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AES Website

Benny — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 21:45:53 +0000

Good day to you readers.

Hey I seem to have left this website out untill now, its the AES website. I have been working with this company for a few years now. They are a friendly and efficient team who deal with our recruitment.

Check out the website which I designed and developed for them a while ago, they also link to job pages for those of you looking for work.

You can vistit the website at www.aesco.co.uk

Have a good day

CAD-MAN-DO Website Design and development

Benny — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 19:32:10 +0000

Ahh, here is another site to add to the ongoing list.

Cad-Man-Do is a site offering both 2d and 3d drawings. I urge you all to have a good browse of the site, it contains lots of there example work and details on how to contact them.

The site is is coded in php and a bit of javascript, it includes a dynamic blog section which allows users to submit their comments.

Enjoy the site everybody.

Visit CAD-MAN-DO at www.cadmando.co.uk

ColorCo Cheltenham

Benny — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:08:49 +0000

Hey there, how ya doing. Great!

Here is a quick post to say that the colorco website is complete, it has been for a while now, but I haven’t got round to updating my blog for quite some time.
The site has been created using the PHP and some javascript to create the homepage slider.
This site has been a colaboration between myself and Simon from the Deltacubed.
Why not have a look through the ColorCo website by clicking here The ColorCo.

Gloucestershire Lifestyles

Benny — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 09:08:13 +0000

Hello readers, welcome again to my blog.
I have recently completed work on the Gloucestershire Lifestyles website, Gloucestershire Lifestyles is a charity based in Gloucestershire they offer care to people with physical and metal health disabilities.
The site has been created using php and connects to a mySQL database which holds all the content. there is a background admin section that provides CMS and the ability to add news and events.
As always Simon from Deltacubed has had a helping hand in getting the site finished.
Please have a look at the site at www.gloslifestyles.co.uk .

Sketch up review

Benny — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 20:49:04 +0000

Hello there good people.

This post is the first of a series of posts that will be looking into the awesome range of open source software out there used in the design community.

I will be starting of by reviewing and giving overviews of two of my favourite applications, Google sketch up and Blender.

Both these application other a wide range of tools for creating 3d models, animations and so much more. If you are new to 3d modeling scene and would like choose an application that is both easy to use and has a large following then sketch up would be a great place to start, so in this first post I give quick summary of sketch up.

Although sketchup is extremely limited when put in comparison to Blender, you will find that its simple palletes and easy to use drawing tools will let you create models extremely quick.

I have found that sketch up excels when it comes to architetural models. You can import PDF’s and CAD files on to a document and use the tape measure tool to create precise guides for planning out your project. Also the fact that model points can snap to other model points and also to guides makes sketch up easy to place models together.

Sketch up may be lacking a render engine but there is a lot of third party support out there and there are several preset styles that come packaged that can effectively present your models.

In summary if you are new to 3d modeling then sketch up is a great starting point, if you where to jump into blender without any knowledge of 3d modeling you will find your self lost very quickly.

Sphere icons

Benny — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 14:52:51 +0000

Once again, I have decided to give you all a treat and offer these sphere icons that I have created using photoshop. Please feel free to use for anything at all.
Enjoy

Click here to download the PSD file

Here have some random illustrator icons

Benny — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 10:36:17 +0000

I’m feeling generous this month, so I have compiled some of the icons that I have created over the last few months for various projects and plonked them on a file for you all to use at your own leisure.
If you would like to find out how to create some of these icons I would be more than happy to do a simple tutorial. If you comment and if there is enough requests I will upload a simple tutorial.
Enjoy

Click here to download the illustrator file

Photoshop Navagation samples

Benny — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 20:12:43 +0000

Hello to you all

In this post I have created a few different basic website navagation panels for you to download and use at your own leisure.
If anyone out there would like the html and css files please comment and I will provide links to these files.

Click here to download the psd file

Concept Buildings with Google Sketch up and Kerkythea

Benny — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 19:15:00 +0000

I work in a marketing department for a Modular Building Company that specialize in Data Centre Facilities and Healthcare Facilities. A big part of our department is writing proposals for prospective clients and providing concept drawings and building plans. I have worked with quite a few 3d modeling packages in the past, mainly high end applications, these are usually expensive and require a certain amount of training.

I have found that Googles sketch up provides a very basic but highly effective solution for creating all types of 3d models and has a great library of open source plug ins and components that can be found on the google sketch up market place.

The only thing lacking in the default version of sketch up is any kind of rendering engine, after looking through many options I finally stumbled upon kerkythea, this is a high quality rendering engine that is very easy to use and works with both Sketch up, Blender and other popular 3d applications.
The model pictured with this article is for concept Data Centre created for the company I work for BladeRoom Data Centre Group
and was rendered up in only 3 hours at a resolution of 4646px wide and 3638px deep.

In the next few weeks I will be working on a quick start tutorial for using sketch up files with Kerkythea.

The BladeRoom Data Centre