design | vbrunetti

Grids Grids Grids

Great typographic grid. Found on Site Inspire.

If you’re looking to download some apps (mobile, computer, etc.) that provide playful and inspiring ways to experience sight and sound then I’d recommend taking a look at some of the applications listed over at Creative Applications.

Dubberly Design Office Posters

Checking out the Dubberly Design Office this morning I noticed a few infographics on their site that looked interesting. This one shows the Creative Process. I’m not going to quibble about the little things, but overall it’s nice to think about how interrelated everything is that we try to artificially break into stages.

Self Portrait Study

(Role: Design Director, Original Concept. Programmer.)

I’ve been playing around with generative art in Flash for a while now. Recently I discovered how to work in using the bitmapData class in order to achieve more complex compositions. My first few tests focused on working with older photographs of myself and turning them into organic, painterly pieces.

Fun With the bitMapData Object

I’m a little late to the party here (like 4 years!), but nonetheless I’ve set out to do some generative art work with photography, flash and painterly randomness. These are the first few outputs from the new program I’ve created. Still tweaking things, but you can see my first stab in motion below (it may look done, but the final rendering takes upwards of 5 minutes – if you want to stay ’till the end).

Feltron Is At It Again

Absolutely beautiful personal data visualizations are now available to view in Feltron’s 2009 Annual Report. Don’t forget to buy a copy. Someone tell Mulvey his designer-crush just turned a new page (literally).

New Preloaded

This is a blast from the past for me, I haven’t thought about Preloaded for a while now. They’ve relaunched with a new blog/portfolio site similar to those mentioned in my earlier post, Flash No More.

The thing I dislike about this latest incarnation (and I really shouldn’t talk because my blog template isn’t sophisticated) is that their site feels very template-ized. Almost as if it were a modified wordpress template (from the likes of wordpressthemedatabse, et. al.). Now this isn’t to say that their site isn’t clean and very well executed (read a how-to here), I just think it lacks a certain uniqueness that, for instance, Big Spaceship has.

Am I off-base here?

Windows Mobile 6.5.3

Day late and a dollar short:

I do like the keyboard concept where other keys/layouts are stored off-screen in 2-d space. Though the “sliding-nav” paradigm is certainly derivative of the original iPod, you can’t blame anyone for using it. After all, Apple didn’t invent “left” and “right”.