Design Jam – What to expect
Monday 7 November 2011On Saturday 5th November 2011 I attended Design Jam Brighton. It was my first time attending an event like this so I didn’t really know what to expect.
From the Design Jam Wiki page it explained that: “Design Jams are one-or-two-day design sessions, during which people team up to tackle engaging User Experience (UX) challenges.”
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Responsive Logo Design
Wednesday 21 September 2011The dust has settled since the launch of the London 2012 logo. It’s a design that received criticism from the general public and the design community alike and even now, four years on from its badly scripted unveiling it still has few fans. I’ll state now (like I did back in 2007) that I am a fan (though I do have criticism for the launch and the language used to explain the design concept). The Olympic Games has always been about sports men and women striving to be the best and win medals for their countries, but the games have a major commercial interest too. The world will be watching these games so big brands pay big money to be in partnership.
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Playing with CSS3 animations and HTML5
Friday 29 July 2011Just been having a little play with some CSS3 animation and transform (and a tiny bit of HTML5). I used this and this for information. Only viewable in Firefox, Chrome, Safari and possible Opera(?) though.
Click to see demo.
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What the font
Wednesday 20 July 2011I noticed this news story today:
“Sheikh Hamad Bin Hamdan Al Nahyan wrote his name two miles across — with letters a kilometre high. It is so huge that the “H”, the first “A” and part of the “M” have been made into waterways. The mega-rich sheikh, 63 — a member of the ruling family of Abu Dhabi — in the oil-rich United Arab Emirates — boasts a £14billion fortune that is second only to the Saudi king’s.”
For fun I took a screenshot of the satellite view, cleaned it up a bit in Photoshop and ran the result through http://new.myfonts.com/:
I reckon Suredog (bold) is a good match… should you wish to write your name on your beach in 1 kilometer point size.
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