Addicted to cubes

by Rob Mason ~ May 16th, 2008

The Man in Blue experiments yet again, by this time with cubes!

Cubescape is a strangely addictive isometric pixel picture game/toy/art tool/application. I say strangely addictive, because you feel compelled to complete yet another image with cube-perfect positioning. I can see this becoming a problem.

Anyway this is an excellent piece of work that yet again shows how the web can be harnessed for almost anything these days.

1,000 years of Gloucestershire

by Rob Mason ~ April 11th, 2008

Gloucestershire 1000 logo I’m slightly late coming to the party, given that it started in April last year, but better late than never! Basically the county of Gloucestershire is 1,000 years old and local government agencies, charities and other groups are organising a range of events to mark the anniversary.

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Virtual Stan

by Rob Mason ~ March 12th, 2008

Old hat to some no doubt, but sometimes you’re surfing around aimlessly and come across something truly amazing.

Virtual Stan allows you to take control of a virtual version of Jason Santa Maria. You can make him happy, angry or even sing a song (Roxstan is my favourite)! Truly aimless, but excellently well done by Rob Weychert.

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How to design beautiful websites

by Rob Mason ~ March 10th, 2008

I’m not going to give you that secret, however one great pace to start is by buying “The Principles of Beautiful Web Design” by Jason Bearid. I did and I’m very glad I did so.

As the design of this site will attest, my design skills have a little room for improvement, mainly around the detail and polish. My hope was that this book would help me with some design structure and concepts on which to base my thinking. Continue reading »

Design Police | Bring bad design to justice.

by Rob Mason ~ March 8th, 2008

Brilliant! Design Police - “Bring bad design to justice”! Lots of nice little Post-It note style cut-outs to plaster all over people’s work if you don’t think it’s up to scratch. Please don’t use it on my site :)

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