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I just returned from a much needed two week vacation in the beautiful land of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Photography is a hobby of mine, so I took quite a few pictures while I was out there. If you are interested, I threw a few of my favorites into a little web gallery for viewing:

http://www.boostworthy.com/2008/capecod/

For those curious, I shot with the following gear on this trip:

Cameras:

Canon 40D

Lenses:

Canon 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5
Canon 24-105mm f/4L IS
Canon 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS

Filters:

B+W 77mm Kaeseman Circular Polarizer (MRC Slim)

Questions and comments are certainly welcome. Enjoy!

This is bad. I have so much work to get done, yet I just wasted a bunch of precious time in Photoshop releasing some creative energy. Sometimes I just need a break from the book writing; a little personal design time often helps me refresh.

In this case, I decided to do something with one of my current favorite fonts, Avenir 95 Black. I was talking fonts with John Ferguson the other day at work, and our conversation left me wanting to do something with type. Here is the end result:

Nothing fancy, just simple geometry and color. I had just finished doing my daily review of the FWA site, so I decided to use that as the subject of my type. Felt good to get that out of my system. Now back to work!

I decided to produce one last design before I go into code-mode for the next two months. ‘Modulus‘ is a study of two-dimensional boxes generated by a script in Flash. All the boxes are randomly placed on the stage in different shades and sizes; when done properly, an illusion of three-dimensional stacking and depth occurs. Additional color treatment, texturing, and type were added afterwards in Photoshop.

During the past couple weeks, most of my time has been devoted to a certain Flash website which I cannot openly discuss right now. We finalized most of the major designs back before the holidays, so I’ve been basically 100% programming this year so far. Though I have a true passion for high-level development, I also love to design; having said that, I was very much in the mood to take a break from the code and do some design work last evening.

My latest piece is titled Binary Love. I wrote a couple of simple scripts in Flash to generate the heart patterns in the background, but other than that it was all done in Photoshop. So what is binary love you ask? A simple statement reveals all: (you & love).

I was experimenting in Flash with some Lissajous curves and decided to use one as the foundation for a new design. The sine waves that are all over the place were the only things generated in Flash, the rest was done in Photoshop.

This post goes in conjunction with my latest design piece, 'Maybe It's A Sine'. The foundation for that piece was created using a script in Flash which generated a Lissajous curve. By definition, a Lissajous curve is the graph of the system of parametric equations which describes complex harmonic motion. Don't be intimidated; the math is actually fairly simple.

Given those two formulas, all you need now is an enter frame or timer event to increment the time and usage of the Flash drawing API to actually draw the whole thing out. I tweaked the formulas quite a bit and experimented with different variations to see what would happen. Below are some of my favorite results.

It's amazing what some simple math and code can create.

I've been thinking about doing something festive for a few days now, so tonight I added yet another new piece to my collection. The light bulbs were all generated by a Flash script I wrote; none of them were placed individually. Textures, additional coloring, and type were all added afterwards in Photoshop.

I was in the mood to design tonight, so I added a new piece to my collection. The for-loop wave was done with code in Flash and the rest is all Photoshop. Feedback welcome.

I have posted some select pieces from my 2006 design portfolio for your viewing pleasure. The link to the showcase will be available from here forward on the right nav bar. You may also visit it by clicking the link below.

2006 Design Showcase