End of the Year

December 30th, 2007

The finalised and finished Ocean Addict logo:

For more information go to the Ocean Addict site http://www.oceanaddict.co.uk

Christmassy Images

December 14th, 2007

Some images I made while learning a little bit more about illustrator. A lot of this was created by making custom brush tools.

Update on OA Shape

December 4th, 2007

I had some positive feedback from my OA lettering, which is pleasing and here it is featuring a more wavey shaped O and bar across the A.

More Logo Work

November 30th, 2007

My placement work seems to have taken a turn for logo and branding design, this time with a watersports brand called Ocean Addict. Here is one of a few initial design ideas I came up with but am most pleased with.

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Why does IE get PNG images quite so wrong?

November 26th, 2007

Now I have avoided using transparent PNG for a long time despite its various advantages such as having a real alpha channel that can produce smooth, anti-aliased edges and having a proper amount of colours instead of 256, mainly because of IE6. But I have been testing for IE7 for a while now and I knew the issue of PNGs and the handling of their transparency is supposed to be fixed so I reasoned that I could design with PNG transparency in mind and worry about fixing it for IE6 later.

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Font Identification and Logos

November 22nd, 2007

Here are some nice sites I found in my quest to find the font used in a business’s logo. Unfortunately none of them were able to find the font I was after but nevermind.

WTF

http://bowfinprintworks.com/

Flash Portfolio Gallery

November 6th, 2007

I was given a task to create a gallery in flash that cycled through portfolio images like so many you see.

Here is an example of my initial efforts. Its set for 40 pictures at 1 second per picture and doesn’t loop but flicks everything back to the start in quite an impressive (if accidental) manner.

Flash and Javascript

October 31st, 2007

The next plan was to enable the flash in my new design’s header to change the dimensions of the div it was sat in so that for most the time it takes up less room, but when it needs it the space expands to allow for larger content there. I had already anticipated doing something like this so had included the mootools JS library at the very start of building my new design.

http://www.broken-links.com/2007/05/01/a-mootools-quickstart-guide/