Little Big Planet with love!

If you like design and creative play then LBP is for you, exclusively developed for the Playstation 3 this is an awesome game and i've enjoyed hours of fun and laughs with my kids.

Why not check out this awesome game:

http://www.littlebigplanet.com

CS4 Finally Arrived!

We'll finally got the most expensive piece of software i have ever purchased delivered! I must say it runs pretty damn good on the new imacs. 

Took me a while to get used to the new layout, but I'm really loving the new tween features on Flash, it's so much easier to do animations etc. I couldn't stick with the time line at the bottom though so i put that back at the top.

Overall I'm really pleased with it and can't wait to try some new stuff out, when i can get a spare minute from working. Was it worth £1,500? mmm,probably not but in my business i have to have the latest software, i just wish Adobe would re-think it's pricing policy here in the UK..

Adobe Creative Suite CS4

We'll it's almost upon us, CS4 will be release this October and yes I've pre-ordered it £1,500 though! jesus that's allot of money for a box with 6-7 discs :( I wish Adobe would price it more fairly here in the UK compared to USA, i mean common! We end up paying nearly double than our cousins over the pond..

I think this is the one that will really run great on my new Mac, i must also say that the new features on Flash CS4 look awesome and can't wait to see what cool stuff i can do..

Check CS4 out here: Link

Photography flash website

Door 15 has been building flash websites for over 4 years. If your looking for a high quality flash website for your photography portfolio, look no further than door 15 design studio.

Many features can include an xml dynamic gallery, full screen flash, client login, and even a custom uploading feature so you don't have to use ftp to upload your photographs, just browse and click to upload straight away on the fly.

If your interested in a bespoke photography flash site thats unique to you, feel free to contact me for a quotation.

Your photos are unique, why should your portfolio be any different!

Dynamic XML flash image zoomer

Door 15 has created a flash dynamic gallery zoomer for free non commercial use, why not go and take a look. Feel free to download and give it a try, for commercial use, please contact me.

Flash Image gallery zoomer

Wow a Robot Band!

Looking to book a band? We'll maybe you might want to consider an automated robot band! Take a look at this, they have a guitarist, drummer, keyboard and i think a singer in there somewhere too!

They sound pretty good, a pretty nice video check it out.

link: The Trons

The Amazing Climbing robot!

I always find robot technology interesting, especially seeing it evolve. Will we ever see AI or robot servants? Who knows! 

I came across this amazing piece of video today and thought i would share it with you guys.

Maybe not a robot servant but boy it's cool, this thing can climb up walls! Not even any wires or anything, looks battery controlled, how that weight stays on the wall is pretty impressive. check it out: Wall Walking Robot

My Love of fonts! (Typography)

Fonts can make or break a design and typography is an art in itself, this is why it's important to know the best places to find great fonts. Even more importantly free great fonts are even better! 

If your looking for a great place to find beautiful fonts for your work, i always visit ilovetypography it's a great place to see what's new in the font designing world.

link: ilovetypography

An Alternative to Lightbox and Lightbox 2

Lightbox is a great tool for having nice image smooth progressions, but i came across another nice piece of javascript zooming code for website images. It's called FancyZoom and rather reminds me of a the mac close window function.

I use it allot here at Door 15 Design Studio, especially when I'm doing some Freelance Graphic design or Freelance web design projects.

You can find this nice pice of Javascript here along with some examples.

Check it out!: FancyZoom

Even cooler things you can do with a Wii remote!

Came across this really clever guy called Johnny Chung Lee who has managed to turn a regular Wii remote into an interactive whiteboard with the aid of a regular projector.

So what i hear you say! We'll check this video out and see what else you can do with this technology, as a techno geek i found this very fascinating!

Check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s5EvhHy7eQ

Choosing the right colours for your designs

Choosing the right colour scheme for your designs can be difficult and time consuming getting it right. I found this nifty little application to set your colour schemes easily and quickly and also giving you the ability to save them on the fly and come back to them. 

This is great for freelancer graphic designers like myself at Door 15 Design Studio.

Check out this nifty application here: http://www.colorschemer.com/

It's not free, but still worth a purchase!

Top tools for Graphic Designers

I was browsing the internet as you do and came across a nice little app for graphic designers to create stripes for backgrounds. It's very easy to use and you can export your photoshop patterns as .png's and even share them with others on the same site.

It's not going to set the world alight! But it saves allot of time. ;)

Check t out here: http://www.stripegenerator.com/

Embedding my blog in my HTML site

After 12 hours of pulling my hair out and coding for god knows how long I finally managed to get the blog embedded successfully in my HTML code.

For those that may be interested I found a great RSS parser in the form of  SimplePie, it has far more flexability than RSS.php or lastRSS.php and also has support for Atom feeds.

You can find it here: http://simplepie.org/

Thanks to them for developing such a great RSS parser.

New Html website launched

Well at long last I've made the jump to HTML along with my flash site. Hopefully this will give my Freelancing more visibility!

Many thanks to my friend Chris for all his hard work and support while doing this project.

Ta Mate.