Abstract thing I came up with late at night recently while auditioning ‘beachy’ trance tunes for my next mix. I’m into where it’s going.

Design for Adobe XD’s February Brown Bag talk. This month, user researcher Dave Zuverink will be talking about the challenge of scaling the web experience to work on some of the smaller screens out there - mobile devices. I’m a little disappointed I couldn’t get the name of the talk changed to include the word ’scaling,’ but you can’t have everything!

I’m trying to encourage myself to spend more time designing outside of work. Also, I’m trying to break my bad habit of doing more consuming and collecting of design than doing design itself. It’s time to take those inspirations and generate, driven by some bad ass basslines. Womp womp womp.

In the beginning, there were lo-fi mixtapes, bottles of Vicks Vaporub and the rush that came from being there, back then. In the Beginning, there were Breaks. Celebrating the origins of the breaks genre with some bangin old school UK hardcore style tunes. Subscribe or download.

Continuing the theme of VuMeters, this proof of concept is the start of an ongoing project to create a fun, interactive stop-motion VuMeter. This non-interactive example is pretty simple, with a stack of sugar cubes responding to the low end of the audio spectrum. Ideally I would like to have a lot of stacks, integrated with other stop-motion design elements, as well as some realtime footage composited in. The music is Flack Su - T-Break (Beta Remix). The napping feline is our cat MIDI

It’s easy to get stuck in the same day-to-day routines. People seem to be hardcoded to lock into systems, patterns and habits, which often leads to the inability to see beauty in everyday experiences. So I’m kicking off a new series I’ve had on my mind for a while, entitled ‘Unseen’ that incorporates inspirations from the mundanity of life

Winter holiday is over and it’s time to get back to work. Things are a bit slow on PlasticBit since I’m working on a big project (more on this as it develops), but here’s the latest in the XD Brown Bag Poster series. Marc Dennert is presenting his experiences with pushing the limits on Flex skinning.

I’m fairly sure I’m not the only designer that collects interesting stuff that they find lying around. It could be a footprint on a discarded napkin , a printing mistake in a newspaper, or the aged surface of a diner tabletop. And sometimes these are unique enough that they wind up in your designs.

Continuing on the theme of playing with camera input, I thought it might be interesting to do a live ‘halftone screen’ style effect. The video input is broken into a grid of line segments with line thickness is based on brightness, palette is greyscale. More versions of this to come. Click my ugly mug to check it out.

Some of the flash stuff I’d posted was targeting Flash Player 10 even though they weren’t FP10 specific. In simple English this means they weren’t workin for people who only have Flash Player 9. This is mainly because I’m a Flex n00b and all my projects were setup for 10. I’ve revised the files and the affected posts [1, 2] should work for everyone now.