Love of the random
I’ve recently realised my love affair with content providers that serve up the random. To me, the internet is about getting happily lost down strange alleyways, the joy of the child-like “oooh, what’s that?” and “ooh, what does that do?”. Not “featured”, not “you may also like”, not “your friends enjoyed…”. Random. Random imagery – [...]
SMIL animation of silly SVG bears
In the – possibly imaginary – battle between SVG and <canvas>, the former is likely to emerge as the winner, having a tremendous amount of geek power behind it. Nevertheless, it didn’t stop me from playing around, recently, with SVG’s animation specification: SMIL. Pronounced “smile” and meaning Synchronised Multimedia Integration Language, SMIL is a fairly [...]
“Objectified” – how did I miss this?
From the makers of “Helvetica” came “Objectified”, an interesting-looking documentary about product design. I particularly like this quote from the trailer: “My job (as a designer) is about what’s going to happen not what has happened”.