This is what I have been working on with the team for the past month. Enjoy.
The Marketing Project is very hush hush at the moment, our group is just waiting for next monday to come around when we will reveal all in the presentation. And what a cracker it will be, looking at the other groups projects, we are in a different league.
Thank you to the idiot that told us the deadline was today, turns out it wasn’t but we finished up last night, so with a week to spare we can sit back and relax.
4 ways to get more colour into your designs. Because this blog lacks it.
1. Color Schemer Studio
This one is my favorite. Full of tools for every situation, this app practically hands nice colours to you on a plate. Pick a colour and the suggested harmonies can show you which colours go together, with a choice of styles like vibrant or minimalistic.
When you are finished making a theme open up the quick preview to see how your colours look together on a simple web page, saving oodles of time messing around in CSS code to get the right ones.
They also have a boat load of ready made themes available to download on their website.
Give it a go, download the demo for Windows or Mac.
2. Kuler
Hot off the press from Adobe Labs comes Kuler, a neat online Flash application for creating and sharing colours.
Handy for making colours on the fly, or when you don’t want the hassle of installing software. Kuler is integrated nicely with the Adobe suite with the ability to import downloaded themes straight into Photoshop.
3. Photography
The lazy mans colour scheme. Sometimes nature knows better than we do, so bring out last years holiday snaps and start grabbing with the pipette tool. If you are out and about and you see a colour you like in the sky or a flower, take a photo and use it in your next web design.
Photo from http://terje.sorgjerd.no/
Places I like to go for photo inspiration include Stock Xchange, Flickr or any old wallpaper site
4. Widgets
Can’t be bothered to put together your own colours? Get someone else to do it for you, and deliver it free of charge every day to your desktop.
Galleria or Color Burn will inspire you with fresh colours to use however you like, and they even show the hex values to take all the hard work out of being lazy.
A little inspiration.
Yes, it’s going to look like this :)
After a couple of weeks creatively avoiding working on my negotiated project, the one I didn’t like, things have taken a turn and ideas are flowing again. Now I do like.
I call it Worn, simply because that word sums up exactly what the project will be. Traditionally webpages are static, every time a page loads a user can expect the same experience. But Worn is different, just by being on the page the user is affecting their experience, and of those who visit after them. Move the mouse, and you leave a faint mark. Scroll down, you make a scratch. Click on a link and you smudge the surface. Bash every key on the keyboard and you leave a dent, but just as soon as you become comfortable interacting you notice there is more. Layer upon layer to be discovered, decaying with time.
It’s an exploration of human-computer interaction, but also bringing a virtual object into the tactile world. To achieve this I will be researching generative and fractal art, to get some sense of naturalness into the object.