By Carman Pirie: May 31, 2010
Regardless of how one might describe the disaster unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico, I think we can all agree that the failure is, at its core, a human one. That human beings made decisions and chose to act in ways that eventually led to the disaster the world is now working to cope with and clean up. Read More »
By Jeff White:
Putting it into words
This is the hard part for many people. It really often does go back to what you like and dislike and being able to find the words to describe what you want. The trouble is, the visual language of creatives is by necessity more developed than most clients. Read More »
By Carman Pirie: May 27, 2010
My considerably better half and I had a great time this past May two-four long weekend touring southern New Brunswick by motorcycle. Along the way we stopped off at the Hopewell Rocks – one of New Brunswick’s signature tourist attractions along the famous Bay of Fundy. Read More »
By Jeff White: May 19, 2010
(This is the first part of a long post based on my presentation at the 2010 AIM Conference – Part 2 is here)
It wasn’t always easy for me to take criticism. To start with, I had classes with a man named Tony Mann in my second year at NSCAD. This man, who allegedly lives in Lady Godiva’s castle in the UK and has a toy shop that builds kinetic wooden models of people having sex, had the strangest way of grading our papers. Read More »
By Jeff White: May 11, 2010
Filed Under: Design, Development, Jeff
On the heels of my last post decreeing the death of Flash, here’s a tip I just discovered. We’ve been finishing up some revisions for a long-time client. It’s a flash site (I know, I know), but we’ve been working hard to integrate some current tech to make it more useful, like a WordPress-powered news engine and Slideshow Pro Director for managing the dozens of fantastic photo slideshows they have on the site. Read More »
By Jeff White: May 05, 2010
Filed Under: Design, Education, Jeff
The other day, Carman and I were discussing how rare it is to receive appropriate feedback from clients. It’s not that our clients aren’t intelligent and resourceful people (they are!), it’s just that they (and all businesses/organizations) have a hard time judging design on the merits of the communication job its trying to do. Read More »
By Carman Pirie: May 04, 2010
Filed Under: Carman, Kula Vidcast
By Jeff White: May 03, 2010
Filed Under: Design, Development, Jeff
I love Adobe Flash. I loved it just as much when it was called Macromedia Flash and before that when it was called FutureSplash Animator. I’ve used Flash for over 14 years, and have become pretty proficient in it. I can code most anything in ActionScript. We’ve even built quite a few sites in Flash, and numerous tools that, at the time, I don’t believe could have been created any other way. Read More »