Sound of Design is the work of Ty Lettau, the Adobe Design Manager responsible for all the UI things you love or hate. Really great work all around and very refreshingly different from the everyday post you see around the community. Hats off to Ty for keeping it, well, you know.
Yo! This is sooo good. Rob Meek is doing great things for all of us in the form of FontStruct, a DIY font creator… the latest product by Font Shop. If you’re any type of true creative, you have an appreciation for originality and typography. Welcome to the best of both worlds. Spread the word! Via WSDIA
rsizr allows you to intelligently resize images directly in your browser. The algorithm used is based on the incredible image resizing technique called Seam Carving for Content-Aware Image Resizing developed by Shai Avidan and Ariel Shamir. Try rsizr. It’s amazing!
Those crazy guys at the MIT Lab are at it again. “Based on a dynamic, interactive OpenGL-based scripting engine, E15 exposes an entirely new face to web content, freely modifiable by each individual user.” We can’t wait to get our hands on this!
It’s not too late to submit your entry for the Adobe Photoshop “See What’s Possible” contest, where you have the chance to win $20,000 plus the latest Creative Suite. Click Here for details.
Do you freelance? If so, you might find Tick to be very useful for tracking your time and staying on budget. If you’re curious to take this for a spin, the key features included in the FREE single project account are:
Big Spaceship was recently profiled on Apple Pro. Great article that gives more insight into how BSS works and their take on technology and having fun.
Pictobrowser allows you to create photo galleries with your Flickr photos that you can then embed on a page anywhere. We tried it out and created the photo gallery above with photos from our attendance at the Future of Web Design conference in New York last November. We are impressed with Pictobrowser’s customization features. Creating the photo gallery above took us only 23 seconds (yes, we timed it). It’s that easy!
Romanian artist Alex Dragulescu’s projects are experiments and explorations of algorithms, computational models, simulations and information visualizations that involve data derived from databases, spam emails, blogs and video game assets. Basically, Alex brings malicious code and spam to life. Amazing!
