Creating an iPhone interface in Flex 3

February 22nd, 2009

As part of my recent design work I have been able to get involved in some Flex development and went on a course to explore it a bit further. I have used Flash for a while but not regualry so jumped at the chance to learn more about what Flex can do. read more »

My Top 20 hip-hop albums of all time

January 8th, 2009

I have been meaning to write this post for ages, the first half has even been stuck in my draft box for the past three weeks, so here it is, my top 20 hip-albums of all time. Picking 20 has really forced me to nail down the top albums that have shaped my Hip-hop listening over the last 12 years. So without any further ado here you go, some will be obvious, you'd probably see them in every top 20 but maybe there are a few surprises in here read more »

Photo montage with Safari/Chrome/Webkit, JQuery and Flickr…

November 15th, 2008

This only works in Safari and Chrome There is no doubting how powerful Webkit is, some of the new CSS selectors it provides make it a breeze to do certain things that would have normally required a sea of div's, javascript or Flash to make them work. read more »

Writing multiple toggle links in JQuery

October 18th, 2008

I was just working with this so thought I would write and quick a quick blog post about it. It was covered a bit on http://www.learningjquery.com/2006/09/slicker-show-and-hide but hidden in the comments so I though I would bring it out for all to see. Thanks to Scott for the original explanation. read more »

A slow start to the new season – improvements are needed

August 30th, 2008

Well I wouldn't say it's been a great start to the season, but them again we have not lost, which is always a good sign when you are playing badly and still winning. I still think the team is lacking in certain areas even though we seem to have what is considered a very rounded squad. The team has been playing with no width in the first three games, everything going through the central areas and for this reason we have looked very static. There is no support for the front two and Keane has not looked like he was even playing. read more »

Creating a font – Part two

August 13th, 2008

This follows on from my original post detailing the original sketches and tracing in illustrator. Now I have the capital letters for this font set up I need to calculate the cap height, x-height, ascender and descender. As I am only doing the caps for this release that makes life a bit easier but I will still calculate the other heights for when I finish the rest of the font collection. read more »

Creating a font for my new (monthly logo)

August 10th, 2008

My weekly logo iterations have been a bit slow due to being away and some busy weeks so they have almost turned into a monthly affair which is a shame. Maybe weekly logos was a bit pushing it. Anyway for this logo I decided in a moment of madness yesterday morning that I would create my own typeface with no consideration for how long it would take. It has know turned into a lot bigger project than I imagined but has been a great learning curve so I thought I would write about it so anyone reading could get some benefit from it. read more »

Weekly logo added – homage to one of my favourite design houses

July 20th, 2008

So for my new logo this week I decided to do something a little different and pay homage to one of my favourite design houses who have their roots in street based graffiti design. read more »

New features added to site – Iphone compatible, Brightkite plugin, new weekly logo

July 20th, 2008

I have had a busy couple of days getting some new bits ready for this site and learning a lot in the process. The main bulk of work has gone into getting the site Iphone compatible, choosing to keep this to just the blog at the moment I will open up the other areas once I can get the loading times down concerning the images. I have added a bunch of resources at the bottom of this post that I used. read more »

New kicks arrived

July 20th, 2008

Some of you may know but most won't that I am a complete trainer freak! I have been collecting trainers since I was 18, originally starting when I was playing a lot of basketball... read more »