Stock Vectors

Lately i have been right into vector design, and ive been looking around at the cool stuff people have been creating and chucking up on the net.
I found this cool website that allows users to put their pieces up on the internet, and it also allows other users to download the illustrator files, and use or learn from them. It is a great way to learn how to do vector design.



The website is Vecteezy! You can find it at: http://www.vecteezy.com/

35 Beautiful Bright, Colorful Web Designs

The skillfull use of colors is a talent that all designers should possess. When used excessively, a design can look scattered, "rainbow-like", and distracting. When used too sparingly, a design can look bland.



View these 35 Designs here: http://sixrevisions.com/web_design/bright_colorful_web_designs/

20 Useful Tools to Make Web Development More Efficient

I was just surfing the net and found some pretty cool tools for css, javascript and what not. They are designed to make web development projects quicker and more productive. The tools described below are a variety of utilities, optimizers, testing, and debugging tools aimed towards helping developers create websites more efficiently.



Check the tools out here: http://sixrevisions.com/tools/20_web_development_tools/

Blink 182 - Always ... Music Video

I was checking out a filming technique that is used in the music video, Blink 182 - Always.

Then i found this awesome lego version of the music video, it's funny as. Watch the top video first, and then watch the lego version which is right underneath.

Blink 192 (Real Version)


Lego Version

Most Incredible/Ridiculous Instrument Ever

Well, this video introduces an instrument which is similar to a pipe organ... only 10 times smaller and 1000 times more confusing to use! The man in this video obviously knows how the instrument works, and he is either a genius... or an idiot.. maybe both?

Either way, this is a BAD Design!

3rd Main Project - Pullins Ski Hire

After doing some in depth research on the culture of snowboarding, i have found that a large amount of skateboarders, surfers and even musicians take snowboarding as a hobby or even professional sport.
A prime example is Shaun White, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaun_White). He is notable for competing in the X Games, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Games), in the skateboarding and also snowboarding events, while also winning gold at the Olympics for snowboarding.

Taking all this into account, i have taken into consideration the design and culture that hobbies and sports have originated from. Their design and culture in ways, has many common links such as: design, music styles & attitudes.



I will be taking in consideration the designs and cultural backing in my design for the Pullins Ski Hire Website.

Concept Presentation #2 - Personal Reflection

After our presentation today, Mark and Troy were happy with our presentations and the current situation Root Negative One are at ....except.... they had one issue with our project:

• Inconsistency with the four different groups.

By this, the Mark and Troy meant that they weren't too 'sold' by our design consistency between the concept, web, video and print teams.
We are having a meeting at 1pm this afternoon to clear up any confusions with the project, and to ensure that all our pieces of work are consistent among all four teams. The basic style guide is now available for each of the groups to download and implement.

The style guide can be found here: http://anem.com.au/aaron/boredStyleGuide.pdf

To Die For Clothing

Yesterday I found an interesting clothing brand labelled, "To Die For Clothing". This clothing brand was created by a 19 year old guy working full time during the day, and part-time printing clothing in his basement during the nights. His highly detailed prints soon became globally popular and this small part-time job has now become a large clothing brand, popular among the skateboarding and punk music scene.
The artwork resembles tattoo design and takes his influences from punk rock/hardcore music.



To Die For's artwork is definitely worth checking out: http://www.todieforclothing.com/

U2 3D

I went to see U2 3D at Imax on Wednesday night, and it was definitely worth seeing!
The screen is huge and the images on screen are 10 times larger than traditional cinema format, while also being in 3D format. The film was a recording of U2 playing in a live stadium in South America on their 'Vertigo' Tour.
The experience was amazing, it is almost like you are actually at the concert. The band members on stage feel as if they are just metres away from you, the whole atmosphere felt so realistic.
To U2's credit, they also played a great live event! Which is probably one of the reasons why they are one of the biggest bands in the world..

The 3D structure of stadium also gave myself more thought into perspective for my final project design.