the wanderlust.net by Anthony Stonehouse Dancing light, transformation, distortion, animation, blending tangible with digital, all these things fascinate me about projection — I especially love projected type. Recently I’ve come across a few inspirational examples of projection and also some really lovely wallpapers.
The amazing projection projects created by UrbanScreen.
Hirzberger Events: Digital Wallpaper.
Tobias Battenberg’s projected Akzidenz Grotesk.
Watermarks Project: Projecting Future Water Levels on Building Facades.
A year ago I posted web design trends for 2011, many of which evolved to different extends throughout the year and will continue this year. So here are my 2012 predictions for trends in visual design for the web.
New UI design opportunities are becoming available as we adopt 3D technologies, augmented reality and gesture based control. Screens will evolve from rectangles that we look through, in to destinations we can move in to. While augmented reality enables the user interface to exist along side the real world.
Brighton, Friday June 17, 2011 — one of the first conferences devoted specifically to web typography. I still find it hard to believe we’ve finally reached this era. Designers can now use a wider variety of faces and apply typographic control to HTML using fonts that have been specially designed for screen use. It’s certainly […]
The design process always requires some sort of image based research. Ideally this takes place at the start of a project, with one of the primary outcomes being a mood board. Other outcomes will are often a visual audit of existing design, a competitor analysis and some exploration in to the key audiences. The mood […]
Web designers have historically had to work within a tight set of restrictions. Computer’s were restricted to 256 colours, with only 216 consistent across Macs and PCs; Keyboards and mice were the only input devices used for navigation, and; Users generally only accessed content sitting at a desk — either at work or home with a monitor. All of those restrictions no longer apply.
The first quarter of 2011 is over so I start to review my predicted trends within web design, and whether sites are adopting any of them.
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