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Leading by Design: Q&A with The Boston Globe’s Miranda Mulligan

Ched — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:37:08 +0000

Sparksheet just did a Q&A with Boston Globe’s Digital Design Director, Miranda Mulligan. She talks about responsive design and the nuances of print vs. web, but most insightfully, she points out the qualities of web designers. The work of the web designer goes well beyond pixel-pushing beautification and rare is the project that has no [...]

Another CHEDONLINE Project: Helveticurse

Ched — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 12:17:44 +0000

So I made another little digital invention. It’s called Helveticurse, and it’s an exploration of a glossary-type website that contrasts the neutrality of Helvetica with the offensiveness of some english curse words. Related content is pulled from Google, Wikipedia and Twitter. Check out the twitter feed for some of the more offensive words and you’ll [...]

Super-Stylish Animation: Giant Women and P-51 Mustang WW2 Fighter Planes

Ched — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:04:29 +0000

This style works really well and I love the transforming typography parts. A psychedelic Yellow Submarine turned American Apparel ad soaked in technicolor awesomeness. Produced by Nitrocorpz. Song is “My Favorite Way” by Black Drawing Chalks

Amazing Stop-Motion: Manipulating Paper With Telekinesis

Ched — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:30:22 +0000

Love this: so simple and perfect. I’m a sucker for this stop-motion stuff, especially when it’s done with paper. Also, this beat is pretty hard.

Activating Jeopardy! Beast Mode: Two True Daily Doubles in a Row

Ched — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 16:41:17 +0000

Roger Craig holds the record for single match: $77,000. The ‘skunking’ of Jeopardy! is to at least double the score of 2nd place before entering Final Jeopardy, so you can bet the difference without losing. To do that means you control the daily doubles, and then bet aggressively. This guy did it by making a [...]

My Definition of Design: Making Something Useful to Humans

Ched — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 16:01:25 +0000

Over the years, the boundaries of design are something that I’ve had to sell to my colleagues time and time again, since through blind semantics, its definition is something that often changes with context and industry. Worst of all, sometimes it gets minimized to “making things pretty” by applying visual style to something, but it’s [...]

You know how we do it: Ice Cube on the Eames’ Design

Ched — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 20:39:55 +0000

Legendary mogul Ice Cube talks about his love for American designers Charles and Ray Eames. Looks like it was a good day.

Painting in Motion: Barcelona vs Real Madrid

Ched — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:48:28 +0000

I love the abstractions of the faces and movement, especially when zoomed in and out. By Richard Swarbrick for Hotspur and Argyle

Sonar: Music to Loading Reticles

Ched — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:53:01 +0000

Hypnotising animations. This would make for a nice visualisation, like “The Music of Twitter” with all the tweets producing different tones and shapes.

Typography Animation: Pollution Never Looked This Good

Ched — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:00:26 +0000

Watch as the tale of industrial growth and its effect on the environment is told through the use of type. By Olivier Beaudoin. The song is Nostrand by Ratatat.

When Responsive Design Meets Online Advertising

Ched — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 20:54:20 +0000

Here’s an interesting topic from Mark Boulton. Now that we (hopefully) accept that content online should take the form of the user’s device, what does it mean for advertising? Talking to my colleagues in media sales, it’s obvious that advertisers would love the idea of a responsive ad spot. I mean, no one wants their [...]

How to eat sushi in Japan

Ched — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:13:41 +0000

If you love sushi (and who doesn’t?), then you’ll get a kick out of this satirical take on the culture surrounding it.

The Rap Board: Fun Hip Hop Soundboard

Ched — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 05:30:59 +0000

YECCCHHH!!! This is fun collection of rapper adlibs. I’d like to see one with dancehall artists. therapboard.com

Q&A with BostonGlobe.com’s Design and Dev Firms

Ched — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 20:59:45 +0000

These days, I’m all about the responsive web design. Check out my latest two responsive sites, sparksheet.com and apex.sparksheet.com. Just this week, the Boston Globe‘s fresh redesign was launched, led by Ethan Marcotte, who coined the term and wrote an awesome book about it. As far as I know, this newspaper site is the biggest [...]

Minimalist Guess Who of Famous People

Ched — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:15:30 +0000

These illustrations go from clever to creepy and back again. They’re from the book Guess Who?: The Many Faces of Noma Bar.

The importance of personal projects

Ched — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:30:21 +0000

Facebook creative director Ji Lee is probably best known for his word bubble ad-busting from a couple of years back. Here he talks about the importance of personal projects, and how they’ve led him to bigger and better projects.

I Made A Mobile Web App: What The Flag

Ched — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 13:16:32 +0000

So, after coming across some code for a static quiz, I decided to extend it to WordPress in order to manage data and create random questions and answers. I realised that it would be a good proof of concept for a simple web app made for mobile, and so that became the goal. Of course [...]

Giving Up the Ghost: Adobe and Big Spaceship present The Expressive Web

Ched — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 15:12:01 +0000

Looks like Adobe has opted for web standards, moving away from the applications of Flash. Amazing tech demo happening at The Expressive Web; love the game elements thrown in. Here’s a video detailing the process: Check out the site.

Doing it Wrong: Sports Illustrated Digital Edition

Ched — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 12:46:42 +0000

Even large publications like Sports Illustrated don’t seem to get it. Mashable’s article takes a look behind the scenes of their production, and it’s incredibly wasteful. Everything still starts with print,” says Hercik, who has worked in the creative department of the Sports Illustrated Group for nearly a decade. “You work from scratch on every [...]

How to make a Cinemagraph with Photoshop and After Effects

Ched — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 14:16:23 +0000

I always wanted to know how these cinemagraph GIFs were made. These things are all over tumblr. Here’s another tutorial, but in Photoshop. Now all I need is some free time to create one.