CSS Grid frameworks are one of my newest favorite things. I have been using the 960 Grid for my portfolio redesign, and it has made my life 1000000 times easier.
Here is a collection of a wide array of grid frameworks for all my web people out there:
http://www.tripwiremagazine.com/tools/design/45-css-grid-systems-layout-generators-and-tutorials-that-every-designer-should-know.html
All because of this video:
I was trying to figure out how they did this.. At first I thought it was a camera on a dolly, and they shot each person individually then composite them all together. But after watching it a few times, I realized that wasn’t it… The time of each person stayed constant regardless of the radial position of the camera. I am not sure how this was done (and if I took the time to look online, I could probably find the “making of” video). Maybe they had a ring of cameras, a la bullet time in The Matrix, and then took all the cameras out in post.
Thoughts?
I recently came across a prototype of a video game that uses the exterior views of the passenger as the land bounderies for a flying ship. There have been many times as a child that I thought it would be fun to integrate the things I was seeing in with a video game I was playing.
The only thing I wonder is how this would be legal. I know most areas have specific laws governing the amount of visual interference the driver can have on the side windows.
This Helvetica based Monopoly board by Florent Guerlain is a wonderful way to organize and present information. I would love to see more classic games reimagined this way:
I came across this video over on College Humor. This is a really interesting concept, using alliteration to come up with lyrics in alphabetical order.
I came across this post from Unplggd.com, covering a “steampunk” cell phone, which used binary punch-cards to dial out. Just look, it is beautiful.
When I first started learning how to use After Effects, I immediately thought of finding new ways to get visual and audio cues to interact. I am a firm believer that the more sense we can get to concentrate on the same stimulus, the greater the reaction will be.
This video for the Chemical Brothers does just that. Pay attention to the repetition of elements and how they tie in seamlessly with the audio.
The great thing about sites like Amazon.com is that I can pre-order something, and have it be a little surprize waiting for me when I get home some day. That is the case with the book ABC3D that I received a few days ago.
This is a really fun book. There are really interesting ways that Marion Bataille, the author, chose to represent the alphabet in pop-up form. I got really excited by some of these letterforms, and you can see why here:
On a side note, there was another video dealing with giving letterforms a three-dimensional shape:
There is just something beautiful about typography, don’t you think?
As a side note, here is one of my first motion assignments, where I had to find a way to transition between a number and a letter.
I really fell in love with After Effects during the last quarter of my sophomore year at DAAP. I wanted to continue working with the program and pushing myself to learn new techniques. I knew that if I did not set goals for myself during this Co-op quarter, I would get distracted and put my endeavors on the back burner, so I decided to create a new video project every week. Each week, I will try to learn a new technique, be it recreating an effect from television or film, or re-imagining effects from a tutorial.
For my first assignment, I chose to recreate the “title cards” seen at the end of commercials on A&E. I really enjoy the way they arrange the information they present. Color is used to highlight specific pieces of information, be it a title of a show or a time it airs. The motions are concise, but hierarchy is displayed throughout. It is a simple animation, but there is beauty and elegance in the simplicity.
Please refer to this video if you are not familiar with the way these A&E title cards look.
A discussion today started on the idea of branding cereal with iTunes. The idea made a lot of sense to me, since there are a wide variety of ways available to marry physical items with the ethereal digital realm… The trick is not confusing your consumers in the process.
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