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Sekai Camera – Air Tagging at it’s best

admin — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:16:56 +0000

Soon to be released in Japan for the iPhone, and then internationally. The Sekai Camera App is a marvel to behold. The developers have come up with an actual real world use for Augmented Reality (AR). The app allows the tagging of scenes, you know… strip joints, opium dens, absinthe bars, brothels, ok ok … just kidding… NOT! Well anyways, some cool stuff to say the least. Put text tags and picture tags on areas that you have been to. Then when someone else points their camera with the Sekai Camera app running at the same scene, they will see your tags floating in the image on the LCD screen. Much cooler then carving your name in a tree or tagging a wall with some graffiti (that is so yesterday). The main website is here: Sekai Camera (japanese) They say it will be released soon in Japan and everywhere else shortly after. The company also plans on releasing an Android version in the months to follow. Will it be free? I have no idear. I posted a bit ago about a similar Augmented Reality technology here at Paperflame. Check out the vid of the Sekai Camera in action. The only problem I predict is the abuse of advertisers and spammers cluttering up all of the pretty scenes. Can you see it now? Your pointing your camera at the Great Pyramid and see an advertisement for Coca-Cola telling you your thirsty because your standing in the middle of a desert? It could be a cool job though, “Air Tagging” popular places for companies. Sign me up. On another note, what’s up with the guys hair in the vid!?

Google Voice Business Cards: Did you get yours?

admin — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 01:09:25 +0000

A little while back I got my Google Voice Phone Number. As of this post, you still have to sign up for an invite. I got my invite pretty quick. I think it was about a week wait. If you would like to learn more about Google Voice, click here. Well, after logging in to my Google Voice Account, I noticed this little Icon and link to get free Google Business Cards for the first 25,000 users of Google Voice (they are not giving them out as of now). Well I made the first 25,000 so proceeded to sign up for the cards. This is what they looked like when I received them. Pretty cool. Just thought I would share this image of an actual Google Voice Business Card in the wild. Simple, Clean and oh so Google-ish. Oh yeah, did I say Google Voice is a killer Google Application? It’s like Gmail for your phone! Yeah yeah, you might think I’m nuts showing my name and contact information, well I got’s nuttin’ to hide! Feel free to leave me a message!

MINI Space: Design Contest – An Urban Initiative

admin — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:01:42 +0000

As of this post there are 72 days left to get your designs uploaded to www.minispace.com (you know, the car MINI). Well, over at their website, creative folk like you can register as members. Signing up allows you to get involved in creative projects and competitions, get involved in MINI events and parties, and allows you to get featured with your creative work and meet others like yourself. I have not submitted my design as of yet, but plan on doing so before the deadline is up. The design topic for this contest is to reinterpret the topic “Electrified” for the electric version of the MINI – (MINI E). They are looking for a design for the background for the minispace.com website. Gert Hildebrand, the director of MINI Design along with his team will be choosing their favorite design – The winner gets a brand spanking new Macbook Air. You might think a Mac MINI might be more appropriate, but lets face it… I think we would all prefer the Macbook Air! Go ahead and surf on over to www.minispace.com to find out the specifics. Below is one of the top voted images so far. The design is by a guy named Reno Lamotte-Pongerard (yeah he’s from France).

MINI Space Design Contest Submission – Reno Lamotte-Pongerard

Salomon Snowboard Graphics Winners and Templates

admin — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:12:25 +0000

I was wandering around cyberspace looking for info on Snowboard Graphics. Along with the many tutorials I found for creating snowboard graphics, one site stood out. Salomon (you know – the ski company) has a snowboard graphic design contest each year. The 2008 contest is over already, but the winners are listed on their site along with the winning designs. After browsing through the eye candy, I noticed that they had their snowboard templates still available for download! Sweet. You see, all of the tutorials I had seen for designing your own snowboard graphics all consisted mostly of how to create the outline/shape/vector of a snowboard (not thrilling). Then they tell you to put your graphic on it… Well anyways, I am going to skip the tutorial, because I know you know how to copy and paste your own graphics. Creating your own graphics is something that we all have to learn to do and is too large in scope to go through in just one post (ah duh). Now back to the templates… yes, they provide the front and back in both .psd and .eps formats so that you may either use Illustrator and or Photoshop to design your own cool snowboard graphics. I am going to redistribute the templates here at PaperFlame just in case they remove them (which I don’t think they will). The templates are at the bottom of this post. Enjoy! Oh yeah I almost forgot, here are the top five winners!

Here are the Snowboard Templates:
SSAC_LayoutsKit.zip - 501kb
(includes: Layout.eps, Layout_Board.psd, ssac_fullbriefing.pdf)

Note – The 2008 contest is over.
I am redistributing these templates for the fun of it.
Maybe you can give it a shot next year.

Adobe Unleashes Creative Suite CS4

admin — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:21:55 +0000

It’s out, just about… sweet, I mean “suite”. Adobe has readied their awesome Creative Suite CS4. The newest CS offers even tighter integration and enhanced productivity. As you may or may not know, the new suite integrates Flash across the whole product line. Designers can look for better work flow among a plethora of other changes. Adobe plans to start shipping CS4 in October 2008. CS4 pricing starts around $1600. There are a bunch of different editions available at different costs as I’m sure you all know. You can see them here. Adobe really has an amazing set of tools. Where would the world be without them?

Adobe Creative Suite CS4