Adobe takes a moment with Adobe After Effects expert Matt Silverman and Bulgarian born poster artist, Luba Lukova ::: [1] http://studio.adobe.com/explore/features/silverman/main.html and [2] http://studio.adobe.com/explore/gallery/luba/main.html
I saw a cover of
I saw a cover of the new Adobe Illustrator 10 at the Sydney Fresh Conference, here it is ::: www.adobe.com/products/illustrator
Here is an interesting section
Here is an interesting section in New Scientist related to mobile phones ::: www.newscientist.com/hottopics/phones
A new and controversial patent
A new and controversial patent proposal under consideration by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) could open the way for companies to claim patent rights–and demand royalties–on standards authorised by the W3C ::: www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/ebusiness/story
The University of Sydney ACM
The University of Sydney ACM Student Chapter, Computer Science Undergraduate Society and Sydney ACM Siggraph present an evening with world leader in Computer Graphics, Prof. David Arnold @ 5:30pm, Monday 8th October. Madsen Building, g92. University of Sydney. Prof Arnold will be talking about his current research in reconstruction of heritage sites as virtual environments using low cost systems.
Bio-Mechanical article on launching WinAmp with Visual Basic
David Johnson from Bio-Mechanical has uploaded a new tutorial in his website to launch Winamp and load up a specific MP3 or M3U (winamp playlist) using VisualBasicScript.
Here are a few other
Here are a few other design websites I’ve come across in the past few months, [1] Nopreload ::: www.nopreload.com, [2] Hammer & Tongs ::: www.tongsville.com, [3] The SkyScraper ::: http://skyscraper.paregos.com, [4] Were-Here Forums ::: www.were-here.com, [5] Protocol 7 ::: www.protocol7.com
The Design Culture Network website,
The Design Culture Network website, by Brian Taylor (Rust Boy and XL5), Michael Schmidt and Toke Nygaard of K10k ::: www.designculture.nu
MikeYoung's DesignGraphik and Submethod websites
MikeYoung’s DesignGraphik, Submethod websites and Planet of the Drums ::: [1] www.designgraphik.com, [2] www.submethod.com [3] www.planetofthedrums.com
The Ciutat De Les Arts
The Ciutat De Les Arts I Les Ciencies; The City of Arts and Sciences, website Spain ::: www.cac.es
The 'studioMagic' website, Surreal Sketch
The ‘studioMagic’ website, Surreal Sketch Gallery ::: www.studiomagic.com
The 'Lord of the Rings'
The ‘Lord of the Rings’ trailers ::: www.apple.com/trailers/newline/fellowship_of_the_ring/
Here is an awesome website,
Here is an awesome website, ‘Levitated’. Full of Flash s and examples ::: www.levitated.net
I'm back from the parties
I’m back from the parties following the Fresh Conference. The 2nd Day of the conference was really great, with excellent presentations by Matt Griffin from Deepend Sydney, Mike Young & Mike Cina, Simon Sankarayya from Digit and Andries Odendaal from Wireframe studio.
Day 1 of the Fresh Conference Sydney (2001)
I just got home from Fresh for a brief moment and so far it has been fantastic. Interesting topics, excellent talks, amazing interaction & design, portfolios and displays.
I’ve got some video and tons of photos to upload, they will come soon.
So far we’ve had talks from:
[1] Joshua Davis, Praystation.com (he has pulled all his websites down, and uploaded some new directions, check it out),
[2] Andrew Johnstone & Jade Palmer from Design Is Kinky on online community,
[3] Tom Roope, Director of Tomato Interactive on Interaction and where its all heading,
[4] Krister Olsson & Stella Lai from Tree-Axis and their positive/negatives views on some of their work and workshop material,
[5] Andy Polaine from ex – Animal Logic, on the current face of the web, its issues, opinions, negatives and Mystery Clock
[6] David Taylor from Attik on Noise2, Richard (Dick) Fosbury and the 3 things to focus and never forget when designing and creating.
[7] Yugo Nakamura, founder of Yugop.com, who blew the crowd away with some lab Digital Virtual Desktop work with Sony CSL Japan and the Sony Kihara Research Centre, totally unbelievable research ::: www.csl.sony.co.jp/person/rekimoto/as.
At the end of the day there was an interesting round table discussion/interaction with the speakers and guests on the status of the web, design, the job market today, educating the client, create for yourself, and where the web is today and possibilities of its future.