“The Cornwall Design Week” organized by the Cornwall Design Forum was starting A few days after I arrived back from Brighton.Whoa! I thought Italy was a design based country! keep on reading ‘Cornwall Design Week – Gered Mankowitz Lecture’
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Cornwall Design Week – Gered Mankowitz Lecture
Published November 23rd, 2007 in free for all. 0 Comments
I just arrived back from Brighton after almost a week of volunteering at Flash on the Beach 2007.
As I really needed to show my friends back in Italy this beautiful land I’m living in, last weekend I developed a little photo viewer applet that lets you take a look at the pictures in a very quick simple way
Last saturday I developed an ActionScript 3 RSS reader for my WordPress blog feed. It reads the posts from my blog divide them into categories and then populate each category with the thumb of the posts.
It’s an handy tool as it gives a quick glimpse of what I’ve been doing lately and doesn’t make you browse the whole history of my blog just to see an experiment.
see the experiment
keep on reading ‘RSS reader for my home page’
This morning I’ve been playing with two processing experiments I developed during the weekend.
The first one is a font “randomizer” based on the fontOutlineSystem library by Dave Billinger. I used this one for a poster of Fuzzylogic nights here in Falmouth. I’ll post some pictures when we’ll hung these around.
The second one is an example of Lorentz attractors in action.
The next step I’d like to take is to make each point of the font the start point for the attractors. Maybe inserting some variations in the trail. Let’s see how it goes this week.
In these hot summer days I had some fun making alphabets out of funny things. In my recently acquired ultra-recycling attitude (Cornwall is crazy about it) I was wondering around this filled-with-wonders student house to make something cool.
While going to the kitchen I found out that our forgotten project to make some hoummus that could beat the Tesco’s one turned into something beautiful. After making some tests, in the end I decided to make an alphabet.
So here’s the result when peas gone bad meet a weird typo guy.
This last week I was taking a look at the different ways my computer could tell me that a process is going on: bouncing icons, progress indicators, splash images, but above all “spinning” things.
It seems in fact that clockwise animations are the most common way of showing the concept of waiting.
An old experiment I did for my thesis: try to make letters just with angles.
You can view the whole alphabet here.
This is one of my early attempt to use 3d with depth of field.
The original idea was to build a liquid-like menu for a mobile device interface.
Actually none of the items are clickable but I am happy to leave this experiment as it is: at that time I was quite impressed to find out what you can do with some simple trigonometry and a blur filter!