Archive for the ‘Design’ Category

Bug Labs: Products

I saw this on Mahalo Daily when Veronica was doing her CES walkaround - looks like great fun and very nerdy - I think I heard it mentioned on TWiT as “Lego Mindstorms for Adults”

BUG is a collection of easy-to-use electronic modules that snap together to build any gadget you can imagine. Each BUGmodule represents a specific gadget function (ex: a camera, a keyboard, a video output, etc). You decide which functions to include and BUG takes care of the rest letting you try out different combinations quickly and easily. With BUG and the integrated programming environment/web community (BUGnet), anyone can build, program and share innovative devices and applications. We don’t define the final products - you do.

Blogged with Flock

 

Race to the Moon

[Race to the Moon]

Beautiful artwork for your home - should be tuffte enough to last for years (boom boom)

Blogged with Flock

Pownce / 404 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Pownce / 404 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Quick Web Development Tip

If you are running a two-monitor setup and are building a website, you most likely are coding on one screen and previewing in another. Here’s a quick tip to save a bit of time refreshing the page every time you make an update: put this bit of old-school nasty HTML in the head of youor template page:
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="3">

This will refresh your page every 3 seconds, saving you having to flick over and refresh. Don’t forget to take it out when you are done!

X Communications website is now live

Large X shape made up from various orange rosettes

I’m a few days late posting this, but the X Communications website is now live on the interweb. I’m very happy with how the design turned out, and I think the code is pretty too - I tried to make it as semantic as possible, and keep the div count reasonably low. X Communications is where I work full-time, so should anyone want to employ me for my “mad design skillz” as the leet-speakers would have it, then that’s where you’ll find me.

On a side note, this site is very much a personal blog, rather than a work thing, but I’m really pleased with the way the site turned out (though I’m very self-critical), so that’s why I’m posting it here. If you have any questions about how things were done, send me an email or leave a comment