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Typophile Film Fest 4

// October 26th, 2007 // No Comments » // Design, Film

Last night I had the pleasure of attending Typophile Fill Fest 4 by Punchcut. I arrived at the Swedish American Hall to meet up with some friends from art school to join in the type geekery. Nothing like getting a bunch of creative people into a space and show them beautiful typography with jokes and innuendos that only designers could appreciate.

All of the films where top notch but my favorites were as follows:

1. The Type of World – by Juan Leguzamon
2. Le Grand Content – by Clemens Kogler
3. Enter the Serif – by Johann Pascual

I was totally inspired by these films all in different ways and if anything this has put more fueled the flame to shoot a real short movie. I need to do one, anything before the end of the year. That thought to be continued…

25 Reasons You Might Be A Hardcore Graphic/Web Designer

// October 20th, 2007 // No Comments » // Design, Web

Great post I found off of 9rules. A list of 25 reasons you might be a hardcore graphic/web designer.

Just read it

The New Zune

// October 3rd, 2007 // No Comments » // Design, Technology, Web

This post is not about how Microsoft is forever a copycat in most of what they do, or how the Zune fails miserably due to a lack of Software cohesion with your personal music library. No, this is about unbelievably weak UI implementation on their part.

A co-worker shows me todays front page of the Business section of the San Francisco Chronicle, which is talking about how the new Zune is just an “Imitation”. Duh. I go to their Microsoft’s Zune home page and see the shinny new Zune models all glossy and mirrored. Great. What struck me to post on this is there is all this space on the front page and ONE little link underneath their tag line. Why not make the entire image a click through to “learn more”.

Am I totally wrong here. This seems like a waste and a narrowing of the users ability to learn more about their new shinny Zune’s. One little text link to learn more about your great product. In comparison you go to Apple’s home page and guess what the large image on the front page is a click through. Imagine that. If they want to imitate maybe they should start with their website design and overall user experience.

Kongregate Card Game at PAX07

// September 12th, 2007 // No Comments » // Design, Games

Here is some footage I shot while attending PAX 07 up in Seattle, WA of the Kongregate CCG (collectible card game). I have been working for Kongregate as a freelancer designing the CCG for some time now and this was the first unofficial demo of the game to the public. Seeing peoples reaction to the game for the first time was priceless.

The team at Kongregate gets much props for busting the game out with all their other design and programing duties in time for PAX 07. It has been a great experience designing a game and I have learned a lot in the process. The game is far, but not too far, from being complete and things morph and grow over time. I am slowing weaning myself away from the project as I can not devote enough time to it. As a designer it is always hard to see your baby take wings and fly but it is in capable hands.

Maybe I will make my own Flash Game one of these days… hmmm. If you want to find out more about the game and Kongregate go here. Also a user, r3p3nt, from Kongregate has posted a link to the video as well, he has additional information about the KCCG on his blog if you are interested.

Retro MacOS WordPress Theme

// August 21st, 2007 // No Comments » // Design, Web, Wordpress

I saw this posted up in my feeds from TUAW and was shot back to being in school getting my first dose of the computing world on a Monochrome Apple II. Folders! Windows! oh my…

The theme created by Stuart Brown is a great rendition of the old Macintosh System 6 OS.  Using WordPress myself I love to see people take the time to develop a theme for this great platform. I promise myself that after a large project goes away I will create a new template for myself. Thanks for the inspiration there Stuart.