Posted by Jess in Fresh Meat, Opinions on October 27, 2011 - 8:49 pm
There is something really beautiful about paper. The possibilities of color, texture, weight, and material are endless. One of the blogs that I visit during my morning read, Art Hound, had a blog post that featured Darrah Gooden and her paper collage animals (she was also featured on a another site that I visit daily as well). I loved the depth each animal has and the use of blue in many of the pieces. Gorgeous!
My favorite is probably the moose. Which animal portrait is your favorite!
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Posted by Jess in Design, Fresh Meat on October 11, 2011 - 4:04 pm
The Official Manufacturing Company created the store design for a Gap in Glendale, CA, and was inspired by the small store and community that the clothing chain has grown from. While the entire store was an awesome example of experience design and totally worth checking out, my favorite pieces were the hand painted typographic signs.
Hand painted signs catch my attention every time. They feel authentic and genuine among all the other mass produced materials we are surround with. There’s just something special about the time and process for each painstakingly painted letter.
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Just the other day here at Oneupweb, a fellow developer mentioned that he wished he was able to get into animation. This is something I’ve often heard from other developers who, despite being able to tackle any code-based logic problem hurled their way, balk at the idea of animating something. With the widespread adoption of Flash, growing browser support for the HTML5 , and WebKit’s adoption of CSS3 keyframing demonstrates—a grasp of basic animation principles is only going to become more important as time goes on. With that in mind, I wanted to take the opportunity to share some links to some very useful tutorials for getting started with animation using whichever tool you prefer.
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This tutorial form Lee Munroe is an excellent example of how simple it is to get started with CSS3 keyframing. Going over the basics of setting up a document, setting appropriate styles, and then actually keyframing the animation. This tutorial demonstrates how easy it is to start experimenting with motion. Later in the tutorial, Lee provides links to some very impressive examples of the types of effects that can be achieved using CSS3 keyframing.
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The Mozilla Developer Network has an excellent section on the new HTML5 element and the basic principles behind it. Although some knowledge of JavaScript is necessary, the tutorial does a fantastic job of laying the necessary foundation for exploring this powerful new tool in website development. After you finish the tutorial, I wholeheartedly encourage you to continue exploring what you can do with canvas by reading over CreativeJS’s “31 Days of Canvas Tutorials”. http://creativejs.com/2011/08/31-days-of-canvas-tutorials/
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I consider Flash the granddaddy of animation on the web. It’s what I cut my teeth on learning animation, it’s an incredibly powerful tool. This tutorial from Entheos walks you through the basics of setting up the Flash stage, importing assets, and creating a very simple animation that also looks very striking. Although it does require that you have Adobe’s Flash CS5, this is one you can’t miss if you have the application installed on your computer and haven’t taken the opportunity to see just what you can do with it.
Whether you try your hand at just one or all three of the tutorials I’ve referenced above, I hope you consider the role of animation in your future projects. If you’re interested in seeing what animation can add to a website, check out the headers on the Oneupweb home page. Keep up with your audience’s expectations and start building up those skills!
Bonus Link!
For those of you who have gotten past the basics and are looking for something a little more challenging, I wholeheartedly recommend taking the time to tackle “The Walk Cycle”. Idleworm.com has a great tutorial on this…
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Posted by Jess in Design, Fresh Meat on September 13, 2011 - 5:44 pm
Mark Böttler is a cool dude. I can tell because he created optical illusions for each letter of the alphabet using wood blocks. By setting some blocks flat and some stacked up, as well as the angle of the camera, the illusions are really well done and can actually be hard to spot.
Typography and optical illusions. Doesn’t get much cooler than this.
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Anyone else appreciate hand-made quilts? I’ve always loved them since I was little, after reading The Patchwork Quilt by Valerie Flournoy. I thought that it was so cool that tiny square scraps of fabric from favorite t-shirts, Halloween costumes, and special occasions were made into a quilt that lasted long after those clothes stopped fitting or wore out.
Then, a few weeks ago, I read this post on Agustina Woodgate, which was a short clip on her “poetry bombing”, or quickly stitching inspiring messages into the clothes at thrift stores around Miami. Intrigued, I clicked over to her personal website, where many cool projects and ideas live. But these rugs were by far my favorite.
The cool kaleidoscope patterns make me want to rotate them to see how they will change and I also like how they are not completely symmetrical. You may not be able to guess what these huge colorful rugs are made from. I’ll give you a minute to guess.
These rugs are pieced together from the recycled “skins” of stuffed animals. For me, I played with a lot of stuffed animals and each one has memories attached to them. So it’s cool to see stuffed animals with so many memories, that have been outgrown and abandoned, get a new life in these rugs.
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