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David-Jenkins.co.uk

Posted by James - 20/05/07 at 05:05:26 pm

David Jenkins was on my Interactive Media Design course at Uni. He specialises in websites (as opposed to me specialising in Flash) and also has a passion for 3D Modelling. His website hasn’t been updated for a while, and I haven’t spoken to him for ages now, so I’m not even sure what he’s up too!

Adobe CS3 Icons

Posted by James - 18/05/07 at 07:05:58 am

It’s so hard to find useful resources for Icons on the web. Especially product icons. If you’ve ever tried putting together a design, one that requires product attribution, you’ll know what I mean. Far as I’m concerned, companies should start including things like hi-res pngs of their icons with the product. C’mon, don’t make me Google ‘Adobe CS3 Product Icons’ just to get a decent (i.e. full transparency & larger than 32×32pixels) logo.

Regardless, I found a cool set of these Icons the other day, thanks to koregraphik. The icons aren’t exact rips of the ‘real’ icons, but they’re very close. (Scaled down to 32×32 the rounded corners are neglible, and actually make the icon look smoother) They look sweet at full scale, and that’s good enough for me.

Keeping your finger on the pulse with Smashing Magazine

Posted by James - 16/05/07 at 11:05:51 pm

Smashing magazine (’we smash you with the information, which will make your life easier. really.’) is one of those pseudo-blogs, regurgitating content from other sites as a method of generating traffic. Well, at least that’s what I assume. Behind the ads* there’s a wealth of decent resources, and it’s updated at a furious rate. For example, there seems to be 100 links+ in each of their ‘Best of Month‘ articles. (and with that many links, there’s gotta be something good)

They don’t obviously write all this content, but seem to read and research everything that’s going on through digg, digital web and the like, and then prepare and serve it up in healthy doses every week (or more).

Head on over there, read their past articles and sign up to their RSS. You’ll thank me later on.

* remind me to do a post on how to remove them sometime…

Secret Weapon 1 : Kuler

Posted by James - 15/05/07 at 10:05:15 pm

Print Designers have it easy, you know. They get things like Pantone Books, and well, things like that. Time to even the score? I think so, and obviously so does Adobe.

Until recently, I’d touted ColorJack as the best place to gen-up on colour theory and match colours, and it’s still pretty good. But Kuler, from Adobe Labs, is awesome for matching up colour schemes. Even better than that, you can save your schemes and share them with others. If you’re stuck for inspiration, take it from someone else’s scheme. If you need a good match, you can use Kuler’s tools to pick a theoretical partner.

Go ahead, check it out.

New theme…

Posted by James - 08/05/07 at 06:05:00 pm

Ok, so I was planning to make my own. But Smashing Magazine undermined my enthusiasm for the work involved, with their latest article showing off a new theme. So I’m using it, and I think its rather lovely…