I was looking for the presentation for yesterday’s VanUE presentation from IDEO’s Gentry Underwood. Best I could come up with was some notes on his talk (it is actually for his talk that he gave at Web 2.0 Expo NYC but it sounds close enough).
In case anyone else was interested or missed it:
http://www.disseminate.com/2008/09/ideo-on-knowledge-sharing-web-20-expo.html
Development:
Design:
Browser Enhancements:
“This graph paper is made for visual designers, interaction designers, and information architects. You’ll find styles for wireframing user interfaces, story boarding interaction, and plotting values on a two by two grid. Plus you’ll get a basic grid for drafting sitemaps or anything else that might come up.
These pages are great for sketching, but also work well when producing high fidelity drawings. The title bar and grid lines are non-photo blue, so you can easily remove them when scanned. The thick black lines for boxes will show in scans and are 2px wide to match the weight of Pentel Sign Pens.”
Thought this was cool.
http://vector-art.blogspot.com/2008/10/typolution.html
Well I am not exactly sure what Nick is jealous of (I can’t even get ShadowBox working on my blog). But like Nick I (Jamie Peterson aka DD10Jamie) have been trying to revive a blog that got lost and died somewhere along the way. So far I have been writing about meatballs, new software and posting some of the work I have done that most people would never see unless it was posted on some small, biased blog. In an effort to motivate me to continue to post and to create something of a draw for people to visit I have been thinking of ways to add weekly or monthly features to my site. The first one that I have just unveiled is a series of tutorials ranging from Photoshop, Final Cut, After Effects and everything in between. The requirements for these tutorials are that the techniques or tricks I explain have to be something fun, interesting, new (not already available on the internet) and most importantly useful and practical.
This morning I am releasing the first tutorial, Melon-Chromatic, which will explain how to recreate the paint drip effect as seen in the new iPod Nano commercials. You can see a video of what you will be doing in the link below and if you visit my blog you can download the tutorial PDF and a completed project file. All you need to bring to the party is your own copy of After Effects. Sound good? Excellent. If you are a first or second term student don’t worry. I believe that I have written this in an easy enough way that you should be able to make something cool. And if you still don’t get it send me an email. If that doesn’t work, go ask Bun. If nothing else after you go through the tutorial you should have pretty thorough understanding of masks in After Effects.
Oh and I am going to ask for a favor. If you get a chance, please leave a comment or email me with your impressions, comments, complaints. Thanks. One last thing. Bookmark, delicious, twitter, facebook or whatever you do to remember dope websites please do that. Okay that’s it, really this time. Go make some cool stuff.
It’s like 5 Alarm except from the guy who made that awesome video with Gwen Stefani. Okay maybe that video wasn’t that great but I happened upon this and thought that it might interest everyone. Instead of me trying to explain it all I will let Moby.
Moby introduces mobygratis.com from moby gratis on Vimeo.
I just went through the request form for a song and it was really fast. I only had to give a discription of what the project is and of the scene it will be in. It is currently being reviewed but I will update saying how long the wait was.
Here is as lively talk about the future of interaction design from cyberpunk author/legend Bruce Sterling. It was the closing lecture at the ‘Innovationsforum Interaktionsdesign’ conference in Potsdam, Germany. He painted a weird and wonderful vision of the future filled with biometrics and wireless money transfers. Probably one of the best futurist rants I’ve heard in a long time. He shoots down talking computers (think Mr. Clippy) and runs through a piece of the large list of technologies that were assimilated by the cell phone. Check it out, you’ll feel like a better person at the end. I swear.
p.s. - The ‘Innovationsforum Interaktionsdesign’ was one of the most important conferences on interaction design in 2007. All presentations from the conference are available as videos on the conference site (note that many of the lectures are in German).
Bruce Sterling from Innovationsforum on Vimeo.
Link.
I wanted to give all current students and alumni a heads up about some Papervision 3D 2.0 training coming to Vancouver on May 3rd and 4th. It is presented by the Rich Media Institute and you will be trained by Papervision 3D core team member John Grden. If you are interested in the course let me know because if enough people are going to go I can get you a group rate.
Hi Guys,
I think you should know why you all saw Danny almost every night at school for the past couple weeks, well, Danny was working non-stop on three videos for the GRAPHEX 2008 Gala.
Paperium is a unique digital pen. The thing that makes this a bit different then most digital pens is that it can save your artwork as vectors. This will probably seem like a to good to be true device to those that cherish the pen and hate the tablet. A bit pricey at 229.00 EUR, especially since you need their special paper as well, but it’s still less then a big tablet.