Freelance Flash & Graphic Design, Leicester, Derby, Nottingham

First Wave Associates launched.

noreply@blogger.com (Door 15 Design Studio) — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:40:00 +0000

Door 15 has been in partnership with First Wave Associates a brand new driving school launched in Loughborough. FWA caters for driving tuition in Shepshed, Loughborough, Leicester and the surrounding Midlands.

Door 15 Supplied the design work, Flash animations and also the hosting service for FWA. If your interested in driving lessons, driving tuition or joining a driving school in Shepshed, Loughborough or Leicestershire check them out.

Driving school at First Wave Associates for Leicester http://www.firstwaveassociates.co.uk

Flipbook 2.0 coming soon.

noreply@blogger.com (Door 15 Design Studio) — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:23:00 +0000

Door 15 supplies interactive flipbooks to many clients around the UK, but i have been working on a new and improved version with more features including built in movie player, index scrolling, double width canvas drop down and improved bitmap smoothing.

Expect more information to be given out in the coming weeks.

New amends to the main site

noreply@blogger.com (Door 15 Design Studio) — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:20:00 +0000

I've made some tweaks to the main site, namely a new dynamic flash promotion section at the top to replace the popular one i used to have. This new one is more intelligent and is easier to add to when i need to so expect some more pieces to be added soon.

I've also changed the style very slightly, which i think looks better. I get some nice feedback from people about the site, but if you'd like to suggest anything feel free to drop me a line.

Busy Busy, Portfolio update

noreply@blogger.com (Door 15 Design Studio) — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:46:00 +0000

I've managed to get away from client projects to update my portfolio with a couple of concept designs. More updates will follow over the weekend so be sure to check back if your interested in what I'm up to.

Sadly i've been working on some amazing projects but can't post details argh! NDA's! I'll try to get some more projects on my portfolio at the weekend.

Bye for now...

Flash interactive cd-rom's for windows & macintosh

noreply@blogger.com (Door 15 Design Studio) — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 12:40:00 +0000

Door 15 has been developing interactive cd-roms for some time, but i have now expanded my development tools to run on Windows and Macintosh using the new Zinc 3.0 tools. This gives me so much more flexibilty and power over operating commands and hence i can now develop really nice looking cd apps.

If your looking for a custom cd-rom application why not drop me a line for a quotation.

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

noreply@blogger.com (Door 15 Design Studio) — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 12:30:00 +0000

Well back to work i suppose.....

After all the fat foods and beer it's time to get back to it i guess. I would like to wish everyone one a Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year of course! Door 15 has been hard at work as usual developing and designing, in-fact i have been building some very exciting projects and I'm please to announce i will be offering some extra services in the coming months.

I've been using TweenLite allot lately and has proved itself to be a very powerful tween class, so i would recommend anybody into flash to give it a try.

Little Big Planet with love!

noreply@blogger.com (Door 15 Design Studio) — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:25:00 +0000

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!

noreply@blogger.com (Door 15 Design Studio) — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:45:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Door 15 Design Studio) — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 14:02:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Door 15 Design Studio) — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:48:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Door 15 Design Studio) — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 10:13:00 +0000

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!

noreply@blogger.com (Door 15 Design Studio) — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:48:00 +0000

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!

noreply@blogger.com (Door 15 Design Studio) — Sat, 24 May 2008 07:50:00 +0000

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)

noreply@blogger.com (Door 15 Design Studio) — Fri, 23 May 2008 09:11:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Door 15 Design Studio) — Thu, 22 May 2008 12:00:00 +0000

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!

noreply@blogger.com (Door 15 Design Studio) — Wed, 21 May 2008 13:26:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Door 15 Design Studio) — Wed, 21 May 2008 07:10:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Door 15 Design Studio) — Wed, 21 May 2008 07:06:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Door 15 Design Studio) — Sun, 18 May 2008 13:32:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (Door 15 Design Studio) — Sun, 18 May 2008 13:30:00 +0000

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.