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Killer Site #10: Francisco Aveledo – FA DESIGN

admin — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:41:48 +0000

Here is a great Graphic Design Portfolio Site. I was surfing around for some design inspiration for redoing my own portfolio site and stumbled on this. There is some great work and imagery within Francisco Aveledo’s FA DESIGN portfolio. Take a look see! This guy really has it goin’ on.

Francisco Aveledo – FA DESIGN

Blotter Art – Trippy Tiles

admin — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:46:32 +0000

I came across a great site – blotterart.com. Blotter art is the art used on sheets of tiled and perforated paper for ingesting LSD (d-lysergic acid diethylamide). Each tiled piece is a “hit” of LSD. There are some amazing and beautiful designs that have been created throughout the years. Really an inspiration to look at. Blotter Art has become a highly collectible form of art. There are signed additions of famous blotters and such at the site. There are many sites showing examples of this cool art medium, but blotterart.com is a great place to feast your eyes (and maybe lighten your wallet) if you are into collecting. The image below is of a Geisha Girl Blotter signed by the Grandmaster of trippyness himself – Timothy Leary!

Image from Blotterart.com

Great Example of FLAR: Great job with the FLARToolKit!

admin — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:40:13 +0000

I was just looking for information on the use of the FLAR technology using Adobe Flash. The FLARToolKit is an AS3 version of ARToolKit and is something really cool to behold. I believe Papervision3D is also used in conjunction with the toolkit to produce something called Augmented Reality. It involves the use of a web cam or such where the sofware can “See” certain shapes that are in the view of a cam and then use those shapes as anchors to project images. I have seen different examples, but this video I found at this blog (projectx4) showing it off is really great… very creative. A great example of the use of FLAR. Kudos guys, well done! I almost wish I had not seen this video, now I am really going to have to download the FLAR toolkit and get to figuring it out. There is a post at this blog that has a short list of links to some reference materials. If you have or know of any more examples of FLAR, Please tell us in the comments section below.

Check out the video at the Projectx4 blog

Top 100 Plus Design Blogs: Inspire and Re-wire Your Desire

admin — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:17:15 +0000

This list of Top 100 Plus Design Blogs is used mostly for my personal inspiration. Design Blogs come in many flavors. These flavors are more dynamic than most web docs due to the nature of their creators… designers at heart. I hope you find a blog that you have not seen yet. I will append this list as I see fit… If you have a Design Blog and it’s not on the list (and you think it should be on this Top list) submit your site in the comments. We would all love to have a look see. I’m at 125 design blogs and counting. Here we go (in no particular order)… I was going to just make a list, but decided to put a little more heart into it. Plus, this way you can get a visual taste of what your eyes will encounter when you visit a site.