Creative Digital Arts Blog

Can we use Design to make life more interesting?

Posted on May 23, 2011 by Dr. Scot Trodick

IDEO (pronounced “eye-dee-oh”) is an award-winning global design firm that takes a human-centered, design-based approach to helping organizations in the public and private sectors innovate and grow.

Visit the site – http://www.ideo.com/

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Halfbakery – Specualtion and Creative Expression

Posted on May 23, 2011 by Dr. Scot Trodick

The Halfbakery is a communal database of original, fictitious inventions, edited by its users. It was created by people who like to speculate, both as a form of satire and as a form of creative expression.
Read more – http://www.halfbakery.com/

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The Most Exciting Video Team available…

Posted on April 15, 2011 by Dr. Scot Trodick

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Mighty Optical Illusions

Posted on April 8, 2011 by Dr. Scot Trodick

Mighty Optical Illusions (c) is an Optical Illusion Database. Copyright by Vurdlak. Mighty Optical Illusions 2006.

http://www.moillusions.com/

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Pwn2Own 2010: Google Chrome is the last man standing

Posted on March 31, 2011 by Scot Trodick

Pwn2Own 2010 is under way, and after day one of the annual security showdown the results are darn near an exact replica of last year’s. Safari was the first to fall, followed by Internet Explorer 8 on Windows 7. Firefox on Windows 7 x64 was also taken down, as was the iPhone’s mobile Safari. Google Chrome, however, has yet to succumb.

SmartFoxServer now has it’s own YouTube Channel

Posted on March 17, 2011 by Dr. Scot Trodick

http://www.youtube.com/smartFoxServer

SmartFoxServer is a comprehensive platform for rapidly developing massive multi-user applications and games with Adobe Flash/Flex/Air, Java, Android, .Net, Unity3D, Silverlight, Apple iPhone etc…

It was developed with simplicity in mind, allowing developers to quickly create any type of multiplayer interactions, from basic
chat applications to complex real-time games and MMOs.

SmartFoxServer comes with a rich set of features, one of the best sets of documentations with many source examples, powerful administration tools and an active online support forum.

http://www.youtube.com/smartFoxServer

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Great Design Resources and Inspiration for Right-Brainers

Posted on March 10, 2011 by Dr. Scot Trodick

Ambidextrous illuminates the people and processes involved in design. It is a forum for the cross-disciplinary, cross-market community of people with an academic, professional and personal interest in design.

Dwell – At home in the modern world.

Founded in 1985, HOW Magazine provides graphic-design professionals with essential business information, covers new technology and processes, profiles renowned and up-and-coming designers, details noteworthy projects, and provides creative inspiration.

I.D. – Design related news and competitions

Metropolis examines contemporary life through design—architecture, interior design, product design, graphic design, crafts, planning, and preservation.

O Magazine

Print is a bimonthly magazine about visual culture and design.

Real Simple – Life made easier, every day

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Convert Adobe Flash FLA files into HTML and reach more devices

Posted on March 8, 2011 by Dr. Scot Trodick

“Wallaby” is the codename for an experimental technology that converts the artwork and animation contained in Adobe® Flash® Professional (FLA) files into HTML.

Google’s Demo Slam

Posted on February 24, 2011 by Scot Trodick

Where a little creativity takes tech demos from mundane to mind-blowing. All thanks to people like you.

http://www.demoslam.com/

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QR Code Generator

Posted on February 21, 2011 by Scot Trodick

Create QR Codes with QR Code Generator. A QR Code is a bar code that can be scanned using your camera phone and a QR Code Reader. In many parts of the world the scanning of a QR Code has become the door to the mobile Internet. To learn more about the use of QR Codes please read
Mainstream America is Ready for Bar Codes – Converging “Realspace” and “Mobilespace”.

http://qrcode.kaywa.com/

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