A toast to...

J Hill design have created a series of prints in a "Toast to" various countries/places. You can see the collection here.

Some useful photoshop tips.

Photoshop tips

Artist/Computer Scientist/Interactive project genius

Jonathan Harris likes putting technology and humans together in projects like this one...




...(and a brief reminder that st. valentines is just around the corner!)

Print and type and all things nice

A wonderful example of typesetting and print in motion from New North Press




And...a fantastic site for all things type

woodtyper

Letterpress studio

A bit of inspiration for your Professional Projects.

Ministry of Type recently blogged about the Hatch Show Print letterpress studio in Nashville, Tennessee - you can see the video below:



Ministry of Type

Original article on David Airey's site

The New Typography at the Moma

More information: see this site.

Flash Tutorial: Preloader

If anyone else has, like me, built their flash site and found it takes a few seconds to load you might want to check this tutorial (probably the clearest and least patronising one I've read during this project) on how to make a custom preloader (preloaders are little movie clip animations which let people know that your site is in the process of loading, you'll have visited sites with a loading bar or a percentage loaded, these are preloaders). The speedometer thing is just an example, you can make any 100 frame animation and apply the AS (it is actionscript 3).

If you think your flash site size may be too big, you can test loading times by testing the movie (apple+enter) and on the .SWF that pops up go View>Simulate Download. You can also change the connection speed the download is simulated at by going View>Download Settings.

Happy flashing!