FF3 is almost ready to come out with over 14 thousand improvements over FF2, already one of the best web browsers out there.
The community is aiming to attempt to beat a world record with this one: let’s make it the most downloaded software ever, in 24 hours. You can go to the Spread Firefox site right now and pledge your download; give them your e-mail address to receive a reminder when the download becomes available.
Chad Pugh created an illustration for Vimeo, called “Science machine”. It’s a highly graphical representation of all sorts of science related themes and items: factories, offices, oceans, planets, animals, microbes, cells, skin, etc.
It’s all beautifully linked together in a vector-based layout made with Adobe Illustrator. The work was done over a period of several months, and Pugh reckons the total physical time spent drawing in Illustrator was about 40 hours, plus another 40 for concept and some more for getting it ready for printing.
To make it even more interesting, the artist had an application take screenshots of his computer, every five seconds, which resulted in a nearly 19 minute video of the entire process in time-lapse. There’s also an accelerated version, which I’ll embed for your viewing pleasure; if you prefer to watch the full 19-minute montage, it’s available on Vimeo.
Chad also sells prints of his amazing work, and you can check that out on his portfolio website. And now, with no further ado, here’s the time-lapse creation of “Science machine”.
I’ve been meaning to add a portfolio section to the site for quite sometime but I never had the patience to go look for a solution.
Now I finally did. I got the NextGEN Gallery WordPress plugin which was quite easy to install but also quite powerful. It’ll take me some time to feed all my work to the Gallery, but you can already take a peak at some stuff I’ve uploaded to test the plugin and get used to it.
Just click here or hit “portfolio” on the right navbar. You can also navigate directly to specific portfolio section such as ‘icons’ or ‘emoticons’, as you can see.
I understand a brand needs to be nice and ours certainly is. Emoticons, however, need to convey… well… emotion. So I have the pleasure of being allowed to make a completely pissed-off version of the frog mascot of SAPO.
Really, it’s criminal how much fun I have sometimes.
