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Head on over to gingermonkeydesign.com to appreciate a little illustration/type goodness. I particularly enjoy the color selections and textures. I have yet to tire of the extremely ornate as long as it is hand done, the more raw the elements the better.

Peder Norrby started a great site four years ago called Trapcode People. But it died. The hard drive space and dedicated electrons decided to take a vacation to the land of no return. It stunk. The site held a wealth of well-curated presets to install for After Effects Trapcode Plug-ins. Luckily, Red Giant bought Trapcode. Luckily 2 years later, Red Giant embraced the warmth of user-groups. And, luckily they’ve shared the relaunch of Trapcode People as Red Giant People. Download. Share. Enjoy.

Great and simple app that has already saved me the time it took me to learn about it today.

a super simple storage solution that lets you drag any sort of file into a taskbar icon and have it forever stored “in the cloud.”

It’s like having dropbox, email and ow.ly all in one; and, speedy because it capitalizes shortcuts I already have in my workflow.

Check it out.

Here’s a sample of the new 3D renderings for Fort Knox. This will be part of the new customizable safe tool. Shadows still need some work, but I think it’s coming along nicely.

A great collaboration between Shawn Murdock and myself. This time he was the design lead and I did the flash creation. This site uses some nice and fancy flash actionscripting to keep the motion smooth, custom right click navigation and SEO strength too.  You should check it out to see the sweet transitions.

Details:
Design: Shawn Murdock
Flash Development: Seth Taylor
Time to complete: 2.5 weeks
Software: Flash CS3, Caurina Tweener Actionscript Class, Smultron

Yay, my idea came to fruition, they even kept the name suggestion

google goggles

Original post in Aug 2006: http://sethtaylor.com/b2/2006/08/14/google-goggles/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hhgfz0zPmH4

As you can see, there are a few differences, mainly, my version would use glasses which would be a projector screen and the front of the glasses would be a camera to help identify landmarks or whatever you were seeing.

I wish I could have explained it with those great accents though. Good job team.

brushes app - painted by finger

I’ve enjoyed the brushes app. Painted this on my iPod Touch during Thanksgiving break.

Here’s a christmas card that was fun to design for the Kennedy Center on BYU. They provide the majority of international study opportunities for the students. Joy to the world from an extraterrestrial point of view but with terrestrial references.

Jpg artifact art. This is after 20 iterations of saving a jpg at 0% quality and then isolating the artifact pattern. The irony? This final image was saved at 100 % quality to preserve the artifact sharpness.

artifact art

Harmonica NES

Since a few people asked, here’s some of the procedure/tools to make the NES Harmonica.