Here is our first Twitter Design for my dear friend at Para L’ elle in Mendham, a small women’s boutique. Her Twitter icon is from her business card. Her main design element to the far left is made from a stamp (purchased at Michaels Crafts) that was then brought into Illustrator and altered in color. The bags from her store are brown with blue writing so I used a brown background and then scanned in this beautiful marbled paper I had made a number of years ago. Using Photoshop, I added some blue to the background. I like this version but my Illustrator skills are sure rusty!
Mar 14
Where Online and Real Lives Cross
Naming my new (and much improved WordPress site) “In the Cloud”, I remembered this text from http://www.dancinginkproductions.com/ . It describes this special place well, especially the sweet spot where the real and online worlds meet.
The Internet is one virtual world fed by countless tributaries–platforms–that arise and fall and feed into one collective body. Like water, the Internet reflects physical reality but also contains a life of its own. … the intersection of physical and virtual reality.
A number of years ago when I first started at Columbia for my graduate work, life online was examined as if it was an entity all to itself, yet as I finish there, the definition of what is “real” is not so clear or defined.
The subject matter…is not that collection of solid, static objects extended in space but the life that is lived in the scene that it composes; and so reality is not that external scene but the life that is lived in it. Reality is all things as they are. ~ -Wallace Stevens
Still in the process of moving everything over from many resources and blogs …
Mar 12
Interface Design
This stort-story video is an interesting mix of human-computer interface design and future holographic building tools … with a humanistic touch.
Fast Tube by Casper
