Design and discovery
Saturday, February 14, 2009
What is ether + nick?"My name is Nick Kempinski and I am in media. So, it's only natural to think about media and how we are influenced by everything and anything in the ether. And this is where I put those thoughts."
Most recent ramblings from Nick in video format, Design, discovery and humor >>
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Are floating floors the future of home design?
A floating floor is a floor that is installed without requiring nailing, stapling or gluing to another surface. This is one of its biggest advantages: clean installation, with very little room for mistakes.
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Plants grow too slow to see most of the time - making these videos seem like secret access points to a hidden world that operates at a radically different speed.
12 Time-Lapse Plant Growth Videos
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Be creative with your soda...?
Dr. Pepper lovers rejoice, here's a way to "winterize" your favorite soda by turning it into a delicious hot beverage.
Instructions are from a vintage recipe advertisement published in the 60's.
Easy to prepare–simply heat Dr Pepper in a saucepan until it steams and pour into a glass or cup over a slice of lemon. Perfect for the family or when friends drop in–and take along a thermos of Hot Dr Pepper when enjoying outdoor activities. Hot Dr Pepper–the distinctive Winter Warmer!
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Create a Professional Portfolio Design in 17 Easy Steps
This tutorial teaches you how to create a professional looking portfolio design using very basic techniques. The majority of online portfolio’s appear amateur, yet it really isn’t very difficult to produce a simple design, very quickly that can portray a professional image online.
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Great website from the artist, Rocket Club. The website is actually designed and powered by a band theme service called ebandlive.
I stumbled across it on Design Dosage. Design Dosage is a design inspiration gallery with 7 set categories, each on a set day of the week.
* Icon Monday
* Typography Tuesday
* Wallpaper Wednesday
* Illustration Thursday
* Logo Friday
* CSS Saturday
* Print Sunday
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Eric Mathew and Andrew Ooi's origami light fixtures are made of printed Japanese paper. The print is of wood grain and though the lamps are made of paper they are surprisingly robust, as wood would be. My guide at CUTMR, show curator Jeremy Vandermeij, had this to say about Andrew and Eric; "[they] share a common interest in the elegant versatility of paper as a design material. Their work utilizes paper as a valuable commodity, in contrast to its popular public conception as a ubiquitous disposable resource. Drawing inspiration from traditional Japanese uses of paper in the production of items of everyday use, their work has evolved to include lighting, furniture, and ornament."Labels: eric mathew, floating floors, lights, links, nick kempinski, plants, portfolio, recipe, video editing, web design
Poster Art, jQuery and Hotel Lobby or Home page?
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Smileycat.com has a really great article called, "Are You Focusing Too Much on Your Home Page?" In a conversation with a client the idea of a website's main page being the most important part is debated. The argument goes on to compare a website to a hotel. An excerpt is pasted below for you to read, but I highly recommend you click the link above to read the full article. I explained to her that she should think of her home page like the lobby of a hotel (an idea coined, I believe, also by Jared Spool).
When visitors arrive at your hotel, certainly they should find that the lobby represents the hotel favorably. It should be attractive, spacious, with elegant lighting, welcoming colors, and the odd feature here and there.
The lobby should make it easy for the visitor to orient themselves - to see where the front desk is and where the lifts are. It should make it easy for the guest to find out any important information at a glance - upcoming events or where the conference is being held.
However, hotels are ultimately judged by the quality of their rooms. The last hotel I stayed in was the W in Seattle. While it has a nice lobby, it's the rooms that really make a stay there memorable.
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Grab a jQuery 1.3 cheat sheet at CSS Clip.
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Kdenlive free open-source non-linear video editor for KDE. Kdenlive is an intuitive and powerful multi-track video editor, including most recent video technologies. It relies on a separate renderer, piave, to handle it’s rendering. Kdenlive is easy to use for all levels of users from novice to advanced video editors. Kdenlive is built upon MLT and ffmpeg frameworks, which provide unique features to mix virtually any kind of media.
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Bitt Box is offering wrinkled paper textures as part of their weekly Texture Tuesday freebies. But you should bookmark and subscribe to the Bitt Box feed every day because it has a wealth of design resources.
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In the mood for some poster art to inspire your new creations or just give you some eye candy to look at? Design Is Mine did a whole round up of favorites with links to the artists which is pretty cool.
Labels: bittbox, jquery, poster design, textures, video editing, web design
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