Some sketches from the last couple of days.  Drills, equipment, screwdrivers. Just doodling..

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/

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/

Some sketches I did in the last couple of days. Lighting objects and flashlights and maybe a robot?

Some quick sketches I did today of some retro headphones. Just form development really.

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 video courtesy of Clayton Miller . http://10gui.com/

10/GUI from C. Miller on Vimeo.

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

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.

Found this great ID drawing book at the art store the other day. Very current and up to date information on sketching and how these techniques integrate with 3d modeling.