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.