Category: Websites
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60 free desktop wallpaper designs for May from Smashing Magazine
Smashing Magazine have their usual monthly wallpaper showcase, and this month there’s 60 to choose from, with some really strong entries. This month I’ve picked the “creative spark” design by Vinod Batus from India. “The entire concept of this art came out when i was playing around with various photoshop brushes. The effect came in so…
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Name that tube and flag that city.
Today I found a new way to challenge my London knowledge, which was a map of Zone One of the London Underground without any of the station names. You have 10 minutes to type as many of the station names as you can remember and watch as your answers get added to the map. I…
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Create a minature world with the tilt-shift maker
I like the effect that a tilt-shift lens gives – turning a bustling city into a model railway set. The effect is created using a special lens which gives a very shallow depth of field on objects far away. It’s better explained in this article: What is tilt-shift photography?. The lenses aren’t cheap (theonlinephotographer.typepad.com) but…
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Mapping out the Olympic site and beyond
The Mapperz blog has highlighted a great interactive map of the activity around the country in preparation for the 2012 Olympics. Street level details shows the latest ariel photos of the site as well as altering the map to show activities over a particular time period. An excellent example of how mapping and other media can be…
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An online paper petition with heart.
The latest site I’ve been working on is for the British Heart Foundation to promote their campaign for a new government strategy for heart and circulatory disease. The site is flash based and features a crowd of origami people campaigning for BHF, and by signing the petition another person is created on screen who joins…
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Today I feel like London
I like reading guides to London, it’s such a huge and varied city you can always find something new about an area you’ve lived or worked in for years. Today I found a new site thanks to Read/WriteWeb which offers a different apporach to city guides. The IFeel series lets you browse maps of London,…
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Second hand sale online
Charities have been running online shops for some time, and beyond the basic sales of fundraising items in recent years they have moved to offering real life solutions (or ethical giving) to their cause – buy a goat for an african village, teach a classroom with a supply of textbooks. Oxfam have expanded their store…
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Brand new look, same old author
I’ve applied a new theme to the blog to bring together a few ideas I’ve had about the site. The new theme is called Agregado and is a free offering commissioned by Smashing Magazine created by Darren Hoyt and Matt Dawson. In the previous design of the blog I had used a feed syndication pluggin called Feed WordPress which let…
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Charity impact reporting. All online and interactive.
Yes, posts have been pretty scarce recently, and like 90% of bloggers this is not intended and I plan to get back on the blogging roll as soon as possible. Honest. Really. But my writing hasn’t just faded for no worthwhile reason, I have just been working on a new site which launched this week:…
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I like the music music
Oh, now this one I really like. I read about a lot of websites offering new services, new takes on an old theme, answers to problems which weren’t really there, and lots of “remember how you used to…”. This time I have actually come across a really great site. I have been a big fan…