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Klonk Narrow – Fontstruct typedesign version 2

woensdag, mei 12th, 2010

Klonk-Narrow

Update on Klonk typeface:
After looking at it posting this article (actually my first review). I thought Klonk V1 was a bit to wide in comparison to the Knip and Gruytefabriek type. I made a new version called Klonk-Narrow.

Download the font overhere: klonk.zip
Download over here at Fontstruct: Klonk-Narrow
Thnx for the tip Aphoria! ๐Ÿ™‚

Fontstruct team also made it a Top pick on the Fontstruct site. I’m very proud and gratefull, thnx Afrojet!

Opera joins in on the discussion Flash vs Apple

donderdag, mei 6th, 2010

Opera definitely feels that both technologies have there own role in webdevelopment. But overall web developement will benefit from open web standards.
I agree!

Read here,via WNAS: WNAS

Thnx WNAS!

Now Adobe also is going to build the best HTML5 tool?

donderdag, mei 6th, 2010

Okay, here is another post on Adobe, besides Flash they will build the best HTML5 tool.. why and how? HTML5 coding is easy and very handy. I’m very curious as every WYSIWYG tool I’ve tried creates large piles of garbage code!
Article

Adobe vs Apple continues

donderdag, mei 6th, 2010

You could wait on the reaction.
Here’s what Adobe says onmacrumors.

News on Apple vs Adobe

donderdag, april 29th, 2010

Words on Flash by Steve Jobs

As a Frontend developer of HTML5 and css3 a lot now a days, I can agree. Only making animations (cartoon like) is more easy to make with Flash. ‘Why can’t they all get along?’

Words on typography and usability on the iPad

woensdag, april 21st, 2010

Typographers are not enthousiast about the lack of good font support on the iPad.

What the iPad is Missing (No, itโ€™s not a Camera) By Fontshop

Never the less, as interaction designer myself I do embrace the use of web applications. Why? Is iBook important? No! It’s not useful at all. Publishers should come out of there cubicles and explore the best way to present digital media: THE WEB!!! We are allready helping you a decade, developping better ways of presentation for digital media. It’s opensource and userfriendly.. Don’t miss the boat!

Nice article by ‘Guru’ Zeldman on developping for iPad (eo):

http://www.zeldman.com/category/usability/

Here you can generate your font code for web, all browsers:

http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface

New iPhone or mock-up?

dinsdag, april 20th, 2010

Rumors are all about, is this the new iPhone that Gizmodo is showing us?
I wouldn’t believe it at first, because it looked so small, I even thought it could be an iPhone mini.
After checking out the pictures at Macrumors I am a little more convinced. Also the letter in which Apple requests it’s device back looks very authentic. Or isn’t it ??

This would be the first time an Apple product is uncovered way before the launch.
I’m really not convinced, maybe it’s a hoax from Apple itself trying to throw sand in our eyes and getting more attention and brand value without any product or launch-date even near.
Than Apple is allready again, for the second year in a row: Selling Air Champion 2010

If it isn’t I wonder if Apple would have a plan ‘B’. I can see panic in the eyes of developers, designers, technisians, CEO’s running around like mad cows in cupertino. Can cowboy Steve cope with this loose hurdle of stack? And even worse: the suspicians… who fell for the mighty dollar. Rumors say that someone was offered 5000 Dollar at the corner of a Starbucks.. the favorite hangout of another Steve, Steve B. A big guy they say, he looks a bit sweaty and they here him coming from miles away. Co-workers and friends like to call him the white gorilla, when he enters the room, everybody is quiet and stares with fear in there eyes at the doorpost as he yells: ‘I LOVE THIS COMPANY! WHOOHA! Now gimmy a Lathe Machiato to go’..

That mornin it all went wrong. A young developer, best of his class, about 17 years old, brought in, personally by Steve J., from a small village in the Midwest, lacking any social skills and anticipation was invited by an old college friend to drink some coffee at the nearby Starbucks.

He had always been the nerd, every kid.. no even the teachers, bullied him around. It was time to get back at everyone. This was his momento. He took out of his pocket the most valuable artefact of modern time and showed it to his friend. He looked stunned stood there with white opened eyes looking at this juwel of industrial design.

He began to stutter, but nothing came out of his mouth.
Our nerdy friend laughed, he was now the centre of the universe, a God in everyones eyes. Than he felled a tap on his shoulder. He looked back and stared in the glancing eyes of the white Gorilla. In all his excitement he hadn’t heard hom come in. His friend who seemed staring because of the revelation in his hand, had been staring to the door, watching Steve B. making his usual entrance.
He tried to warn his friend, but the entrance made such an impact, he could only stumble some sounds.

‘What do we have here?’
‘Uhm, it’s an Android..’
‘With an Apple logo? Haaahahahahahaa!’ Steve interrupted.
‘No my little friend, it is, almost certainly the next iPhone, hmm’
‘I’ll give you 4000,- for it!’
‘..uh, it’s not for sale’
‘WHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA’ Steve laught almost choking in it.
‘Okay I’ll give you 5000,-.’
Steve B. pulled the dollars out of his pocked.
Our friend knew he wasn’t going to get away with it.
He was almost shrunk beneith the table they were sitting at, and had no choise.
The new iPhone was out in the world, he had lost it, having nothing, having to face disgrase again.

A this moment it is circulating in the hands of Gizmodo.
How this story ends?
And the boy, will it ever come out?
Will he ever fall into grace again, with his Padre?
We will know this summer.
We’ll keep you posted.

G

Flyfire 3D LED screen project with mini helicopters

zondag, februari 21st, 2010

Will this be the new 3D imaging method? Read more about it at Flyfire.