Great examples of data visualization..
Data visualization can be an artform in itself. We tend to see bar and pie graphs done in Excel and wordart when we go to work and sit in stuffy meetings. But when designers bring it all together, beautiful things can come about. Web Designer Depot showcases 50 great examples of mind blowing data visualization.
http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/06/50-great-examples-of-data-visualization/
Photoshop turns 20 years old
Next week Photoshop turns 20 years old. Every designer who has ever called themselves a designer has used the old lasso tool along with other personal favorites. On Feb 10th let’s blow out some candles for the old workhorse. Web Designers Depot has a great write up of the history of Photoshop here. It’s a must read.
http://m.webdesignerdepot.com/2010/02/20-years-of-adobe-photoshop/
Doodles from the last couple of days..
Doodles of the day…
Animoto – cheap fun videos of your stuff
Anitmoto.com has created a service that allows for users to quickly upload a series of images which it them makes a decent little movie out of with a soundtrack of your choice. the interface is very simple and very clean. I created this on the animoto iphone app in few minutes.
Great nex gen pc interface
Great video courtesy of Clayton Miller . http://10gui.com/
Cool little app to create art
This cool little app tracks your mouse movements over a period of time and create an image such as this. This is 5 hours of work for me.
Gallery here. http://www.flickr.com/photos/anatoliy_zenkov/4271592658/
download it here http://dl.dropbox.com/u/684632/mousepath.exe.zip
CS4 over Sketchbook Pro?
We have had Photoshop CS4 running in the studio for a couple of months now. I have to say I have not seen a need to open up sketchbook pro since. Adobe Photoshop CS4 has made dramatic improvements to it’s tablet sketching sensitivity in this release. It still is not as good as Sketchbook Pro, but just the fact that you have all those tools sitting there in the same interface does it for me. The sketchbook Pro’s interface is revolutionary and seamless but Phototshop has tons of goodies that we all know about and love and that little difference in tablet sensitivity is just not enough for me to go back to sketchbook.








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