http://www.cascademedia.co.uk The Blog and Portfolio of Tom Harrison Sun, 07 Dec 2008 15:09:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I found this whilst browsing around Design You Trust just now. I love it. http://www.cascademedia.co.uk/2008/12/ingenious-animation/ Spent some time this afternoon playing around in Photoshop. Rather fun. Photo by: Swisschee Splatter Brushes by: Wickedjess http://www.cascademedia.co.uk/2008/11/photo-painting/ It's been an eventful and interesting week, not entirely for the best of reasons. But work has to be done and work has been done. We've had the presentation to find out who's work should be submitted for the RSA Design Directions competition. Unfortunately my work was not deemed good ... http://www.cascademedia.co.uk/2008/11/rsa-new-directions-new-designs/ So after a rather long afternoon/ evening of working on the presentation boards for the RSA project. I took a break and decided to have some fun with Photoshop. Craig introduced me to an incredible website that goes by the name of Abduzeedo (go there, it's amazing), so I headed ... http://www.cascademedia.co.uk/2008/11/cascade-media-now-with-frills/ Meet Cyber Figure Alice, for all your otaku needs. Actually I think this is a pretty impressive example of virtual interaction and augmented reality. It reminds me of a flash project that ran along the same lines I saw a third year student present for their ... http://www.cascademedia.co.uk/2008/11/an-unusual-example-of-augmented-reality/ I realized I haven't really spoken all that much about my dissertation, so, considering the fact that I am around the halfway point and have just handed in my formative draft of it, and then considering the evolved purpose of this blog was to, well, blog about projects and progress ... http://www.cascademedia.co.uk/2008/10/technological-predictions-in-practice/ I just found this novel little programme on The Unofficial Apple Weblog that let's you convert your digital photos into Polaroid shots. Poladroid is only in it's beta phase, but it works really well and the results are pretty amusing. You just drag your photo onto the camera on your ... http://www.cascademedia.co.uk/2008/10/poladroid/ As I said earlier, I've been working on some new designs for the RSA project we're working on. The previous designs were rather rushed and looked clunky. Here are the beginnings of the new designs. They still need some work, but I think (and hopefully others will agree) they're a ... http://www.cascademedia.co.uk/2008/10/updated-stamps-concept/ Today I've spent a lot of time playing in Illustrator; mainly so I'm able to improve the stamps I'm making for our most recent project. This morning I was working on creating vectors for the stamps. It's fiddly, but I'm getting there. I've learnt a few new things along the ... http://www.cascademedia.co.uk/2008/10/typography/ The first project of the new (academic) year: Postage Stamps. The project itself is actually a negotiated brief, where we can choose from several different briefs provided by the RSA, and so I chose 'Postage Stamps'. The idea of the brief is to create six new stamps that create awareness about ... http://www.cascademedia.co.uk/2008/10/postage-stamps/