July 2008
13 posts
“The most emotionally intense color, red stimulates a faster heartbeat and...”
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“The color of the sky and the ocean, blue is one of the most popular colors. It...”
– http://www.infoplease.com/spot/colors1.html
“Cheerful sunny yellow is an attention getter. While it is considered an...”
– http://www.infoplease.com/spot/colors1.html
Aeroplanes
Planes are amazing in my eyes. I love to watch them as they take off. The best part is, im writing this from seat 10f of a boeing 747. Before I go into my admiration for them, let me explain what this has to do with my design habits: I really want to rebrand an airline. How cool would that be. Making all the images gor the outside of the plane would be imense. So basically if you are a big CEO or...
Egypt
I’m in egypt right now and still haven’t got a solid idea about my dissertation. It’s a pressing matter that is begining to worry me. I expected to see more type but I haven’t. The stuff I have hasn’t been anything to rave about, the only good part is Arabic script but ok in no position to judge as I don’t have the first clue about it. Lots of persian...
Photography
A while back, I think it was in by first year of uni, I had a lecture on photography. It made me really think about photography in a way that has made me change my habits. The tutor said “cameras have become so popular an accessible that we have started to spend our lives behind a lens rather than living life.” I got told this when I was a bit of a myspace kid. Photos were uploaded by...
Meeting At Type.
Well the meeting went well. They loved the huge number of rotating images and a few things came up that we hadn’t thought about. Those are top secret so no previews I’m afraid. I didn’t realise how good their webstats were either. It’s some real traffic figures! The pressure is on though.
On a side note smile will be interviewed and featured on the new site. Sweet.
Had...
Blogging At Type
Bit worried about this one. Caroline obviously blogs for design week so knows about the whole thing and I don’t know what platform she uses. I asked how they wanted to approach posting to it as it’s deep in the hierarchy. I know there is an rss option in the cms but something like Tumblr intergrated via a pipe and posed by a desktop app would give more flexibilty and further options...
My Website
My plan has always been to intergrate this into my site and after the type pipe I know excatly how to do it but it’s all about time. It needs a big push. I don’t have enough time before I go away and that is a shame because I now now where I wanna go with it. I will be using phpwcms. I never thought I’d say it but I acctually like it. And I can see the real potential in using it...
Train Update
I’m on the way to type right now and thinking about the site so far. I’m happy with the steady development but bummed that next week I won’t be able to touch it as I’m on my holidays. I don need the break though. Anyway, this site. I’m happy because I think it’s something that works an with the pipeline I’ve layed (geek joke, cone on) I think the...
iPhone-d Out
To be honest, this has nothing to do with design. It’s more of a test for an iPhone app I downloaded today. If it works, I score another point for productivity. Fingers crossed. Geolocate this post Posted with LifeCast
Sorry
I got rid of importing my twitterfeed into this blog as my infrequent blog posts meant that this basically became a second twitter. Stalk me at www.twitter.com/nathansmonk