On our new site for 2k we discovered a super error message on IE: “Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site *** Operation aborted.” Google turned out this solution. Turns out it was a swfobject conflict with lightbox. Also, god I hate IE.
All I can say is that New York is an amazing place and I can’t wait to go back! Thank you, BKWLD, for giving me the opportunity to experience New York for the first time! Click the image below to see more pics.
One of our clients, Bill Janis, sent me this link to an Analytics app for Air. Pretty dope, I tried it out at home and it behaved beautifully. I favor the design of the Google one though.
RC Cars perform the Super Mario theme song on bottles. Human beings keep getting more and more amazing. Link via ejb.com (link not friendly for some employers)
The Library of Congress has a Flickr account. Check out the 1930s-40s In Color set. It will blow you away.
You can quick look excel files! Pretty amazing. That’s it.
I did say that I wasn’t going to bother with IE6 fixes on my new site. In fact, I was planning on insulting IE6 users with a special graphic overlay. I remembered however that this would include people like
a) 50% of our clients (guessing)
b) 66% of my family (my brother introduced me to firefox)
c) 30% of everybody (according to current stats)
So, that’s a lot. So, I spent the whole day (literally) fixing the site for 6 (argh) + 7 (which was admittedly easy). Anyway, for the IE6 users, I’m using a little script from this site:
It’s cool, it animates in a pretty image at the top of the page saying how you should upgrade and provides links to current/modern browsers. So, while not an affront to each users’ browsing sensibilities, it does provide a nice recommendation that is rather obvious.
This tool has been used and abused ever since the filter was introduced in photoshop, but if cleverly used it can be extremely powerful.
This link features a small introduction on how to raster vector images and apply the liquify tool to create rich lighting effects.
http://mos.futurenet.com/pdf/computerarts/ART146_tut_1.pdf
I have used this technique for the following sites:
Drop Dead Gorgeous
http://www.worsethanafairytale.com/launch/
• The entire landscape was created using the liquify tool on landscape/nature photos. Once this was done I altered the perspective and burned and dodged the hell out of it to achieve the illusion of a natural light source.
Kelty
http://www.kelty.com
• Same technique used here for the landscape.
Who Do U want to B?
http://www.whodouwant2b.com/
• Liquify tool was used here again for quick and dirty “ribbon” effects.
Thalia
http://www.thalia.com/2.0/
• By now you should be able to spot my liquify action.
Anyhow, digging up abused filter effects in photoshop and applying them in clever ways can be powerful.
Highly highly recommended.
Amazing documentary! It will make any designer feel respected and powerful once again!
It almost felt like I was in a therapy session while watching this.
In a nutshell it’s about the origin of the font, the original font haus and the modernism movement vs. today’s contemporary designers who have a strong use of typography such as D.Carson and the S.Stagmister. Basically typography rules vs. no typography rules.
Vic’s and I were having a discussion the other day about what makes Davis Carson so special and after watching the film I had more respect for him, Raygun and Mario. Stephan Stagmister is also one of those guy’s that was questionable to me before watching this. His big “fuck you” attitude to the modernist movement is very interesting during the film. On a side note, Dan Yomanz (buk freelancer) just recently met him in person at one of his lectures and said he was a really nice and approachable guy. I was waiting for Ben’s idol, Hillman Curtis to appear but no dice, I sorta figured he’d be on this documentry by default.
If I had to choose a side “moderism or contemporary typography” I could be swayed either way. I have always felt there’s a time and place for all uses of typography and if you have the respect and understanding of both, it’s fair game.
Don’t miss this link:
http://www.hillmancurtis.com/hc_web/film_video/source/fof/sagmeister08.php
I’d recommend this book for school projects Vic’s. I love it.
http://www.miltonglaser.com/
http://www.amazon.com/Design-Dissent-Socially-Politically-Graphics/dp/1592533078/ref=pd_sim_b_img_2/104-9065744-0143904
Twitter recently remade their crossdomain.xml file very restrictive, allowing only apps on their own domain to access the api content. Unfortunately, this makes Flash applications throw Sandbox violations so no more Flash/Twitter mashups. Apparently though, they aren’t above the possibility of selling access though. Discovering radiance? What the? Apparently, there’s a real security issue involved (flash 9, what’s new!?) but it’s a bummer b/c I really liked my little app that I made for my new site. Next up: Ben scrapes his twitter content, saves it locally. ;)
