Warning Sifteo cube development is still very ALPHA. And as usual, Documention is sparse/erratic. Here’s my personal notes trying to “get started”. Need to download Sifteo’s developer’s kit, SiftDev SDK. It includes: 6 Demo projects, with some brief documentation on features used SiftDev, a developer’s version of Siftrunner Siftulator (A cube simulator – kinda broken!) …
Ok- so after going to a phonegap SF meetup tonight– I got super excited and needed to get something done tonight. I needed to get something small done since I only had about 3 hours. Goal: Generate & show QR code on iphone simulator Started by following this tutorial on embedding a map: Building your …
Everyone tells me that two fields are rather hot right now in design: UX (User experience) and Mobile design. So, in the two weeks I took off for the holidays, I figured I’d do some dappling in some mobile app creation starting with a simple iPad game. I want to document some of my thoughts …
I just learned that you can add more than 1 background image to an element through CSS. It appeared in one of my student’s CSS exercises and I was floored! Could multiple background images be a solution to create the infamous rounded corners? Simple answer: YES. Continue readingRounded Corners in CSS tutorial
I just got an augmented reality demo to work! It was really easy – Just one afternoon of work. To try it out you need: A webcam, a printout of this page. Click on this link and hold up your printout to your webcam in order to play with the demo.
I pretty much followed this video tutorial by The Flash Blog. It describes how to use the FLAR and Papervision 3d toolkits with Flex to detect a symbol in a video feed and map a 3D model to its plane. I just adapted his tutorial to Flash. (I’ll post my .FLA shortly)
I have a question to poll the audience: If you were to create a new Web design intro class, what would you teach? There were plenty of holes in my knowledge left to fill after my first class (still are plenty of them), but what would you propose adding? Here’s my take on an intro web design class. Do you have anything to add/remove? Let’s be brutal!
I finally decided to try my hand at the music album cover design challenge. The rules make it so that you get a random picture, band name and song title and then design a cover for such a selection. Ivan describes the exact rules in his post. Here is my cover art for Pogonomys Championi, …
Here is a simple way to get a letterpress effect in Photoshop CS3 and above.
To summarize, you apply a bevel and emboss layer style to the area around the ‘imprinted’ art. For this tutorial, I will show how to make the effect and then use smart objects to warp it non-destructively. Continue readingPhotoshop CS3+ Letterpress Tutorial
Tracy and I moved units after seeing this wonderful view. We wake up and come home to this. No drummers beneath us is also a plus.
Here’s something I’m proud of: A card with 12 images on it. What does that make this? a dodecatic? whatever. Just a fun(?) exercise. I remember making things like this in school.