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Jul 14
New Copyleft cards
These are yet to be printed, but I'm hoping I can get it done with letterpress, having the grey as an inkless impression. Does anyone know of a printer that does letterpress in Norway?
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Jul 10
Best vacaction message ever
A lot of my clients are on vacation now and it's common in Norway to set up a vacation message. Most are very dull and boring, but today I got a nice one back from Felipe at Mediafront:
vacation |vāˈkā sh ən; və-|
noun
1 an extended period of recreation, esp. one spent away from home or in traveling : he took a vacation in the south of France | people come here on vacation [as adj. ] a vacation home.
• a fixed holiday period between terms in schools and law courts.
2 the action of leaving something one previously occupied : his marriage was the reason for the vacation of his fellowship.
verb [ intrans. ]
take a vacation : I was vacationing in Europe with my family.
DERIVATIVES
vacationer |veɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)nər| |vəˈkeɪʃ(ə)nər| noun
vacationist |-ist| |veɪˈkeɪʃənəst| |vəˈkeɪʃənəst| noun
ORIGIN late Middle English : from Old French, or from Latin vacatio(n-), from vacare ‘be unoccupied’ (see vacate ).
Anyone alse seen a good one?
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Jul 6
Diego in the forest x2
Cute panoramic picture my wife took and I put together.
Howto in Photoshop:
- Cross process with "Curves", pump up green and red highlights, drop the shadows down a little, then do the inverse with blue.
- Add a layer with "Neon edge" filter, using bright green. Then overlay it and make it about 30% transparent.
- Add a layer with some gausian blur and overlay it as well.
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Jun 30
Speed design - Guerra Jr.
We're doing a redesign of the website for a rally driver from Mexico called Benito Guerra Jr.
I started by talking to Jadiel who is bringing in the project. He showed me the old site to have an idea of the content. Then I went on an rampage of looking at websites linked from my favorite design blogs: PSDTuts, Smashing Magazine, and Abduzeedo. I screenshoted elements I liked and did a quick sketch of the layout on paper. For the colors I used Kuler, an Adobe project that lets you either create a palette from scratch, search for popular palettes and also upload an image and pick colors from it. I upload a picture of the front of the drivers last car. Then it was off to Photoshop, setting up a typical 8px based grid and did a quick mockup, which I like a lot.
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Jun 30
Evolution of a design - Teks
I'm redoing the site for Teks.no, a center for electronic art. The style is pretty far from what I'd normally do and it's quite dificult to adapt to such a dark palette and so much content. I find it interesting to see how the design changes as the project goes forward. When I look at the current mockup and compare it to the first one I wonder what the hell I was thinking on the first draft.
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Jun 29
WAYD logo
WAYD is a Twitterish system developed by our friends in Teknograd. I'm still a little unsure of exactly how it works, but it seems to be a more intelligent version of twitter, based on opesource code. I did a quick logo mockup for the iPhone version of it. Maybe I'll get to make a "fail whale" later.
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Jun 26
Michael Jackson ringtones
In memory of the 80s, when I sometimes wore a glove on one hand and moonwalked on the carpet of my parent's house I'm switching from my MMMBop ringtone to Billie Jean today.
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Jun 18
Leo Utskot has a Bacon number of 2.
I you don't know XKCD, don't bother. Todays strip is brilliant, no just because of the humor involved, but because my lack of knowledge about famous mathematicians led me down a wonderful wikipedia rabitthole (Paul Erdös > Erdös Number > Kevin Bacon number > Oracle of Bacon). My day has gotten considerably better with the knowledge that I have a Kevin Bacon number of 2.
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Jun 17
Blog URL moved
My blog has moved to blog.utskot.org, sorry for the mess. More details soon.Comments [0]
