Cool Orange Fifa 2010 Football shirt!

juni 7th, 2010

Footballshirt-orange

As we are heading for the World Cup 2010 the fever is getting higher and higher. Hereby one of the better concepts, besides the orange dress. Which I think is great!

Our solar sytem build entirely into CSS3

mei 19th, 2010

Slarsytem build in css3

Very nicely made. Our solar system build in CSS3 using border-radius, transform and animations. currently only working in Safari and Chrome as they support these properties.

Thnx WNAS!

Super! Rebuild your TV with Wii remote to 3D TV

mei 18th, 2010

This is really awesome. 3D TV, Augmented reality we’re really on the verge of a break through in 3D virtual reality.

Thnx MM!

LEGO augmented reality, cool!

mei 16th, 2010

Wow! Augmented reality is finding it’s way into our ordinairy live. Watch how this guy can see what’s in the box.

Thnx MvD!

Fontstruct applicable? Dingemans Architecture designed this tile wall with it

mei 15th, 2010

tegels-tunnelwand-Hengelo Dingemans Architectuur

Jeroen architect at Dingemans architectuur is a co-worker friend who is working at our office was working on a tile wall for the station in Hengelo. The station is a central point of departure for trains into Europe and to local places. He told me his concept to design lines along which all the different Capitals of Europe would be placed in names, kinda like a Metromap.

So, I pointed out that he could do this very easy with Fontstruct, a program whitch I had been working with for a while. It worked out great, it’s easy and fast to get a font out, better then having to draw and copy past every block in the right place with Illustrator or Coreldraw.

More images overhere: Tile wall Dingemans Architecture

I am now officially a frontend hero!

mei 14th, 2010

As off this week I officially joined frontend-heroes.
Frontend-HEROES is the loose collaboration of frontend developers working individually or together on bigger interface projects.

I myself was introduced by my friend Wilfred to join up on a project for Agis in 2006. I was then a good designer, but no-good frontend developer. Working with (crappy, I didn’t know yet) WYSIWYG tools like GoLive and Dreamweaver. Wilfred helped me into W3C, semantic and good HTML CSS coding. It opened my eyes and made me in 4 years the better and happier frontend, user-interface and interaction designer I am today!

Today we are still exploring the fronteers on good semantic coding. We are passionate about our work, we develop better things for a better cause. We like working opensource to share our things with the rest of the world.

Here here! for frontend-heroes

Thnx guys πŸ™‚

Great presentation on what drives people to do better things

mei 14th, 2010

Open standards and freetime autonomy projects work!
Wow this really hooks on to my previous post. Spending freetime on Fontstruct types is motivating, gives me satisfaction and leads to better results. And offcourse I give it away for free.

Klonk Narrow – Fontstruct typedesign version 2

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! πŸ™‚

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

Building typefaces gets easy with fontstruct

mei 11th, 2010

Fontstruct-font

In the early days of my existence as a graphic designer, the 90ies. I was working a lot with industrial types and monospaced block fonts doing a lot of techno label and flyer designs. At that time a had to build and shuffle a lot with illustrator to get everything worked out and in place.

Today it has become a lot easier!
Thanks to Fontstruct by Fontshop. For example I took 2 fonttypes of Atelier RenΓ© Knip and Gruyterfabriek. If you look at them, the’re almost the same.

font-1

This is a block kind of type, so we can use fontstruct to build it. Fontstruct has a Lego kind of library with buildingblocks great quickly build fonttypes like these. The only thing you need to do is sign up, build your font on a square grid, like this:
fontstruct
Click download and you are ready to go! The download button renders a ttf file you can use as a real font. Great isn’t it?
All your favorite monotype block fonts made in a minute. It took me about 4 hours this weekend to build.

Okay it doesn’t support the big round corners. But I’ve got the ttf. Open it in a proper fontddesign program and you can add the nice round corners of the C or G to get it right. A kid can do the laundry, as we say in Dutch.

Feel free to use it and try it out.
Download the font overhere: klonk.zip

Open standards not only for web! πŸ™‚

Opera joins in on the discussion Flash vs Apple

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!