Limbo
Launched yesterday is a brand-spanking new-material-laden WordPress website for Limbo, an artistic, sidescrolling platformer. Limbo is engineered by Copenhagen-based Playdead Games which I’m proud to call my neighbours. As you can see from the screenshot above, the game is absolutely gorgeous, and it’s even better-looking when it’s moving, so you should definately check out the [...]
The Branding Of Google Chrome
Google is firing all its cannons with its Chrome browser. It’s out for all the major platforms, and it’s even got a dedicated operating system in development. Part of such a cross-platform effort is a strong need for visual branding — a unique look which will subconsciously tell the user which browser they’re using. For [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]