A colleague in the tech business recently told me “banner ads are dead.” While that suits me fine as someone who would rather not be annoyed by flashing mortgage offers and bogus award notifications, ...
As much as I love graphic design, there was a point in my life where I had to choose which of my two passions I wanted to sell. Having definitely not enjoyed the work of a performing musician, I el...
Old watches are a hobby of mine. The gears that are precision-made to turn the hands at coordinated rates of speed are the original computer programming, and the incredible craftsmanship that went ...
There are some delightful paralells between design and music. Historically, such as expressionism have found their roots in both music and art. However, instrument design has been firmly mired in t...
Throughout history, skilled designers and craftsmen have ended up in the soup line when a sudden technology change (like the linotype machine followed by phototypesetting) explodes onto the scene. ...
The Fireworks Tutorial posted earlier is now part of the Adobe Support Site for Fireworks (in a somewhat expanded form). See it here.
Just playing here with some cool patterns and textures. There's a whole branch of geometry called "tilings" that deals with patterns that interlock endlessly but not necessarily symmetrically. He...
From a post I made on John Nack's blog on the Adobe site. Seems to me there's a culture-conflict issue. Let me begin by saying that I'm a huge Fireworks evangelist. If that program disappeared, I'...
Here's a very simple on-ramp into the world of actionscripting that can produce some very powerful results. Just as a rock (or any other object) has "properties" like hardness, weight, color, etc.,...
With a little bit of skill in interpreting a photograph and a few wood textures, it's possible to do some very convincing digital marquetry work. For the unitiated, marquetry is the art of cutting ...
This was an off-the-cuff response I wrote to a question on one of the Flash newsgroups. It was well-received a few years ago so it lives on here at DesignBlogger.com. I do a lot of college teachi...
On January 2, I launched a Flash site for Tony Vines Guitars. Tony builds about 15 beautiful instruments every year. From my own selfish, creative perspective, the project was great because Tony s...
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