My online journal featuring a strange mix of art, web-design, programming and anything else that comes to mind.
Some posts you might like to start browsing are tagged Artwork, Photography or Website Design.
July 25th, 2008
I thought I would try and make some category images for the main shop categories for the Ocean Addict site, and here are some of the first ones:
I felt vector images better suited the general style of the site, since previous graphics like the SAS Beach Cleanup image looked so good the moment it was planted in the sidebar.
July 14th, 2008
So I’ve had a holiday in a caravan with my family in rainy Cornwall during the week that had possibly the worst forecast for July ever. So bad in fact that our local presenter David Braine was demonstrating rainfall as dyed blue water in glasses, comparing the monthly average, which wasn’t very much, against a full glass symbolising what was expected to fall in just one day.
However it turned out nowhere near as bad as this and from the sounds it was further up nearer home that got all this rain. So we managed to visit some very beautiful places of which I have taken and uploaded photos to Flickr. I also managed to take a couple of quite successful panoramic photoshop-merged shots.
June 29th, 2008
Thinking ahead to the 4th year game’s module and the fact I heard that part of the module is writing an essay on a game, well here is my most likely answer:
Personally I think this is the best game concept ever, and its still great after ten years.
June 28th, 2008
I have started work on a new design for http://www.mattwreford.com/, the owner of which felt that his existing site wasn’t really up to scratch. Knowing only that the client likes very simple and minimal designs, here is a screenshot of my initial layout and general concept for the site.
It will be quite a simple structure of 5 pages (four plus a link to a CV download) as requested, tabbed, and with two main content columns that serve different purposes on each page. For the CSS aspect of this design I have experimented with fluid column widths on both sides, where the content is grouped clearly in two blocks but they centre and expand within their columns with the resizing of the page.
June 14th, 2008
Here is a pencil sketch of Calm Down (from the 80’s cartoon Stoppit and Tidyup) drawn while waiting between support messages for a server yesterday. Very theraputic.
Based on a couple of puzzles I received a long time ago, this flash generates a random puzzle and then jumbles the pieces up for the player to solve.
The flash actionscript behind this is flexible enough to allow for any size
puzzle to be created and jumbled as many times as I like. In addition to this,
the difficulty of rotating pieces is also a feature.
