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Escaping Sanity – Allflaws Music Video by Swankoid

March 11, 2010| All, Updates, VJ or Video |

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The new Music Video For ALLFLAWS. Single released Friday April 23rd.

OWL – Promotional EP Flyer

December 31, 2009| All, Graphic Design, Updates |

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BEST INFO DISC – New Site Released

May 11, 2009| All, Updates, Web Design |

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This is the official release date of the Best Info Disc website. It is a fully functioning e-commerce site designed to sell a range of Self Hypnosis CD’s by the much admired Randy Charach. The design is clean and simple yet stylish in order to give the products and information full attention.

What Font Is It Anyway?

March 31, 2009| All, Articles |

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Have you ever come across a great font in a book, a magazine, t-shirt, sign, poster, WHATEVER? Imagined how great it would look on your work but have no way of finding out what font it is? Fear not, WhatTheFont! to the rescue. WhatTheFont! is a great little web app that allows you to take a picture of that perfect font, upload it to their server, let their system do some fancy equations, mull it over for a while, then spit out the name of the font pictured in your file, fantastic. If you’re lucky enough to have an iPhone you can get this as a portable app too.

Genius! Do you have one?

March 15, 2009| All, Articles |

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There are some fantastic videos online from TedTalks. It shows talks from some pretty switched on people from the TedTalks Conferences. This one gives a nice insight and some food for thought.

In the video the talker, Elizabeth Gilbert, discusses how we view creative people, and how we ‘burden’ them with their creative achievements by giving them full responsibility for them. She talks of the way it used to be believed that we had a genius rather than being one. The genius in this circumstance being some otherworldly being, so to speak, that comes to give us our inspiration and ideas.

Making Embedded Videos Web Standards Compliant

February 28, 2009| All, Tutorials |

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Ok, so you’ve spent hours tweaking your web code to make it web standards compliant and finally everything seems to be working fine, it’s almost ready to go.. Then unsuspectingly you add an embedded video from YouTube or wherever and whoa, somethings gone horribly wrong. Multiple violations are staring you in the face, what on earth are you going to do now?

Have no fear, it’s not as bad as it seems, actually, the solution’s rather simple..

Font Creation Resources

February 18, 2009| All, Tutorials |

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So you’ve got a great idea for a new font but don’t know where to begin to make it happen? Well Here’s a concise list of Free Programs and Great Articles to get you started.

The Latest And Greatest Interactive Web Series

January 18, 2009| All, Articles |

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With the falling price of recording hardware and the rise of internet communities, so comes the rise of the Interactive Web Series. It has the potential to create truly unique and boundary breaking results. To bring people separated by massive distances and cultural disparity together in creating truly unexpected and diverse results. In my view however, they seem to be falling short of their true potential. Not for lack of enthusiasm or determination, more due to their adherence to the traditions of narrative and lack of experimentation with mixed creative media. This is definitely a trend to watch and anticipate, and if you’re the one who comes up with a truly creative concept, a trend that could propel you into web famedom.

Until then here’s the list of the latest and greatest Interactive Web Series.
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How Modern Tattoo Design Began

December 27, 2008| All, Articles |

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Many things have affected the style of modern tattoo design that we are familiar with today. The tattoo artists Sailor Jerry and Hardy where two major players in sculpting its future and bringing it into popular culture.