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.
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.
I’ve just finished off a little project for CBDigital a small video production company. The project was a multi-media DVD containing over 40 presentations and discussions on spinal research and development for the SSA (Spine Society of Australia) an abnormal sort of client, but seemlingly familiar in the way that I have spent a lot of time with orthapedic specialists and had numerous x-rays over the past 15 months.
The project intself has taken roughly 50hrs flash development time, also included a day of layout and design. Built with AS3 it was the first time I have incorporated FLV’s in a project since using AS2. To be honest it was a breeze working with the flv using net connection and net stream… just loved it, listening for cue points worked seamlessly and I have fallen in love with Custom Events…. shit I sound boring! HA.
Well the other good thing about this job was it was running locally so no bother really with pre-loading, although there is still a time delay on loading images so loading still needed to be taken into consideration. The project as always had the additional functionality added towards the end and the job is done and dusted all alterations can now be made in the xml, something the client is more than happy to do…. unless more functionality is needed. NO WORRIES.
Anyway good fun job as it went smoothly and the client as always was happy!
