April 16th, 2008
I decided that what our wordpress-cross-CMS for Ocean Addict required was the ability to browse through the thousands of expected Pages (pages because of the fact they exist outside of the post timeline as a form of static content) forming the school listings via the inbuilt category system. This was easily achievable by creating a page template specifically for displaying a school listing with the Comments and Categories shown and by using the useful plugin Page Category Plus for replicating the Category selection interface in the admin (I was already aware that this was possible since Pages are simply Posts that are treated differently but still have all the same mySQL fields).
While this side of things worked exactly as expected it threw up a unique issue I hadn’t considered.
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March 4th, 2008
A big thanks to the guys at FRED who took ‘we owe you a beer’ literally for the work I did updating their existing flash website and creating a mobile version.
Having been asked what my favourite beer was ‘for a survey’, to which the answer was Barcelona’s Estrella, I was sent 24 bottles! Needless to say I was pleasantly surprised.
February 28th, 2008
One of my latest tasks is to produce 48 icons for a CMS interface!
February 20th, 2008
I am currently working on the Ocean Addict website now alongside several other projects, for which we have decided to use Wordpress as a form of CMS and integrate it with other features such as e-commerce software, a gallery and a forum.
Here is a preview of my current direction of design…
January 20th, 2008
Yet more logo design work it seems, this time for Plymouth’s Trevi House. The task is to basically produce a modern looking logo to replace their old one (Old Trevi House logo).
Here I have used their original image of a woman and child as a basis for the central focus of the logo, except that this image is perhaps more aesthetically dynamic.
January 11th, 2008
I have been studying lately the art of creating ambigrams out of words and names with the purpose of using them within my logo design work. Here is one I created from the company name APCues:
Sketches
Information
http://www.johnlangdon.net/index.html - John Langdon
http://www.stepinsidedesign.com/STEP/Article/28765
After doing a number myself, I wondered if there was anywhere I could find examples of any two letters that have been mixed together. Instead I found an ‘ambigram generator’ here http://ambigram.matic.com/ambigram.htm, which is ok for getting a little bit of inspiration.
December 30th, 2007
The finalised and finished Ocean Addict logo:
For more information go to the Ocean Addict site http://www.oceanaddict.co.uk
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.
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.
