A quick post after having received an invite from TechCrunch to try out the Wix-experience beta. I was a little skeptical, but for what its purpose is I am content and even a little excited. It provides some nifty widget … Continue reading
Category Archives: Design
Aviary Familiar Image Editing
I finally got around to testing my first of Aviary‘s web-based applications, codenamed Phoenix. I really like what I see. Built intuitively with an interface similar to Photoshop or GIMP, Phoenix is a niftly flash based Image Editor. I was … Continue reading
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Vacuum Illustration
In the name of design I started my practical (home) exam in Mulitmedia-journalism a Tuesday morning in December. Inspired over the years by a number of slick and shining splash-screens, I knew that I wanted to design a cool hoover … Continue reading
Advanced Online Graphic Apps
TechCrunch reports that a project called Aviary has an ambitious goal of providing graphical online application to create multimedia artwork. The online application range from Photoshop and Illustrator resembling applications 2d and vector graphics as well as a 3d application … Continue reading
Color Inspiration
Choosing color (colour) schemes and palettes can be a challenge. Now a site called ColourLovers offers a Social Networking solution for different color combinations. This above specific page is part of their blog and the post is titled: Color Inspiration … Continue reading
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Dice Mosaic Music Video
Earlier this month I wrote about Motiongraphics on T-shirts, below is another innovating music video that I became fascinated and inspired by. Taking something like a dice, a simple everyday object and making it nicely display mosaic animation. Screenshot above … Continue reading
© 2007 stephen olsen. All rights reserved.
Fan Designed Mac Tablet
Half a year ago I briefly mentioned about a Mac tablet in a post about the iPhone,I hoped that Apple would rather produce a Mac tablet rather than the iPhone. However time showed that Apple’s announcement was the iPhone and … Continue reading
© 2007 stephen olsen. All rights reserved.
FormatPixel Online Publishing
FormatPixel gives you desktop publishing capabilities online. Although you are much more limited compared to industry standards such as InDesign, FormatPixel gives you just enough control to design newsletters, leaflets etc. Above is a screenshot of a quick layout I … Continue reading
Motiongraphics on T-shirts
With the large amount of music videos around nowadays, I enjoy finding innovating ideas. This music video, D.A.N.C.E by Justice, features motiongraphics placed on top of footage of people wearing t-shirts. The music is also catchy, and as others have … Continue reading
Compare Fonts Online
Do you struggle to remember what fonts look like? Would you like to compare fonts against each other without manually formatting individually? Well then give TypeTester a try. TypeTester allows you to compare a number of fonts on the fly, … Continue reading
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Fontso & Free Five-hundred Fonts
Last week several links to the “best” 500 free fonts popped on blogs all over the net. Five hundred fonts are rather overwhelming, and I will have to point you in the direction of Choosing better fonts…, before you “overload” … Continue reading
© 2007 stephen olsen. All rights reserved.
Creating PS Tutorial Magic
In my opinion the Photoshop tutorial “market” is oversaturated. Since there are so many, too many tutorials, I find it hard to find really good and useful tutorials. Eventually I don’t bother looking for tutorials at all, thats why I … Continue reading