Nature By Numbers – An Animated Short

18. March 2010 · Filed under: Design, Videos · 3 Comments 

I came across a pretty badass video on vimeo called Nature By Numbers. It’s gorgeous animation was done by Etérea Studios, a graphic and animation studio run by graphic designer and 3D artist Cristóbal Vila. Etérea focuses on CGI services for clients. Nature By Numbers is described as “a short movie inspired on numbers, geometry, and nature.”

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10 Essential WordPress Plugins For Musicians

23. February 2010 · Filed under: Design, Music · 4 Comments 

So you've got a band. Now what?

Every band or musician needs a web presence. Nothing says professional like an official site and it will do wonders for getting your music noticed. If you are a band or musician and are thinking of or already using WordPress, these plugins are essential for your site. From SEO purposes to posting upcoming gigs and displaying galleries of images from recent concerts, these plugins will help you get on the right track… pun intended.

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PolyScribe Metamorphosis Art Animation

11. August 2009 · Filed under: Design, Videos · Leave a Comment 

I’ve come across another awesome video by EclecticAsylumArt. This one, titled PolyScribe Metamorphosis Art Animation, features 4 artists painting at once. Absolutely stunning and visually entertaining.

Description:

An evolving painting created by four artists working simultaneously on the same digital canvas. The painting process was unplanned and free form. The artists took cues from each others actions and interpretation of various shapes/colors. Communication was made possible by text chat. The total elapsed time was 4 hours.

The music in the video is Beethoven’s Piano Sonata, Opus 53 No. 21 (Waldstein) – Movement 1

Click here if you can’t see the video.

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Collection of Cool Concert Posters

27. July 2009 · Filed under: Design, Music, Photos · 3 Comments 

Like music and design? Then you will love this great collection of concert posters posted on Flickr. Between homemade to professional, all of these are great and stunning examples of design and music coming together to make something awesome. Some of the posters are absolutely inspiring.

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If you’d like to become a member of this group on Flickr, click here.

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If you’d like to embed a set of photos from Flickr as seen above, download the free plugin TylrSlidr for WordPress, courtesy of Tyler Craft. You can display photos from groups like in this post, as well as your own, other users, and individual sets.

Click here to download from the plugin’s official page.

Click here to download the plugin from the WordPress directory.

Many thanks to Tyler for making this cool plugin!

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Web 2.0 Origami Icons

27. July 2009 · Filed under: Design · 1 Comment 

In case you haven’t noticed already, some of the icons on my site look like origami. Well, that is thanks to Paddy Donnelly, a web designer who initially created the Twitter icon for his own site and decided to release a set of 15 origami icons for free download and use on other sites. I have to say, I was quite impressed at the uniqueness of them and how life-like they are.

15 Stunning Origami Icons

If you would like to nab a copy of these icons for yourself, click here and get yours today!

You can also follow Paddy on Twitter.

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Theme Mashup

30. May 2009 · Filed under: BlahBlahBlog, Design · Leave a Comment 

So I decided to redo my site. I wanted to stick with a lot of whitespace, but other than that, I couldn’t find a theme I really liked. I liked different elements of themes, but they didn’t all combine into one which is what I wanted. So what is a girl to do? Make a mashup of themes, of course!

I started with the original Arthemia theme, and I stripped everything down so there was lots of whitespace. I removed the top featured areas because, let’s face it, I don’t need them. I did want to keep the category bar on the top, but I hated the search area, so I decided to use The Morning After‘s search and navigation area from their theme and implement it in the header here.  I did like the Arthemia Premium‘s option on the bottom to have randomized posts so I added the scripts from the theme to this theme as well. I also upgraded Arthemia’s comment section to have threaded comments, and I did some other minor touch-ups throughout.

I’m really happy with how everything turned out and I love having all my white space with images and easy navigation. I hope you all love it as much as I do.

;) Cheers!

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