Google Fonts API – It’s good and bad

Update 2017/07/17: This post was published a long time ago and a lot has changed since then. Now that font rendering has vastly improved in Browsers Google Fonts is a great choice for web fonts! Recently Google has announced a new API which allows web designers to use custom fonts in their HTML/CSS websites. This […]

May 21, 2010

Purple Squirrels Logo Ident

Here is a short logo ident I made for PurpleSquirrels in my spare time. It’s made in After Effects using Trapcode Particular, Form and Lux as well as Magic Bullet Mojo for a bit of colour grading.

May 18, 2010

32″ DSI Multitouch coffee table construction – Part 1

For a while now I have been planning a 32″ multitouch coffee table. DSI uses a special acrylic which when lit from the edges distrubutes even illumination across the panel. Over the last few weeks I have been collecting bits and pieces and this weekend I started making the top for the table. Photos below. […]

May 16, 2010

Who said Flash websites will need to be re-written?

Steve Jobs did in this blog post entitle ‘thoughs on Flash’. But if you watch the video below (thanks to this blog post by Lee Brimelow) you see that what Steve Jobs is just completely false. Here is what he said: “Flash was designed for PCs using mice, not for touch screens using fingers. For […]

May 12, 2010

Flash running smoothly on Nexus One

Here is a video showing Flash content playing quite nicely on the Google Nexus One mobile phone. The first example demonstrated is great with the 3D interactive animations rendering really smoothly.

May 11, 2010

Cool Microsoft Surface Videos

About a year ago I saw these videos pop up on YouTube showing some really cool physics and cloth simulations on Microsoft Surface. I though I would post them here for everyone to see and easily find them again.

Some more Flash Generative Art

Here are some more generative art pieces I have created in Flash. I am slowly getting better at it. Now that I have figured out how to get high res bitmaps exported from flash I can get much better quality images. These were created at about 2500 x 3000px. Download the Hi-Res images here (ZIP, […]

May 10, 2010

Vimeo Toy featured on Vimeo Forums

A couple weeks ago I created a toy for Vimeo. Vimeo toys a basically an interesting way to visualise a live activity feed. I’m excited to say that they loved my toy and they have featured it in their forums. You can view the toy by clicking the image above, or visit the forum post […]

May 7, 2010

Generative Art in Flash

Recently I have been inspired to create generative art using Flash thanks to Erik Natzke who creates stunning images… all created by ActionScript. I did a fair bit of digging around the net and managed to find a few code examples and video demonstrations on how the images were generated. So as you can see […]

May 6, 2010

Multitouch Jukebox Concept

As most people may know, Adobe released CS5 last week and with it Flash CS5 which now has built in native multitouch events. As an experiment with these new APIs I decided to rework my AS3 coverflow into a multitouch music player using gestures to scroll through album covers. Below you can watch a quick […]

May 4, 2010

Gradient Slider V1

Today I decided to redo my gradient slider as a reusable class. But first I had to learn better OOP so after watching a quick tutorial over at GotoAndLearn I started moving all the code into separate class files. The main thing I wanted to do was to have the slider dispatch a custom event, […]

April 30, 2010

Particular 2 tests.

Below are a couple test video I made using Particular 2. I was experimenting with the settings to see what kind of smoke effects I could achieve.

April 29, 2010