I’ve recently launched a website for Asheville Tileworks. ATW makes tiles for gifts and display, creates and installs custom installations, and produces commemorative tiles. My thanks to Diana, Michael, and Celeste for being such great clients to work with.
Do you remember those Create Your Own Adventure storybooks? You could choose your storyline along the way, flipping back and forth through the book to unfold the storyline in your own unique way.
Christian Swinehart has created a set of beautiful visualizations for 12 CYOA books. To begin his process, he divides each book into narrative and ending pages. Then applies a color coding system. Each book reveals its own unique branching decisions and frequencies which ultimately form the final visualization.
Be sure to see his website for a detailed explanation and don’t forget to see one of these visualizations in action.
A few days ago, the owner of Waechter’s, Joyce Yarling, and I unveiled our latest project…Sew WOW Magazine. The idea was to create a digital magazine with flipping capability and linking features that would showcase children’s clothing kits that are fun to sew and wear. It’s a virtual catalog where all the content is clickable and leads you to the product purchase on a storefront site.
To make this idea a reality, we combined our efforts with Joyce developing the content (features, hiring a photographer, creating clothing designs, writing the articles), while I handled the programming, design, and implementation. I developed the flipbook magazine in Flash using ActionScript to customize our functionality. The product links lead to a fully customized MIVA Merchant Storefront with all the bells and whistles.
Please take a peek and see what we’ve done –> www.sewwow.com
It’s a grid. It has audio tones. The beat moves left to right. The tones move up and down. Click a box and it makes a sound. Fun, addictive, simple, and beautiful. Go play with it.
Here’s how Andre Michelle (the creator) describes ToneMatrix:
Simple sinewave synthesizer triggered by an ordinary 16step sequencer. Each triggered step causes a force on the underlaying wave-map, which makes it more cute.
20,000 mile road trip across the US, 121 strangers, 4-5 minute interviews. This is a must see. Starts Monday, June 1st at the David Lynch website.