Posted in events on January 23rd, 2009 by Jared – Be the first to comment
The SXSW Interactive Festival features five days of exciting panel content and amazing parties. Attracting digital creatives as well as visionary technology entrepreneurs, the event celebrates the best minds and the brightest personalities of emerging technology. Whether you are a hard-core geek, a dedicated content creator, a new media entrepreneur, or just someone who likes being around an extremely creative community, you should look into SXSW.
Mark and Jared will be going from the Visual Media team and Sam will be going from TOG.
Posted in web design on January 22nd, 2009 by Jared – Be the first to comment
As a web designer, I try to stay active in the web design community. Apart from going to conferences (SXSW, Webmaster Jam Session, etc) the easiest way to do this is to follow fellow designers through RSS.
On my Netvibes page I have a Web Design tab where I keep up with a handful of designers I think are legit. Some of them update their websites more than others, but the updates are all solid. I definitely recommend subscribing to their RSS feed or at the very least check them out.
Here is the list of designers/sites I actively follow (in no specific order).
I’m sure I am missing out on a bunch of other good blogs, so by all means leave a comment with suggestions.
Another good way to keep up with the community is with Twitter, but that’s an entirely different post.
Posted in web design on January 22nd, 2009 by markcoppock – 1 Comment
Smashing Magazine has two great articles: Web Design Trends for 2009 and More Web Design Trends for 2009.
A bunch of trends are described and shown: rich UIs, PNG transparency, big typography, one-page layouts, huge illustrations and vibrant graphics (a fave: Versions for Mac), more white space than ever, etc. etc. etc. They’ve identified 31 distinct trends/design elements, most ranging from pretty cool to very very.
While things like all-Flash sites can be considered passé, here’s a new one that I love: the 2010 Prius site. Great sound design, and it helps that it’s finally a good-looking car.
Your picks?
Posted in Photoshop, web design on January 20th, 2009 by Jared – 1 Comment
Well known web designer, Jonathan Snook, made a quick screencast explaining how to use the slice tool in Photoshop and Fireworks.
I often find myself often skipping the slicing in PS and just doing it manually. However, after watching the screencast you will see it can be a true time saver – especially when dealing with sending the file (psd) between multiple designers.
Enjoy.
Posted in web design on January 18th, 2009 by Jared – Be the first to comment
Designing websites for state agencies prevents you from getting to crazy in Photoshop. Sure you can try and do something “outside the box” here and there, but the design elements can only be pushed so far.
That doesn’t mean we can’t appreciate others’ free reign. The article 40 Beautiful and Creative Website Footers is a great example of this. While the vast majority of the websites featured are blogs, they are still amazing never-the-less.
Posted in Mac OS X, web design on January 15th, 2009 by Jared – 2 Comments
Stumbling through today’s most popular bookmarks on Delicious I found this gem, 15 mac apps webdesigners should have in their dock.
Jump to the article for pictures and descriptions of each app, but the 15 apps that made the cut were:
- Adobe Creative Suite
- Transmit
- Coda
- Textmate
- CocoaMySQL
- MAMP (MacOSX Apache MySQL PHP)
- Things
- CSSEdit
- Transmission
- MarsEdit
- Skitch
- Parallels Desktop
- MS Office
- Paparazzi
- Twitterriffic
If you using OSX it’s a worthwhile read. All the applications they recommend are solid – in fact I have 12 of the 15 mentioned installed on my computer right now.
Posted in Flash on January 7th, 2009 by clydehance – 2 Comments
While looking for new ae tutorials I noticed this cool little window. Roll over the text under the tag banner on the right.
http://www.motionworks.com.au/category/tutorials/
Posted in Uncategorized on December 20th, 2008 by Mark – Be the first to comment
This site is for the folks in Visual Media to post stuff we find or learn that could help others in the group. It should be better than emailing or IMing stuff around, since we can tag and assign categories to what we put here and search it out later. For more details, see what who why how.
Basically, either register as a contributor to this site to contribute using the built-in forms, or just send me stuff you want to see on this site and I’ll post it. Then, bookmark or RSS the site.
Please let me know if you have questions.
Thanks,
Mark