The Chase just won it all in the VR/360 category of the EPSON International Pano Awards! I’m pretty amazed. Thanks so much to Epson for putting the contest on, and doing all the legwork to get an awesome set of judges, and all the work they’ve been doing to verify eligibility and qualifications. And congratulations to Eric!! He rocks at everything he does.
Check out the awards site here!
I just posted this on my dribbble and I’m really excited about it. I started out just making an icon in the style of an iOS app icon, and partway through decided to challenge myself to make it only using layer styles. I’ve seen a bunch of Iron Man icons, but never just his torso section, which I think is pretty visually interesting. So I present you with this icon, done completely using gradient fill and shape layers, gradient overlays, inner shadows, outer and inner glows, etc. Oh and if you want to actually download an icns file, you can do that here! Let me know what you think!
I just launched Katie’s portfolio site. It was a pretty awesome experience, I worked with Katie on the design and did all of the development (Except the Javascript gallery, which is a bit beyond my skill right now. That code is courtesy of the amazing Kyle Olson). I’m very pleased with the result, we were striving for a clean, refined look that wouldn’t distract from her work. Check it out here!!
I’m taking a break from all the stuff that I really should be doing, and playing with a new toy. Unfortunately, my roommate’s dog doesn’t like standing in front of good backgrounds, or looking at my camera for that matter. Had to get rid of the background, which is kind of hard when your aperture is set to F1.2
I’ve been working on a side project and I figured I’d share a little bit. This is a plant I made, from scratch. It’s all vectors and handmade textures. Katie says it reminds her of the plant from Wall-e, which makes me like it that much more!
Sometimes when I cook, I wonder what the gas flame on my stove would look like as a picture. Sometimes when I don’t want to work on other things, I take pictures of the gas flame on my stove. Sometimes I post pictures that I take.
So today I was drafted. I signed up as a prospect a little over a week ago, and dribbble drafted me! I’m guessing that means they share in my affinity for anthropomorphic hot dogs, or maybe they also appreciate the finer things in life, like angler fish reading newspapers. Regardless, I’m very honored to have been selected by them. Look for my debut shot tomorrow! (my dribbble) P.S. If you don’t know what dribbble is, check it out here, it’s pretty cool.
I love Hokusai’s Great Wave, from his series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji. I wanted to play around with DMesh, so I figured I would throw it in there and see what happened. Delaunay triangles are everywhere in design and illustration these days, and DMesh is a pretty easy way to mess around with it. Check it out, the regular, non pro version is free on the Mac App Store. Oh and I added some quick textures in Photoshop.
I’m pretty stoked. The Chase got blogged by two sites that I visit every day. notcot.org posts all kinds of cool design, tech, and art things, and abduzeedo.com posts a lot of design and photography inspiration. Thanks NOTCOT and Abduzeedo for the love!
