More messing around with my new graphics tablet! Still dead impressed how easy it is to paint (and realistically) on this. Takes all the cruft out of painting for real (e.g. setting up a corner, laying down newspaper/rag cloth, priming canvas, mixing paints, remixing paints, paints run out, paints dry out, remixing paints, paints dry out, remixing paints, cat decides to sit on paint palette and so on..
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Ok, fun over, back to work!
Just discovered the wonderful world of Wacom Bamboo and the stunning amount of control that comes with it. Who would know that £40 could get you this kind of control?
My first forray into graphics tablets:
As someone who’s just spent a shameful amount of silly hours rethinking the graphic header of my site (the old one was seriously boring me), it brings me enormous pleasure and even greater shame to bring to you a fantastic new blog which I’ve only just stumbled across. Fantastic for all the right reasons: the content.
MIC Gadget or Made in China Gadget brings an amazing wealth of Read the rest of this entry »
One of the original books I picked up and got me into web usability research, Don’t Make Me Think is a classic and should be on every budding UX’s, bedside table, whether researcher, designer or coder.
Krug’s friendly and approachable style make this book quick and easy reading, though by no means content free. He Read the rest of this entry »
New to the world of graphics tablets as I am, I couldn’t help noticing a big fuss around the new NoteSlate device by… erm NoteSlate. Wired, Ubergizmo and Gizmodo are just a few of the big names currently raving about this fabled product, with Wireless Goodness labelling it as the ‘the $100, single-color tablet that will replace our legal pad forever’. Quite a big claim for something no one’s as yet even seen for real let alone a couple of Mr Blurrycams.
For those of you who don’t know… Read the rest of this entry »
There haven’t been many books in my life that have totally changed the way I have thought, or made me sit up and revaluate my circumstances. If there were, I’d be an incredibly lucky individual. So it was a great pleasure to chance upon Alain de Botton‘s The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
Packed full of interviews with people in all sorts of jobs in various spots around the world, from Tuna fishermen in the Maldives to biscuit marketing executives at United Read the rest of this entry »
Google have now trippled the number of countries where Android can now developers can now sell applications, Android Developers Blog reports.
No. 1 message from Kin is a message of focus… it just defocused activity from Windows Phone.
Hardly a surprise. Kin anyone? No? Don’t know it? Thought so. The surprise, however, does come from Ballmer’s public admission in The Seattle Times.
As someone who’s just landed a dream job at Essential Research, I have to give a hand to a dude who’s used possibly the most outlandishly intelligent way of getting through to the shielded Mad Men in their ivory towers to land himself a dream job at Y&R.
