Archive for the ‘Design’ Category

Filed Under (Creative, Design, Gnomedex, New Media, flash) by eric.doolan on 18-07-2007

I'm Going to Gnomedex!

So, Will and I are going to be going to Gnomedex 2007. It will be in Seattle Washington (August 9th-11th 2007). It’s going to be great to have the chance to meet all of you and take in all the excitement. I’ve personally only been blogging for about 6 months, but I’ve had the privilege to work with a talented team of web professionals that specialize in the educational vertical. Within our team we have utilized many blogs and new media strategies to increase our companies ROI.

It’s great to see that Microsoft is a main sponsor along with Google. I’ve had some great long term relationships with both of these companies. Where’s the after party?

- See you all there



Filed Under (Charity, Design) by eric.doolan on 17-07-2007

Darfur Wall Org

I can’t really remember how I found this Darfur Wall donation site, but I think it’s a creative idea in which to raise money for one of the world’s worst tragedies of my era. Buy a number it’s only a buck. If you don’t feel comfortable enough doing that then at least educate yourself on what’s going on in the western Sudan Region.

Wikipedia – Darfur Conflict
Darfur Wall – Donation Site



Filed Under (Creative, Design, flash, games) by eric.doolan on 16-07-2007

Flash Games These three games are pretty old, but I remembered them today and thought they were well worthy of resurrecting their genius. I think full flash sites have their place but so many times I see people over use flash for getting their product or name out there. Now these three exploration games are have it all, Visuals, Sound, Inactivity and a Storyline.

Polyphonic Spree – Promotion Site

Samorost I & Samorost II



Filed Under (CSS, Design) by eric.doolan on 05-07-2007

Pingdom

Pingdom.com

A great tool to test your website’s object loading and download times, it also breaks it all down into a Hierarchical manner. Objects including (images, CSS, JavaScript, RSS and frames/iframes).

EricDoolan.com site using Pingdom.com



Filed Under (Color, Design) by eric.doolan on 15-06-2007

Pantone Colorstrology Results for my family
So, one of my coworkers sent me this link to a really cool clock that Pixel Breaker built and I started to research how the colors of this clock related to each other. Then I found a Pantone site that had some great Colorstrology type relationships. Checkout the links and enjoy.

Pixel Breaker Polar Clock
Chromo – Color and time relationships
Colorstrology - Pantone Site



Filed Under (Color, Design, flash) by eric.doolan on 31-05-2007

Adobe Labs - Kuler

Adobe Labs - Kuler

http://kuler.adobe.com

Adobe Labs has created a great color palette creation site called Kuler. You can find many custom color palettes that have been already created and rated here. The power in this tool is revealed in the “Create” area. Lock in a base color and choose from many traditional color theory rules like: Analogous, Monochromatic, Triad, Complimentary, Compound, Shades and or your own custom color palette, Kuler will do the rest for you. Save yourself time and get additional impact out of your designs with a professional color palette tool like Kuler.



Filed Under (Design) by eric.doolan on 29-05-2007

brands of the world

Brands of the World
http://www.brandsoftheworld.com/
This is a great place to find just about any logo you have ever seen. Most of these are AI or EPS files which are great for scaling and printing. I do want to warn you though that these are recreated by people of the interweb. They are not always perfect, but it can get the job done if you need something quick and dirty.

Remember these should only really be used for personal use. If you have the right to use a logo then I’m sure the company would be glad to send you the official file.



Filed Under (Design) by eric.doolan on 24-05-2007

Go to dafont website

Great font site that is totally comprehensive
http://www.dafont.com

Dafont.com is a free font site that covers many font types like: Fancy, Foreign look, Techno, Bitmap, Gothic, Basic, Script, Dingbats, Holiday, Serif and San Serif fonts. Not only does it have a great selection of free fonts but the site catalogs the fonts Authors, Top 100 and font tools. Low cost font management, font conversion, font creation and other various font tools.

For budget restricted projects this is usually my first place I look for new fonts or finding that matching font that someone is looking for.



Filed Under (Design, Tutorials) by eric.doolan on 24-05-2007

Adobe Post

Tutorials: Provided By Adobe
http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/video_workshop/
So CS3 has launched, now what to do with all this new stuff? Adobe has been so kind to create a Video Workshop full of tutorials on their current product line: Acrobat 8, Dreamweaver CS3, Flash CS3 Professional, Illustrator CS3, InDesign CS3, Photoshop CS3 Extended and much more.