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iOS 5 GUI for iPhone (PSD) – a free download from TeehanLax.com!

Monday, October 17th, 2011

The guys that brought us all the previous iPhone OS GUI’s are at it again. What stands out in their work is both attention to detail and a very nice organization of the content. Everything is sorted in groups (including nested groups for smaller elements). This is priceless for UX people, who can now design the interfaces for their own apps with the right elements. It’s more of a drag&drop of lego bricks into place, than anything and we like it here.

Go to teehanlax.com/blog to download your free PSD of the iPhone GUI!

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Make your own font.

Thursday, November 4th, 2010

Well not exactly “make” but it’s more of an exercise to better understand the relations between letters and it also helps a bit in future logo creation. I made this one by taking the letter “o” from Arial Black and then cutting into it, modifying the edges and such, to create a whole typeface. This is not a finished piece as some of the letters need a little tweaking, but it’s surely getting there. Go on, try and make a font yourself!

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Being personal with your music – beautiful hand-made cover designs!

Monday, October 18th, 2010

Here’s what I’ve stumbled upon today, a beautiful selection of handmade covers and packages for music that doesn’t needs 10,000 copies. Share and enjoy!

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First ever iPhone 4 music video

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

It was pretty obvious that when the new iPhone came out with it’s 720p HD video someone would make a music video using just the phone. That someone is a one man band (and the guy who shot and edited it) called Flakjakt and the video came out pretty nice. So as I expected there will now be a stream of good quality (and bad quality) videos for bands, projects, short movies shot while drunk etc. This one was edited (in Final Cut, not the built in iMovie) and there are some color changes added, but overall it looks interesting and very retro like.

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mobile creativity

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

The new iphone is out and aside from the fact whether you like it or not it does bring one thing that is truly revolutionary. And it’s not the hires screen.

Think about it – having a 720p camera in your pocket and imovie to edit it on the go will break apple’s own division of mobile products being only for consuming media while computers being the tools to create.

This changes everything because the best camera is the one you have with you, and using free time (like on a bus) to edit it will result of more creative things done “in the moment”.

And higher quality plus having your tools with you all the time is the path towards better digital media and perhaps youtube 3.0

Exciting times since now all other phone makers will make a video editing app and the trend will spread.

Also expect more virals ;)

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Krop Video

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010

We have made a video for one of Krop songs and it turned out pretty fun. Enjoy:

We’ve used a Flip Ultra HD for recording, a lot of takes and put it all together in iMovie 06 (because 06 is actually pretty good). Then we applied a 60% sepia filter and some contrast / brightness tweaks to achieve that result. Watch in HD!

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Monday’s typography examples

Monday, March 1st, 2010

Some nice uses of glyphs. Click on the image to see the author’s flickr page.

And more after the break.

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Podcast episode 0 goes Live!

Saturday, February 6th, 2010

The first episode is still not entirely defined but the next ones will rock your socks off for sure. Stay tuned for more and watch the first, introductory episode of the podcast called :

Episode 0 – Let’s get this party started

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Pixelmator tutorial – emboss and brushed metal

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

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Here’s a quick little tutorial on how to create an emboss + brushed metal + some fire effect in pixelmator. This will actually work in photoshop as well since the tools used are the same (even the same keyboard shortcuts). So if you’re a photoshop user feel free to also try it.

So here we go :
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Free textures stock database

Saturday, January 16th, 2010

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That’s right. I’ve decided to give away for FREE the collection of texture photos that I took over the years. Some were taken with the phone, some with a DSLR. The quality is different in them, but they’re all useable for either 3d modelling, or compositions in photoshop. Head down to TEXTURES and check those out. Don’t forget to donate if you really like them. And if you want full resolution contact me and we’ll arrange something for as low as 3$ for the full resolution one (2500×1600 or higher). Currently all the 900×650 textures are completely free for both commercial and non-commercial use. It’d be nice if you link to this site though.

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