January 23, 2013
by James Brocklehurst
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Varoom – the illustration report, is “a unique large format publication commenting and discussing the contemporary illustrated image in depth”. It is published by the Association of Illustrators in the UK.
January 10, 2013
by James Brocklehurst
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Here is a quick method for prototyping app books that will run on an iPad. It’s not App-Store ready, in that there is limited interactivity, but doesn’t really require any programming so provides a good way for designers and artists to get something up and running to show clients without having to learn Objective-C or even HTML.
October 16, 2012
by James Brocklehurst
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I’ve not updated the blog recently, because I’ve been busy writing elsewhere. Here are two articles that have resulted from said endeavours.
July 19, 2012
by James Brocklehurst
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These are the notes from a presentation I delivered at the 2nd Message Symposium Against Orthodoxy: Why Publish? back in April of this year.
May 30, 2012
by James Brocklehurst
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Moving from designing printed materials to web pages involves taking on board a number of new concepts and leaving some other preconceptions behind. The two disciplines also have a lot in common, since they are both about communicating a series of ideas in a graphic form.
April 22, 2012
by James Brocklehurst
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Baker and PugPig are open source frameworks for creating app publications from HTML documents. This post examines how they work and makes a comparison of their features.
February 24, 2012
by James Brocklehurst
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I’ve made some printable sheets for wireframing for responsive layouts, with corresponding Photoshop templates.
October 8, 2011
by James Brocklehurst
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Here is a method I recently devised for getting YouTube videos to work in a useable and clean way within iPhone Apps. It assumes a basic familiarity with Xcode 4 and Objective-C.
August 23, 2011
by James Brocklehurst
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This is an update to the Photoshop action that I created in May 2010 to speed up my Photoshop to Web/Mobile workflow. It allows you to select any combination of layers (which may contain layer styles, vector shapes, text layers or smart objects), and automatically crops, merges and then passes them to the the Save for Web and Devices dialogue.
August 3, 2011
by James Brocklehurst
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This post looks at a way to add a subtle noise effect to HTML elements using CSS. Using this technique is of interest because it doesn’t require use of an image editor, weighs in at just a little over 2K and doesn’t generate any extra HTTP requests.
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