Flame Art
This is flame art, built using Peter Blaskovics java-based Flame painter.
Thursdays Mouse Tracks
This is the path my mouse has travelled today. The dots indicate where my mouse took a rest. Dotsize, the rest duration.
This is all done using Anatoly Zenkovs Mouse Tracks, a little Java application records your mouse and draws pretty pictures.
Some observations:
Paul Fitt will be happy to note my excessive use of screen edges.
The bottom [...]
Throwing Darts
On my way home from work, a thing about design occurred to me. As a designer, you may find the perfect design in your first shot, just as you may hit the bullseye the first time you ever throw a dart. But to hit the bullseye (or even the board) consistently, only time and countless [...]
Typedia Logo
Read the story about the gorgeous logo for Typedia.
Wordpress 2.7 Admin Interface Usability Quick-Review
Blogging software and part CMS, Wordpress, has gotten a major overhaul from version 2.6 to the just-released 2.7. Besides some very neat new features such as threaded comments, the administration interface has gotten the most work. Dubbed “Crazyhorse”, this admin update is mostly good, tweaking and building on usability work that was done for version [...]
Photoshop Is So Slow …
Photoshop is so slow, it should have a calendar instead of a splash screen.
Photoshop is so slow, a turtle tried to marry it, but Photoshop was late for the wedding and the turtle ended up marrying Windows 95 instead.
Photoshop is so slow, Adobe pondered renaming it “Please wait…”.
Photoshop is so slow, that these jokes were [...]
Photoshop Icons Through The Ages
Thanks to GUIdebook and John Nack, I’ve managed to collect a nice little gallery of Photoshop icons since v. 0.87. To be quite honest, I’m not sure I like any of them enough to pick a favourite. Points to Thomas Knoll for the very first icon, which is actually a photo shop.
Algorithm Ink
Algorighm Ink is an open source JavaScript and Canvas project that’ll let you make illustrations in your browser by simply jotting down simple code. Google recently made something similar, Top Draw.
Work: !Solid Underworld
I recently put the final touches on one of the biggest projects in my freelance career so far: !Solid Underworld. Don’t let the name fool you, this is no full Flash-site—this was a requirement for my undertaking of the project. No, despite this being a new danish avant-garde clothing brand, the !Solid Underworld website is [...]
Deconstructing ‘En Afton I Sverige’ Poster
It’s been a while since I did any “deconstructions”—animated GIF files showing the various incremental steps in a design—but I was suddenly inspired to do it again.
The above is one of my personal favourite posters deconstructed. I did the poster simply as an invitation to a night of good music in a house in [...]