XAML and UI, whever it is found. Phone, Surface, Silverlight or WPF
Posted in Reflecting On Design on Feb 17th, 2009
Here’s an interesting idea. Create a picture using every possible RGB color. The objective of allRGB is simple: To create images with one pixel for every rgb-color (16777216 to be exact); not one color missing, and not one color twice. Working within these rules you could make some boring pictures, but as usual people are [...]
Posted in Reflecting On Design on Feb 16th, 2009
What if you performed a color map of every frame of a film and built a conglomerate map with the results? Alan Woo wrote a program to do just that and created a series of posters. A program written in processing captures each frame of each movie and essentially creates a ‘pie chart’ of [...]
Posted in Reflecting On Design on Feb 13th, 2009
More light painting photos. I especially like his portraits. Some ‘not safe for work’ items on Patrick’s site. See the entire Reflecting on Design series. The point is to find beauty elsewhere; photographs, typography, architecture, fine art, industrial design. Just maybe they’ll help wake up your inner designer.
Posted in WPF on Feb 12th, 2009
I teach a lot of WPF classes. During each class there comes a moment, usually on the third or fourth day, when the questions change and a sense of excitement rises in the room. Suddenly all the pieces come together in the students mind; the dependency system, data binding and data templates, styles, control templates [...]
Posted in Reflecting On Design, Uncategorized on Feb 12th, 2009
Painting with light creates vivid images. Sometimes called ‘light graffiti’. From Recycle Bean See the entire Reflecting on Design series. The point is to find beauty elsewhere; photographs, typography, architecture, fine art, industrial design. Just maybe they’ll help wake up your inner designer.
Posted in Blend, Visual Studio on Feb 11th, 2009
I use Expression Blend a lot when doing WPF and Silverlight projects. When I started using Expression Blend I was surprised to see that it didn’t support an add-in model. Tools like Adobe Photoshop have a plug-in model. Visual Studio has a long history of supporting the extensible model via add-ins. It seemed surprising to [...]
Posted in Reflecting On Design on Feb 11th, 2009
Walk around the Cardiff Bay locks and you see some unusual patterns in yellow paint. But stand in just the right spot, and suddenly it all makes sense. This is known as an anamorphic illusion. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/6530989.stm See the entire Reflecting on Design series. The point is to find beauty elsewhere; photographs, typography, architecture, [...]
Posted in Silverlight on Feb 10th, 2009
Do you think you got the stuff to build a great Silverlight 2 game? Microsoft is sponsoring a lot of contests lately. There is the Mix09 10K contest, seeing who can create the coolest app in less then 10K of code. There is the Show-off competition, another Mix09 contest, where you create a video [...]
Posted in Reflecting On Design on Feb 10th, 2009
While this technique has been around for a long time I still admired nicely rendered Typography art. http://www.flickr.com/photos/monya2008/2513930614/ http://camplinart.blogspot.com/2006/10/text-art-ii.html A trip back to ASCII art Apparently there are still people producing ASCII art. From the ASCII Generator See the entire Reflecting on Design series. The point is to find beauty elsewhere; photographs, typography, [...]
Posted in Reflecting On Design on Feb 9th, 2009
Humans have been inventing new forms of containers for thousands of years. From clay pots to spun aluminum the ideas are boundless. Here are a few of my favorite award winning entries in the Worldwide Packaging Design Award Competition. See the 2008 winners and many more examples at theDieline.com
