Spektrum NL - Pirate Ship Illustration

Pirate Ship Illustration

Spektrum NL - Pirate Ship Illustration from Super Silo on Vimeo.

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Octopus Illustration

Chameleon - Octopus Illustration from Super Silo on Vimeo.

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Spacecraft Illustration

Champion Sound - Spacecraft Illustration from Super Silo on Vimeo.

All illustrations by Super Silo

Paul Rand

Paul Rand: Wikipedia (link)

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A conversation with Paul Rand

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An interview with Paul Rand (a 3 fold interview by Miggs Burroughs)

Part One:

Part Two:

Part Three:

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All about Paul Rand

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Thanks to LDL

Obama logo - an Sol Sender interview

Sol Sender, who led a design team for the Obama 08 logo, was recently interviewed about the project.

Here’s a walk through the various logo options, with some of Sol’s thoughts. The full interview videos can be watched on the website of VSA Partners (where Sol is now a strategist).

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Obama logo ideas that weren’t chosen (Click on me!)

Cover Creation

A video showing the various stages of a shooting of the iPhone, for the cover of the Macworld magazine. A work left again around three phases: photographs, photoshop and design. The whole is filmed with a Canon 5D Mark II, on a tape its of The Brokenmusicbox.

Cover creation from Peter Belanger on Vimeo.

How to add a SWF file to an Adobe PDF File

Anything that you produced in Flash and saved as a SWF or FLV file can be added to an Adobe Acrobat 9 file: Add animations, interactive maps, you name it. If you’re a Flash developer you can use ActionScript.

Go up to Multimedia in the tool bar, and choose the Flash Tool. To add the content, we can click and drag to draw where the multimedia is going to go within that box, or we can simply double click and the Flash file will be placed at that point at 100 percent of its size.

When you Double click on your document, the Insert Flash dialog box opens. Either choose the file with the Browse button, or you can stream an SWF file from a server by entering a URL. Choose “Snap to content proportions” to keep the SWF file in the right perspective (unless you don’t want it to be).

Click OK, and your Flash file will be in place. Note the Play button on the file: Click that to activate the Flash file within your PDF.

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from Acrobat 9 Pro: Creating Multimedia Projects with Brian Wood

Some Animated Movies

'Space Alone' by Ilias Sounas



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Doll Face



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Starless Night



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What's in the Box?

Geting Creative With Domain Names

Choosing a domain name for a new client is a difficult task. Domain names are the crux of a website’s existence. A bad name can create a negative impact on branding and the ability to strengthen the domain value. A good domain name is essentially priceless (tacky but true) in name, branding, ease of understanding, and catchiness.

This article piggybacks on another Smashing article but it stops short of domain extensions. Here, we are going to discuss generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs), country top level domains (ccTLDs), new and exciting domain extensions for 2009, domain hacks, and internationalized domains.

Learning this will make you even more of an awesome designer or developer for clients. You need to think of a variety of domains and possibilities for new sites, as well as uniquely branding corporate websites with domain extensions. Domain names are not a lackluster industry, it is a hidden industry that is vital to the success and maintenance of the Internet.

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