5 May
When my friends and I need inspiration we pound on caffeine and get crazy at a whiteboard till the ideas start flowing. When it comes to caffeine we turn to one location and that is the mecca you might know as Starbucks.
Below you are about to see the product of our addiction for Starbucks.
If you enjoy please share and comment so we know you all like it.
18 Mar
Came across this randomly awesome website where you can post a message and demo it with a random old school style.
I especially like the “Magic” style which literally makes me feel like I have Vertigo.
9 Feb
Came across this article on The Hipster Home. Not that I have the time to be able to do this but it was awesome enough to get bookmarked for a rainy day.
If anyone does this please comment and put up a photo of it.
29 Jan
Being plugged into the interactive space pretty heavily I’m constantly watching the websites and blogs that publish and talk about innovative technology and great creative. I’ve been a fan of Rob Ford’s FWA (Favourite Website Awards) for quite sometime and experienced a great deal of pleasure from watching and contributing to some of its winning websites that make its prestigious list.
Today was the first time in the history of the website where a website built in something other than flash made the cut of “Site of the Day“. I started to think about that and I figured I would share a bit more what that means for the Interactive Designers and Creative Strategists of today and tomorrow alike.
The Digital Landscape is changing (duh) and the Technology and ways that things are done are changing with it. As i’ve said for so long technology is only a tool or a vehicle. The minds using and creating it are the messengers.
With browsers getting better and the push towards standards being a voice that is finally being heard the ability to deliver content is only getting better. HTML5 and CSS3 are carving shape to a whole new world of possibilities for Web Developers and Designers alike. You no longer have to be a flash developer to animate a menu and you no longer have to write thousands of lines of code to drag and drop or do things that should have been effortless since day one.
This shift is also causing roles to change. Suddenly the generalist in the office who was once the unsung hero for having knowledge in many things now becomes the all-star. Being a master of one language or syntax isn’t good enough anymore.
Flash Developers are rushing to learn markup and css. Application Developers are rushing to learn jquery and front-end skills to further solidify their job security.
With Coding frameworks getting stronger, API development getting easier and deadlines getting shorter our jobs aren’t getting any less complex. In fact they are getting harder.
I was talking with a close friend of mine the other day who has been a Flash Developer since before there was ActionScript. We started discussing how critical it was that he continued to learn the newer ways of tackling interactive outside of the bounds of flash.
He asked me “Why is Flash Dying“.
My reply was simple “Flash isn’t dying the needs for using it are just changing“.
Flash has always been a staple for connecting together various technologies to offer a unified interactive experience. The penetration of people adopting the Flash Plug-in happened because flash was offering them a better internet. One filled with more interactivity and rich media content. The same thing will happen with HTML5 and advanced JavaScript frameworks like Jquery and Prototype.
Change is the only constant in life. So if your a programmer and your reading this get off your ass and don’t be afraid to break your comfort zone. You don’t have the luxury of hiding behind your one talent anymore because the world is full of a new breed of talent who are well versed in a handful of the things you may have avoided until now.
At my company we are really big on continued learning. We use tools like Lynda for video learning and read blogs and websites like A List Apart and Net-Tuts to stay abreast on things that might slip past us when we are working on client work on a day to day basis.
I’m really curious to see how my peers are viewing this shift.
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28 Jan
AKQA’s newest FWA award winning site/campaign is Nike PhotoID. One bad ass concept where you can create a personalized sneaker from the visual world around you. Using the iphone application you can take photos and locate unique QR codes to “unlock” features. This App and campaign microsite further delves into a city insider view of the culture of ones life, sports throughout six of Europe’s most innovative and cutting edge locations. The App launches with London, Berlin, Paris, Milan, Amsterdam and Barcelona as places to experience the digital playground.
27 Jan
now if only they would just make a macbook pro with a touch screen then i would actually run to the store and go buy one.
And it comes in multiple price points and formats as with all their other i-products
Granted it is just a really big iphone but as a developer and creative technologist the possibilities for developing interactive user experiences and interactivity are endless.
especially with Adobe’s next release of Flash CS5 giving the ability to package and compile for iphone.
photo credit to "walyou"
watch the full play-by-play on Engadget
and as usual apple has it already on their website. check out a video of it on apple.
26 Jan
Being heavily involved in web applications and digital marketing i’ve had the pleasure of working with some great people and been able to immerse myself into every concept of User Experience.
In every Design 101 class color theory is spelled out and we all get a taste for the various facets that go into color and how combining them bring things to life.
Sure we have all used color tools such as:
Stumbled upon this awesome tool for viewing palettes and creating your colors in 3d. By seeing your colors in the third dimension you see color in a similar way your eye and brain perceive color.
Nice little Flash tool for experimenting with various colors and how they are viewed. Adjust the View, Hue, Tint and Blend.
17 Jan
kudos to @eirikso for this badass Time Lapse video of an entire year in 90 Seconds.
i’m a sucker for a good time lapse video
12 Mar
I recently was published on promotion world you can visit the article at http://www.promotionworld.com/articles/se/articles/Internet_Marketing_Strategy/080305theblueprintfor.html
