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XD Visuals HTML website

chop — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 03:10:54 +0000

Just finished a website for Job Wallis at xD Visuals. Comes complete with a customised CMS that is styled as the main website. Built in HTML (no Flash) I used webfonts which are very cool and a billion times more reliable than flash… ;~

This shows the projects administration page….

Telegraph Olympics – [Pitch]

chop — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 05:57:57 +0000

I’ve just done some design/illustration work a pitch for my friends over at http://www.caffeinehit.com/. All going to plan there could be 10 different mini games to be designed and illustrated, all to be developed in CSS3 and HTML5.

Anniversary Invites

chop — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 22:02:10 +0000

I recently created some invitations for my Aunty and Uncles’ 50th Wedding Anniversay. ‘The Golden Anniversary’ as it is named required some ‘gold’ in the design, so I decided it was a perfect job for the old Gocco. Before I told my Aunty I would be able to print in gold, I had to check I could still get the ‘Art Gocco’ supplies as I remebered they were going out opf production… My print supplier had bought a lot of back stock so they still has bulbs and screens, and were running out of inks. I was a little suprised to see the actual cost of screens had gone up from $15 for 5 to over $45 for 5, a nice %300 price rise. I ended up spending over $75 just on art gocco supplies.

The design involved printing the photographic elements on a bubblejet and the printing borders and titles in the gold. It is fun and satisfying when you get into the printing with the gocco, and once set up it is relatively quick. I personally love that the print isn’t perfect and you can see spots where the ink can be thin at times, or a little rough from the exposure.

The biggest time element was actually printing over 300 pages on the bubblejet, it took around 12 hours, and at one point when I went out to get some milk the paper jammed… TYPICAL. Anyway my Aunty was over the moon with them, and has told me that everyone adored them, so job well done.

Typoart website launch

chop — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 23:04:23 +0000

Recently I have just launched typoart.com.au a HTML/CSS/jQuery based website. Focusing on customised typographical based art, this relatively small e-commerce based website is something I haven’t done for a long time which is a complete website with no flash. One of the main reasons behind this is small budget, quick turnaround and low and behold it work on iOS!!!! So I’ve had a dabble now in jQuery which I find rather cool. However don’t get me wrong flash is not dead…. but it has it’s place and for somthing like this website, there is no need. My CSS is also improving, and I think one of the most important featrue in CSS is display:

Instead of handling the transaction internally, again I have opted for Paypal. I find it extremely annoying developing for paypal using there sandbox, it so non user friendly… well the whole paypal website is good example of frustration! Next e-commerce solution I would like to try something like eWAY.

I also designed the logotype and am about to start designing all the stationary ect….

‘Love projects are called love projects for one reason, they send you broke!’
Leon Wilson

AIAM100 Launch Party

chop — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 03:10:56 +0000

After a year and a half of telling people I’ve been building this site, we finally had the AIAM100.com website and exhibtion launch party on Friday night at Cooee Art Gallery in Lamrock Ave. Bondi.

Australian Indienous Art Market top 100 (AIAM100) is a website show casing the top Australian indigenous artists based on their market performance in the secondary art market. Over 130 profiles compiled by Adrian Newstead give the user a detailed view of each artist. Market Performance results are supplied by Australian Art Sales Digest (AASD), these results allow the AIAM100 to calculate the AIAM100 index and rank each artist accordingly. It also provides the overall health of the industry, for example the peak in 2007.

Adrian Newstead at the opening of the AIAM100 website and exhibiton

Ruth Hessey & Adrian Newstead

Being completely built in Flash I see this website as being a RIA rather than just a website. I know I know, it’s not the normal site to be completely built in Flash, and it raised numerous challenges along the way, especially regarding text layout, formatting and resizing (which are basic things we take for granted in developing an html based site). 50% of the site is it’s cutom built php based CMS, along with an extensive database, allowing AIAM administrators to easily publish new artists profiles.

Although i’ll still be working on adding a few more features it’s a great feeling to get AIAM100.com site live into the public.

Moran Prizes web kiosk app for NSW State Library

chop — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 07:22:37 +0000

I recently just finished the ‘People’s Choice Award’ web kiosk application for the NSW State Library. The purpose of the app is to allow the public to vote on their favourite from the Moran Prizes exhibition.

The screen cast shows the general flow of the app, it was relatively siple and includes a back end admin to display user data.

State Library of NSW 100 exhibiton Kiosk App

chop — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:15:10 +0000

I’ve just finished the design and development of a flash based kiosk app for the State Library of NSW 100 Exhibiton. Originally I was contacted by Mental Media to do the job.

The app was fairly straight forward in process, providing the public the ability to vote on their favourite exhibiton item, view favourtie exhibiton item, complete a survey and enter a draw.

All data is saved into a mySQL database and the library staff can access a admin page to download the various data as CSV files. I had some fun with PHP merging all the tables to provide a simple usable table for the non-technical staff.

The app is running continuously for 100 days, so it was seriously important that there were no memory leaks. Flash and no memory leaks can be a time consuming effort…. At the end of the project I did encounter a memory anomaly where the memory seemed to jump 5MB every time an image was displayed on screen, although I was loading the images from memory. It turned out it was due to the fact I added a drop shadow to the image at runtime…. therefore flash somehow needed to reprocess that shadow area as a new image. This turned into a problem when I couldn’t access it, even by removing the filter, it still kept it in memory. Quick solution.. got rid of the drop shadow.

Alphabet Sign Spectrum

chop — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:44:58 +0000

This is just done for fun to break up a day of coding…. Needed a little colour in the day! desktop size avaiable on my flickr page

Wireless Alarm Logo

chop — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:08:53 +0000

Logo Design I created for a friend in London.

Snow Leopard, maybe next Winter….

chop — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 08:30:05 +0000

Stupid me I upgraded from Leopard to Snow Leopard the other day, for some reason I thought everything would be ok, but the last week has been somewhat frustrating, so much that I am going to do a fresh install back to Leopard. Whats frustrating, well I’ll tell you, most programs I use now suffer a huge reduction in performance, photoshop and illustrator have hard times even starting up, if you can get the to start up. Firefox has probably halved in speed, forcing you to use Safari, which they say is fast but still seems slower for some reason!

However the speed is one thing, but its all the day to day software I use which has suddenly disappeared, and looking on forums there doesn’t look like updates to support Snow Leopard will be anytime soon… DOH! Annoying… my Canon printer driver will apparently be released sometime in October, GREAT!

Apart from the easy upgrade process, it looks like I’m going to have a painful downgrade process over the weekend!

My recommendation to anyone thinking of upgrading to Snow Leopard is DON’T JUST YET! Give it 6 months or so!