Multiplicity Photography and how they do it!

May 28th, 2010

I found some cool examples of multiplicity photography. That made me wonder, how do they create those cool photo’s. I managed to find a good and clear tutorial on YouTube. Check it out and if you managed to create a cool one, let me know!

Justin Maller, How illustration should be

May 27th, 2010

A fellow buzzer recently mentioned Justin Maller on one of his Buzzes. Justin Maller is a designer with a style of his own. He creates beautiful compositions and did work for some great companies already, so it might be possible you saw his artwork already. I just couldn’t let you guys miss this. I think illustrators like him are one of a kind. Enough said. Just enjoy his work @ justinmaller.com.

Justin Maller.com - Illustrator & Art Director

Three easy to have jQuery tutorials

May 24th, 2010

The past few weeks I’ve been very busy figuring out the possibilities jQuery gives us.  I know that there are a lot of things possible with it, but I really like all the small things it can do for a designer. I’ve made a selection from all the jQuery related website I visited last week and here You have the overview.

jQuery Tutorials for Designers

This website gives us designers a really neat list of tutorials You can use on your design. It explains in a nutshell what jQuery is and gives some simple examples with it, like a disappear animation on your content or a nice transition which can be used on buttons for example. Read the whole tutorial at:

Best Animated Jquery Slideshows

When building websites I’m always using one part to show products or portfolio items. With jQuery You can easily create a clean and professional looking slideshow. On the website below you’ll find a selection of five different slideshows.

7 ‘Scroll to Top’ jQuery Solutions

The last website gives seven (oh really?) solutions to implement a go to top button on your website. This will give the user the ability to go straight to the top of the page and presents them a nice slide or animation through jQuery. And there’s a WordPress plugin provided too! Solutions like this are one of my favorites. They are easy to integrate and pretty user friendly. It just adds that little extra!

What happened the first day at Google I/O 2010

May 19th, 2010

The whole day I was waiting on the livestream of the first wave of new announcement Google would make. And now Google I/O 2010 has finally started and when I post this it’ll probably be ended already. And boy there’s a lot of nice stuff already flooding into Google Buzz and Reader. You can find  a summary about the first day at the official Google Blog here.

Jeremy Chone posted a nice list of the new keynotes already:

Google I/O Great first keynote. Key take away:

  1. HTML5 is coming fast, by end 2010 most of the modern browser will have most of HTML5.
  2. VP8 Open Source and WebM for full open video.
  3. Some cool Adobe CS5 HTML5 support
  4. Flash to support VP8 by end of year…. THIS IS HUGE.. Great contribution from Adobe to push open video.
  5. Wave Open to everybody
  6. Some deep integration of Spring/GWT for enterprise (this one, not a big fan, personally). Spring is the J2EE of the 21st century.

A nice keynote I like myself is the Chrome Web Store Google announced. This is an open market place for developers where they can sell there web apps. On the Chrome blog it’s possible to read the whole announcement.

So far so great in my opinion! What do you think about these new features? I’m already wondering what we’ll see next day. I’ll try to keep up and keep you posted.

Google Calendar gets a new look

May 18th, 2010

This morning I found out that Google Calendar had a new look. Now it looks similar to other services Google provides like Google Docs and Reader. The way how Calendar works didn’t change however. It’s still fast and easy to use, it just got a new look and feel. In my opinion it got a more professional look today. Curious? Go to www.google.com/calendar and find out for yourself!

The old look:

Old Google Calendar look

And the new look:

New Google Calendar look

An overview of some HTML5 features

May 18th, 2010

On html5demos.com you’ll find a nice overview about HTML5 features like the canvas method. It’s a great list to check what will be possible in the future. Behind every demo you can easily filter which browser you want to test in or which type of feature you want to see. Check it out and be impressed!

Want to test if your browser supports these new features? Check out this page: http://html5readiness.com/.