Designvelopment is a term I use to describe how I'm switching constantly between a sketchbook, code, and pixels, blurring the line between creative and logical thinking. This site is meant to be an outlet for my thoughts as an interactive designer and developer, as well as a resource for others in this field.
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Here is a phenomenal use of Flash video. Saab has created their Animal Vision minisite, where the visitor must find the elusive lynx, while viewing stunning video of the Saab 9-5 Sedan and SportCombi parked in the middle of a haunting forest. It took me a while to figure out how they pulled this one off.
Introducing Matthew Leake, scratchboard artist supreme.
Buro Vormkrijgers is a wonderfully inventive furniture and lighting design studio. Makers of the genius Pong Clock, these guys have some truly fantastic objects in their portfolio. I think it’s time to redecorate.
If you’re a web designer like me, you often want to preview what your site looks like at different sizes. Nicholas Roussos has provided a set of browser resize links that will automatically set your window to a popular screen size. Save these as a bookmark and you’ll always be able to quickly check your designs at different screen sizes.
Tonight, at Leo Koenig in Chelsea, the Vienna-based collective Gelitin has built a large wooden box with two extensions, one like a cabinet and one like a top-loading chest. Viewers can place any object into the chestlike extension, close the hatch, and wait while their object is hand-replicated and returned after an indefinite amount of time. Read the New York Times article.
Well, now I know what I’ll be doing over the holidays: browsing through every single link at The Favourite Website Awards.
Patryk Rebisz shot his short film Between You and Me entirely with a still camera. Beautiful.
Now here’s a great way to go about your holiday shopping. Try out Borders Gifts new Flash shopping guide. This is really well done, fun and simple to use, and is a great example of how Flash should be used online.
In yet another beta launch, Google has created Google Base, a place where users can post any type of information and Google will host it and make searchable. This is an interesting take on publishing – somewhat of a cross between About.com, Wikipedia, and del.icio.us.
Chris Kohler is running the Game|Life blog over at Wired. The articles are really comprehensive, and I absolutely love his topic title “Game|Death”.
