Archive for the category "creativity"

Yesterday evening I went to a talk hosted by the V&A, entitled “Digital Futures: Storytelling in the Digital Domain“. The following is a reworking of my notes from the event, they are still pretty… Read more »

I volunteered for this year’s conference so I was there from 6am packing bags then later answering questions and just generally helping out where needed. I did manage to attend a few sessions so what follows is a brief… Read more »

Jeff Veen‘s presentation is just as relevant to me now as it was when I took notes back in June. I listened intently since this man’s work history includes setting up the industry leading Adaptive Path and working on… Read more »

I’ve been quiet on here for some time, only because I’ve been busy running a marathon and starting a new job… all normal stuff :) If you’ve been around you may have seen that I’ve been adding to Read more »

Iain recently reminded me of a website I think I’d seen before, but not recorded: www.dontclick.it. It’s an experiment in not clicking. The website is built in Flash and, after an introduction, actually chastises the user in the event… Read more »

Using QuickTime VR, panoramas.dk has collected immersive images of new year’s eve 2006 in over 15 cities across the globe. I particularly like Times Square; there’s so much going on and if you look up you… Read more »

What’s the point of the web if you can’t receive and send information as and when you want it? Google seems to know this and so, for those that haven’t heard, they’ve released the SDK for their… Read more »

I was reading a booklet called Poise from a recent Indy. In it, there’s a quote from Michael Rodber designer of the EuroStar trains. He says, Design is not like fine art, where there are no boundaries. The… Read more »

A List Apart posted an article this week describing how fonts could and should be more exciting on the web. As a bonus, it links to two free font creators Ray Larabie and Dieter… Read more »

Phil spotted Streetviewr, a collection of interesting images from Google Street View. However you can’t add your own just yet, google says “we’re not accepting photo submissions”. Wow, think what that could… Read more »

It makes sense that language use is interesting to people who work on the web. We write it and we create it e.g. Top 10 Worst Web App Names. Web entrepreneurs are hacking together new services and new names… Read more »

Still a work in progress, Blueprint is a CSS framework that’s for the experienced designer who doesn’t want to always be reinventing the wheel, or the newbie who needs a helping hand to achieve great results. There’s been a… Read more »

Links that I’ve come across over the last couple of weeks: The @media 2007 podcasts have been released (for the first day anyway). Snook.ca posted a piece about Co.mments. Anyone who knows me will understand that anything… Read more »

I gotta say it… In my view the marketing minds behind O2 (the mobile phone people) are doing a great job. My reasons? I thought the O2 Wireless Festival (London) was excellent (some stomping headline acts); I get… Read more »

Mix rich colour, programming and a cool graphic design flair and you get Trafik. Currently a feature at apple. Gorgeous. Read more »

My brief notes from day one of the @media conference 2007. These are the sessions that I attended, I’ll hopefully link to podcasts as they become available, I’m also going to search out notes and presentation slides from the sessions… Read more »

I haven’t forgotten about writing up my @media07 experiences, many and varied that they were. Do not fear. However I thought I’d give it a week or two while the various presenters posted their notes etc (saves me the job… Read more »

Random to say the least, but I found myself reading all of it just in case I missed something. Lots to mull over in Kathy Sierra’s post. It includes a personal view from… Read more »

Nothing to do with accessibility etc, but I found this milk promotion fun (if a little shameless):http://www.gettheglass.com/Thanks to Danny for pointing it out. Read more »

Fiction, non-fiction and comics are all sections in this Blog-to-Book contest at the annual Lulu Blooker Prize. Check out the short-list for this year. So many books, I wish I could read faster :P Read more »

That phrase has popped into my head on more than a few occasions recently (I guess some people will be bored of me saying it). So it was refreshing to see Joe Clarke’s deconstruction of signage on the Toronto… Read more »

This article by Veerle was spotted by Phil, good reference to where to start with buttons. I’m quite sure the same effects can be produced in Photoshop as well as Illustrator (although probably easier in the latter). Read more »

I especially like snagt.net, totally off the wall (but the rest are all very good/inspirational).http://cameronmoll.com/archives/2007/01/remixed/ Read more »

After a great article by Mark Boulton on Alistapart, one of the comments posted is a reminder of a site I’ve been lead to before but never documented:http://www.webtypography.net/ …and the acompanying book, The Elements of… Read more »

Usability Professionals’ Association, Conference Podcast 2006http://ukupa.org.uk/podcasts/UPA_2006.mp3 Synchronise Google Canlendar with Outlook – useful tool?http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/05/synchronize-google-calendar-with.html Texture King Free Stock Imageshttp://www.textureking.com/ Read more »