You wish you were here…

Been looking at alternative font-replacement techniques of late, and have just received my beta invite to TypeKit.com. The idea behind their service, is that they host the fonts, you pay a monthly fee, and you can embed whatever font from their lib into your site via js and css. No flash/image/php replacement techniques, no hiding [...]

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Ive been meaning to begin cataloging the collection of prints I have from various exhibitions, events and artists. Well, to start things off, here’s my favourite piece : Shepard Fairey’s Obey With Caution .

So last week I had the opportunity to get my hands dirty with PaperVision3D. As mentioned previously, the company I work for has been responsible for implementing the 2008 Earth Hour website. Well, as part of that, I had a crack at visualising the global support being given to the Earth Hour movement. Using AS3, [...]

Yesterday I had the pleasure of spending time in several bookshops, just browsing. One of the stores I visited was Kinokuniya, in George St. It’s a great store (if at times a little over-priced), with a huge range of books. But because the shop is so large, they try and help shoppers with a touch-screen [...]

Just a short note (while I give my brain a break from the AS3 learning), to mention that the Redant site (where I work) has been updated. For those interested, we moved to Radiant, a neat Ruby CMS. It was a relatively painless process – although Ben and Toby may have more of an opinion [...]

Awesome piece of accidental design layout that created one sweet looking unicycle!

Just doing some contra design work over the weekend, looking for an image of a table (using the super handy website YotoPhoto, and came across this art installation by Giancarlo Neri, titled The Writer. Awesome!

Here’s a unique banner ad experience courtesy of SMH.com.au. (Click for a more detailed look) George Michael, advertising his latest offering… and usually I wouldn’t be tempted to click a banner… but this one was soo bad that I was compelled to! What was I expecting to happen? I’m not sure, maybe some tacky joke [...]

Another example of what I think is an inappropriate banner ad showing up on fairly seroius news articles. Image courtesy SMH.com.au

Just doing my regular morning scour of the web, and came across this article in SMH. The article is about a faulty Sony product that nearly burnt a house down… but that’s not what caught my eye. What did was this : (Screenshot courtesy of SMH.com.au.) Notice anything *slightly* odd about this? An article about [...]

My boss just pointed out an article over at 37 Signals about Threadless, my favourite Tshirt company. If the figures quoted in the article are correct, they are doing a fine business, and good luck to them. The reason people (like me) keep coming back is because it treats us the way we want to [...]

Whatever else Microsoft are doing wrong with Vista et al, the visuals they are using for the imminent release of their much-hyped Zune player are refreshingly non-MS. Check out their Coming Zune website. Rather nice.