised their hands). He continued and said that they see themselves as problem solvers, they get a breif from the client and they come up with a solution appropriate to solve it. That could be a site, motion graphics piece, game, advertisment, etc as long as it is the best way to solve the problem. I think from this he was trying to say that we shouldn't just sell someone a site just because the client wants a site, we should asses the problem and come up with an approch that will answer the brief in the most appropriate way (maybe this is more of a consultant approach, but we really shouldn't be trying to fit a square peg into a round hole, i agree totally). He showed various pieces of work like the halo 2 site which was all written in the alien language from the game and was translated by people all over the world and they posted these translations on forums and halo 2 sites, this took away the pain staking problem of translating all of the sites - genius!
Andy clarke spoke real truths, when talking about the design and developments of sites, talking on the process on how a design is put together and the roles of people within an agency enviroment, mentioning methods that we should develop in order to keep the value of ownership in our work. For a designer there is nothing worse than someone coming up to you with a detailed wireframe of a site and giving you it to base your design on, surely thats what you have been employed for, instantly the ownership of the site is lost and the designer has no connection with the piece of work therefore in my opinion dosen't produce a great piece of work.
Steve Pearce from Poke was great, really laid back presentation and totally different to the rest 15 things in 15 minutes, just stuff that he had been thinking of that week GREAT!!
Things I thought were poor at the conference were the Flash and standards presentations maybe i was exspecting a bit to much from this but i thought that it was going to be based around how we can develop flash sites and applications and make them more standards based (like flash tabbing systems) but no... it seemed like that they were just pointing out that this was a flash site and this is an html site and so on for 40 minutes, quite disapointing it was one of the ones i really wanted to hear to! ah well!
Over all the whole day was good and i learn't alot, more on idea generation side of things along with some new programes to take note of such as Apollo, CS3, and the community site that i have never heard of, twitter etc.
Thursday 19 April 2007
Monday 16 April 2007
Mobile Blogging
text a picture or text or even both to go@blogger.com and it's all set your mobile blogging... that some high techy shit!!!
Wednesday 11 April 2007
Dan Hill from radio 1 online
Mobile Content - looks like the way forward
Looks like flash lite is going to hit the orld by storm at some point, but where to start thats the big question. Here's a good start... flashdevices.net this has some great discussions and is a great sourse for all things mobile!
Tuesday 10 April 2007
Monday 9 April 2007
Geordie Racer
BBC 2 - look and Read
Heres the theme Tune
I used to watch this is primary school, a good start to education me thinks! the plot was about a young lad called Richard Hilton, known as Spuggy, can't be bothered with the Great North Run (a sort of mini marathon thing that the rest of his family are taking part in), preferring to spend time at the local pigeon lofts with his favourite bird, Blue Flash. He meets a pigeon trainer called Baz and spends some time in his lofts, where he gets a look at several secret messages that Baz receives by pigeon. Spuggy and his friend Janie link the messages with a series of robberies that have been taking place. Learning of the next robbery from a message, they go to spy on the robbers and Spuggy is shocked to see that his unemployed dad (Kevin Whately) is working as their driver. When Spuggy eventually talks to his dad about this, he finds that dad didn't know they were actually commiting theft, he just wanted a job. The final, big robbery is due to take place during the Great North Run, but when Janie discovers the details she is (accidentally) imprisoned by Baz. She gets a message to Spuggy by sending off Blue Flash - who had been lost during a race and discovered by Baz, who planned to keep the bird for himself - with a message. Spuggy is able to summon the police and gets his sister to chase the villains and get their stolen money back. Well, chuck it all over the street anyway.
The Game... on a BBC computer.
Heres the theme Tune
I used to watch this is primary school, a good start to education me thinks! the plot was about a young lad called Richard Hilton, known as Spuggy, can't be bothered with the Great North Run (a sort of mini marathon thing that the rest of his family are taking part in), preferring to spend time at the local pigeon lofts with his favourite bird, Blue Flash. He meets a pigeon trainer called Baz and spends some time in his lofts, where he gets a look at several secret messages that Baz receives by pigeon. Spuggy and his friend Janie link the messages with a series of robberies that have been taking place. Learning of the next robbery from a message, they go to spy on the robbers and Spuggy is shocked to see that his unemployed dad (Kevin Whately) is working as their driver. When Spuggy eventually talks to his dad about this, he finds that dad didn't know they were actually commiting theft, he just wanted a job. The final, big robbery is due to take place during the Great North Run, but when Janie discovers the details she is (accidentally) imprisoned by Baz. She gets a message to Spuggy by sending off Blue Flash - who had been lost during a race and discovered by Baz, who planned to keep the bird for himself - with a message. Spuggy is able to summon the police and gets his sister to chase the villains and get their stolen money back. Well, chuck it all over the street anyway.
The Game... on a BBC computer.
I HAVE THE POWER!!!!!
While looking for inspiration for my own illustrations i've found this... oh the good old days!!!
Tuesday 3 April 2007
Malajube
A french band video for Etienne d'Aout. Great animation combined with live footage, great effect.
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