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- 50 Fresh Interactive Studio and Social Media Agency Websites
This is a very inspiring collection of digital/interactive agency websites. Note the ratio of flash to html sites. - Web Design Inspiration for the iPhone
Finally! A Gallery of sites designed for iPhone! - 40 Excellent Adobe Illustrator Tutorials
This looks like an awesome collection of tutorials to create all kinds of great things in illustrator. - 50 Useful New JQuery Techniques
With all the great JQuery and CSS effects I distance myself from Flash more and more. - Labuat
This is one of the coolest Flash/Music integrated sites ever!
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Free IP Geolocation API
Posted October 21st, 2008 in Code Examples, Web Tools | No Comments »
Mashups are all the rage right now, so from time to time I run across something that I know could be used in amazing ways. Lately I’ve found a new litttle app that will find all location-based information based on their IP address and send back the data in your format of choice: JSON, Plain [...]
Contextual Blog Layouts
Posted October 20th, 2008 in Code Examples, Design Examples | No Comments »
This is a handy-dandy article that talks about formatting the layout of your content contextually based on the content within the post. So if the content is a new item it will look one way, if it’s portfolio item it will look another way. A subtle formatting tip, but useful none-the-less. Check it out!
A simple, sexy FLV player
Posted October 17th, 2008 in Web Tools | No Comments »
I ran across this little gem the other day whilst I was googling my way through the day. It is by far one of the best free FLV player components I’ve seen, ever. It is really simple to setup and customize, PLUS it has 5 skin templates (my favorite is the dark one).
It not only [...]
Get an iPhone… for free!
Posted October 16th, 2008 in Web Tools | No Comments »
Sorry for the long absence on the blogging frontier. I’ve been chained to my desk working on a mini-site for Long John Silver’s (sounds fishy doesn’t it). Anyway, today I’ve finally got my life back and I will resume my attempted daily posting.
To start off the fun, I’ve found this really cool AIR app which [...]
Shake it!
Posted October 2nd, 2008 in Current Trends | No Comments »
As a creative person in the Ad industry, sometimes it can be a challenge to come up with an advertising piece that people actually notice. It’s tough now-a-days because we’ve all become descensitized to online ad media. However, I have to point out this new ad for Wario Land for Wii. It breaks out of [...]
How to use 3D in Illustrator
Posted September 26th, 2008 in Design Examples | No Comments »
I don’t know about other designers out there, but my utilization of the 3D tool in Illustrator is pretty infrequent. Sure, it’s good for skewing an image or illustration to composite on an image or something, but really, what can you create with it? Well, my eyes were opened after I read this tutorial. Give [...]
God loves even these people
Posted September 24th, 2008 in Miscellaneous | No Comments »
Oh boy. A diversion from our regular scheduled programming. You know, it’s great when people try to spice up religion to keep it current and interesting. Some succeed in amazing ways. Others, well… fail miserably and I can’t help but wonder if God is laughing too.