While poking around the internets I came across a freeware, Flash Player 9 compatible screensaver utility called InstantStorm. It was used to make Simon Heys’ Word Clock which is a great looking, cross-platform typographic clock. InstantStorm, unfortunately, is Windows-Only, however, Simon himself created a cocoa-based version that he plans to release as an open source project. Let’s hope he stays on the ball!
Archive for the ‘Design’ Category
Freeware AS3 Screensaver Generator
Monday, August 25th, 2008IA Design Patterns
Monday, May 19th, 2008Here’s a site with some cool IA patterns.
Nice One
If you liked that, there’s more at Yahoo’s Design Pattern Library.
This link is from Information Aesthetics… aaand there’s more like this on Ethan Eismann’s blog who is incidentally an Adobe Thermo Developer.
Leopard 10.5 supports 512 pixel icons
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007While playing around with Icon Composer in the newest version of XCode Tools for I noticed that Leopard now supports 512×512 pixel icons – much larger than the older 128×128 pixel icons. I assume this has to do with the Cover Flow view for the Finder which displays icons much larger than the other views. Sure enough, Apple have redesigned all their icons for the new format and they look gorgeous. I took some screen grabs of my favourites. Click the thumbnails to see the details. Notice the small text in the iTunes and Dictionary icons and the textures on the truck and the guitar. Hawt!
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Dictionary
Garage Band
iTunes
TextEdit
Transmit
Napkintop web design for maximum impact
Monday, November 26th, 2007This link is an oldie but a goodie. It has helped me remember to KISS countless times and to focus on the needs of users when designing sites. Check it out.
An Introduction to Using Patterns in Web Design [37 Signals]
How Ironic – Aviary is a CS3 competitor built with Adobe products
Monday, November 26th, 2007
Aviary is a platform ecosystem for people who create. It is organized around a suite of Flex-based rich internet applications geared for artists of all genres. From image editing to typography to music to 3D to video, we have a tool for everything.
Sign up on the site for an early preview invitation. These tools, if not truly competition for CS3, at least look very interesting on the surface. It’s hard to imagine developing so many tools at once.