lundi 15 août 2011

Opentype contextual fonts

Le Zapfino (Extra LT Pro (Contectual)) de Lynotype et le Bickham (Script Pro ) d'Adobe sont des typo contextuelles en openType.
Ces typos s'adaptent au contexte environnant (à la longueur de la phrase) et choisissent au fil de la rédaction les lettres les plus harmonieuses… 

Zapfino :
zapfcont_ani1_d17825i129.gif
Berkham :
Bickham_04_context.gif


Sources :
· http://www.adobe.com/type/browser/landing/bickham.html

Plus de détails sur la technologie OpenType contextual.
· http://www.adobe.com/devnet/opentype.html

mercredi 6 avril 2011

Clement Valla – graphics, inspiration

http://clementvalla.com/index.php?%2Fwork%2Fbridges%2F

Gmail adress + . etc

+ . -

via: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/03/13/world/asia/satellite-photos-japan-before-and-after-tsunami.html


Here are some neat things I’ve found recently. They might not be new, but I think I need to jot them down here so I won’t forget these tips. They could be helpful for fighting or tracing spam.

The Dot

Apparently, Gmail does not recognize the dot (or capitalization either) in gmail addresses. So yourusername@gmail.com is the same as your.user.name@gmail.com and all the different combinations are sent to your inbox.

The Plus

Did you know you have an unlimited amount of aliases with Gmail? You can receive messages that are sent to your.username+any.thing.you.want@gmail.com. For example, if you forced to register online, you can use Your.user.name+some.spammy.site@gmail.com. If you start getting spam, you ‘ll know who gave your address away and you can probably then set up a filter to automatically direct those messages to, oh, say, THE TRASH.

Googlemail.com=gmail.com

Of course, I don’t want to forget that yourusername@gmail.com is also the same as yourusername@googlemail.com. Mail from either address goes to your inbox. This is probably because they can’t use gmail.com in Europe. Just a reminder though, you’ll need to login with the original address you signed up with and some websites won’t accept symbols as valid email addresses. Still, I think these are pretty neat tricks.

Biblio

Tutuki-bako, juste un doigt






http://www.tuttukibako.com/toy/
http://remotedevice.net/blog/tuttuki-bako/

mardi 22 février 2011

Interactive Catastrophy Map


Interactive world map of disasters in real time
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php#

Tinkering an Attack Drone




More about the process:
http://www.semageek.com/diy-armer-un-drone-fpv-tricopters-avec-des-feux-dartifice-pour-attaquer-des-ballons-dhydrogene/

Amiga Longplay [098] Another World


'Just found back the oldschool intro animation of this old video game = Another World.
It's amazing, inspiring, high level of challenge to reach a that complex level of details for an animation on the Amiga console… enjoy.

Full exploding high-five glove.


She's names Synthet on Youtube if I recall well and she made an exploding high-five glove…
Useless, geeky, awesome.