New Site Design Underway
30th August, 2009
I have actually been slowly working on this (slowly being a bit of an understatement) for a while but keep having to put it off for other commitments. Usually this means I get a bit of time when I’m tired and not up to doing much else and a stint on Fallout III is only going to make things worse.
However here are a couple more screenshots of a general basic layout and more button-y bits since the last lot of menu icons!
Other plans include a bigger better blog post preview image, related posts links, using the excerpt field of posts and some form of proper search function that includes AJAX-ed suggestions.
Marathon Sketch Upload to Flickr
19th August, 2009
I’ve scanned and uploaded a whole load of things I had intended to for quite a while. This is because I had my scanner out to scan a sketch for the new site’s header image:
Among some pretty random old stuff, there were also a couple of concept sketches for my recent Final Year Project:
Website menu buttons in vector:
And a quick scribble of an idea for the idat menu button:
Wine Website Design Samples
5th August, 2009
Here is a better sample of the graphics I have been working on after studying a number of sites suggested by the client as to the style they are looking for.
Individual vine leaf vector graphics:
New Site Icons
20th July, 2009
A couple of preview screenshots of some of the vector icons I’ve been producing for the new website design:
Turned Wood
4th May, 2009
I decided to take a quick shot as a preview of the turned banksia nut wood before further processing. The material of the first one (bottom) was too soft to produce my modified bullet shape design, so I reverted to the simpler shape for the second nut.
The two banksia nuts turned into the handle shape.
The next stage will be to hollow out the centre of the handle to allow light and wires through.
Banksia Nut Wood
25th April, 2009
So here is the wood I have nearly finally decided to make my actual physical interface from. Aside from the massively intriguing aesthetic nature of the wood, I feel that it draws attention to the physicality of the interface and fits in with a plan to emphasise the human-computer connection by allowing me to create a piece that emanates light from its core when interacted with. Essentially the holes could be illuminated from the inside and glow to indicate the level of connection between the user and the computer.
Image from axminster.co.uk
Quick Interface Sketch
24th April, 2009
Having considered a number of alternative means of connecting human with hardware, I’m going down the route of using a joystick-like handle with the various sensors placed in suitable positions in contact with the fingers and palm.
Here is a very, very quick sketch of what I have in mind:
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