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Start and Stop Sound with ActionScript 3.0
Triggering a background audio track on and off in ActionScript 3.0 is a bit more involved than in previous version of the language.
Create Button
The first step is to create the button with the up and over states. Since I want my button to switch between the universal Play icon (the right pointing triangle) and the [...]
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
Leonardo DaVinci was one of the most prolific artists of all time.
Read the text in his notebooks via Project Gutenberg or onEssa nova versão de toques personalizados para celular reproduz sons reais, com vocais e instrumentos musicais ao mesmo. Interconnected.org
Identity Crisis: 100 Redesigns That Transformed Stale Identities into Successful Brands
Jeff Fisher of LogoMotives with How Publishing just published Identity Crisis: 100 Redesigns That Transformed Stale Identities into Successful Brands which showcases recent identity rebranding work for as variety of industries. This book acts as a guide designers can use to show their clients the power of rethinking and redesigning their identities.
Identity design (logos, letterhead, [...]
Jack Nicholson on Advertising
Wreckio Ensemble Theater Company
“Finamore Design developed a brand identity for our company, Wreckio Ensemble Theater Company, that was spot-on with meeting our objectives. We are extremely happy with the finished product (Full Identity/Logo/Visual Language). This new identity was also seamlessly translated in to an entirely new website for our company, also developed by Finamore Design, which we [...]
Full Time at Drexel University’s Digital Media Program
I recently signed a contract to teach full time for Drexel University’s Digital Media Program. The courses I will be teaching include DIGM-240: Introduction to Interactivity, DIGM-241: Multimedia Authoring, and DIGM-242: Advanced Interactivity for the Internet. My classes will start Fall ‘07.
DIGM-240: Introduction to Interactivity
This course explores principles and techniques for creating effective interactive media-rich [...]
Certificate in Web Development from NYU SCPS
I finally received my official documentation certifying that I have completed the Web Development program at New York University’s School of Continuing Professional Studies. I completed the program with a 4.o average. The classes I took included: PHP Programming, MySQL with PHP, Web Development With XHTML and CSS, Web Architecture and Infrastructure, and Flash: Advanced [...]
NYPL Image Gallery
The New York Public Library has an online Digital Gallery that provides access to over 520,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in their collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.
These images may be freely downloaded for personal, research, and study [...]
Wreckio Ensemble - Re-Branded
Wreckio Ensemble is a theater group that specializes in creating original works that are influenced by our environment and are physically expressed through extraordinary characterizations. They came to us in need of a complete brand overhaul. They had been in business for six years and realized that it was time for a professional brand image.
See [...]
The State of the Art of Interactive Design:
Where We’ve Been, Where We Are Today, Where We Are Headed, and How We Will Get There.
Yesterday
The WWW was released by CERN for public use in 1992. Instantly, it was used as a place where companies put information for ‘easy’ public access. Mission statements, product lists, press releases, etc. The original sites were entirely textual [...]