UVA

UVA's installation at the V&A recently closed. Combining interative with public art has always been interesting and Volume worked from botha view and partici[pants point of view. I'd have loved to be able to wander around as an individual to really play with the giant toy. www.uva.co.uk

Listen to Phil Loye Adobe

I've been designing my site comps in illustrator for years now thanks to the direction of the very talented Paul Sonley the as then Creative Director of Razorfish London. It's the perfect tool in my mind for wireframing, laying out and producing components for Flash. Only when a site needs templates producing and final polishing do I turn to Photoshop.

One of Illustrators notable problems, even up until CS and CS2 i'd imagine, has been the inability to underline text a clear usable way. Designers have historically adopted nasty work arounds to try and solve this problem and all create more issues than they solve.

That's is until now, all hail Phil Loye for this work around....Come on Adobe, sort it out.

http://www.philoye.com

Creativity 2.0

UXMAG running an interesting article on the future for creativity and how design steps beyond simply the visual layer.
www.uxmag.com/strategy/163/creativity-2e

Banner Blog

Keep track of what's new. www.bannerblog.com.au/http://beta.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif

Perlin Noise

Perlin Noise is a really insteresting algorithm built into Flash. Play.

To begin...

So, to begin with the first post of this blog.

Creating this template was the first real challenge of the start of what's to come. The aim of the design was to establish a visual design that clearly communicates but also does something beyond basic blog design. The first aspect to get over was Bloggers template language. It reminded me a lot of time speand working with the perl template toolkit www.template-toolkit.org/, which is a really powerful way of extending perl.

Second was to make sure that the typography worked and for this the initial solution was SIFR
www.mikeindustries.com/sifr. However, inital tests stangly enough with Apples Safari browser prooved a little problematic, so a bespoke answer in the form ov very basic Flash text replacements turned out to be the answer.

As always the design's likely to evolve.