http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:19:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/design/i-converted-to-a-mac/ http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/design/i-converted-to-a-mac/#comments Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:18:49 +0000 admin http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/?p=1433 Yes yes, I gave in, I purchased my third Apple product, but this time it was slightly bigger then my previous two purchases a 16GB iPod Touch an headphones. This time it was around 8 times the price of the iPod, I decided to pick up a 27" iMac. Ever since I was interested in design I have always been told Apple Macs are the way to go, but I could never justify spending that amount of money on something my Dell 5150c computer could *just about* do. I upgraded the RAM to a massive 2GB :S and I hooked up dual 20inch wide screens as my single 17inch was a little small. ]]> http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/design/i-converted-to-a-mac/feed/ 2 http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/design/naf-jquery/ http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/design/naf-jquery/#comments Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:00:22 +0000 admin http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/?p=1395 I was not sure on what too title this but I though that NAF(non active fading) worked, basically the function below fades out the not active siblings to make the element you are hovered over stand out. I got this idea after seeing this site. After trying out many ideas and failing I knew there must be a way of selecting the not active siblings. A quick look through my Packt jQuery Reference Guide and I found .not() under the filtering methods. ]]> http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/design/naf-jquery/feed/ 0 http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/design/accent-motors-logo/ http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/design/accent-motors-logo/#comments Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:31:09 +0000 admin http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/?p=1343 Recently I have been asked to produce a brand for a car sales company called Accent Motors, which is a new start up company selling used cars. I always enjoy designing when its a subject I have a passion for, I find it makes its a lot easier for the ideas to flow.]]> http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/design/accent-motors-logo/feed/ 0 http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/design/moving-on/ http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/design/moving-on/#comments Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:15:47 +0000 admin http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/?p=1303 After 31 months of working for Blue Solutions a leading software distribution company in Wokingham I am leaving for a new job working for a digital agency in Basingstoke. I felt the time was right for a new challenge and my iPod was running out of tracks. We only learn by challenging ourselves and I felt the challenge had stopped.]]> http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/design/moving-on/feed/ 0 http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/advertising/creative-advertising/ http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/advertising/creative-advertising/#comments Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:26:07 +0000 admin http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/?p=1251 With the amount of advertising thrown in your face these days its really hard to pay much attention to it and take it all in...unless it is one of these! Some people might say these are going to far to premote the product. I say, if they get you talking about it with family, friends and collegues they have done a pretty damn good job.]]> http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/advertising/creative-advertising/feed/ 1 http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/design/feature-gallery-jquery/ http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/design/feature-gallery-jquery/#comments Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:45:11 +0000 admin http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/?p=1231 This tutorial is about how to make a gallery using Jquery, without the need for a plugin. I'm not saying don’t use a gallery plugin, but like me you might not want to, so this is an alternative. We will make this work by attaching an image to each thumbnail using the rel attribute, then replacing a div with an image.]]> http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/design/feature-gallery-jquery/feed/ 1 http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/design/fading-image-switch-jquery/ http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/design/fading-image-switch-jquery/#comments Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:30:47 +0000 admin http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/?p=1211 You can easily switch an image using CSS but that’s a straight switch, which is fine for most things. I wanted a smoother method which would fade the image from black and white to colour. This is not the most challenging of tasks but its worth doing, it is so easy to implement to multiple images. ]]> http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/design/fading-image-switch-jquery/feed/ 0 http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/design/horizontal-sliding-panel/ http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/design/horizontal-sliding-panel/#comments Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:00:08 +0000 admin http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/?p=1174 I want to make a jquery sliding panel but make it a little different. I always see tutorials on sliding panels pretty much all coming from the top and sliding down into view. I don't know about you but that's pretty boring now, the best one I've seen recently is by Jon Phillips click here to view. It appears from a point behind the button then returns to that point.]]> http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/design/horizontal-sliding-panel/feed/ 2 http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/general/liu-bolin-invisible-man/ http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/general/liu-bolin-invisible-man/#comments Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:15:37 +0000 admin http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/?p=1082 Liu Bolin is a young Beijing based artist who has exhibited primarily in china until last year’s solo show at paris’ galerie bertin toublanc and a group show with the gallery in Miami. he recently finished up a show at eli klein fine art in new york showcasing a variety of his pieces including some form the series camouflage’. this series is an exploration of human nature and animal instincts which features Chinese citizens painted to blend into their surroundings. the subjects are covered head to toe in paint, camouflaging themselves in front of the Chinese flag, a billboard or downtown Beijing.]]> http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/general/liu-bolin-invisible-man/feed/ 0 http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/design/sliding-faq/ http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/design/sliding-faq/#comments Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:05:55 +0000 admin http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/?p=1147 After my last article on a jquery image caption I have continued to fiddle with jquery and something I felt would be good to have is a FAQ slider, a bit like an accordion. I am sure you have seen one around but if not its basically a list of Questions and once clicked apon the answer is show below.]]> http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/design/sliding-faq/feed/ 0 http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/design/jquery-image-caption/ http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/design/jquery-image-caption/#comments Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:00:03 +0000 admin http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/?p=1103 This is my first tutorial on jquery so just bare with me...Jquery seems to be something I really want to learn but I just cant find the time to learn it. Everytime I open my Learning Jquery 1.3 book from Packt a deadline comes up, so the book it placed back on the shelf to gather dust! But finally I found a perfect moment to fiddle with it. So I have put together a simple effect using an image and a caption which slides up when hovered over. It was actually pretty easy to achive.]]> http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/design/jquery-image-caption/feed/ 2 http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/design/back-to-nature-website-backgrounds/ http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/design/back-to-nature-website-backgrounds/#comments Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:00:39 +0000 admin http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/?p=974 I sit at a desk pretty much all day I have noticed many websites using natural elements in there web projects, from wood panel backgrounds to full on field of grass. By using such textures you can give the illusion of your site being 3D also its something we can relate to, maybe you have a memory of rolling in the mud when younger or laying in a corn field with someone your fond of! I'm going to run through a few of my findings.]]> http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/design/back-to-nature-website-backgrounds/feed/ 0 http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/design/ea-sports-cover-design/ http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/design/ea-sports-cover-design/#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:00:35 +0000 admin http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/?p=862 If you didn't know I am a huge sports fan so I have been waiting for the new EA sports 2010 versions to come out, and I must say the covers are amazing this year! EA sports have slightly modified their trademark plain white with a cut out player and added some grit!]]> http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/design/ea-sports-cover-design/feed/ 2 http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/design/indent-an-impression-letterpress-effect/ http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/design/indent-an-impression-letterpress-effect/#comments Sat, 03 Oct 2009 19:31:53 +0000 admin http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/?p=524 The days of flat/block color text are dead you can apply many effects by just being a bit creative with CSS, CSS3 makes it a little bit easier with the text shadow style BUT until ie6 dies designers are having to find alternative ways to create text effects.]]> http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/design/indent-an-impression-letterpress-effect/feed/ 0 http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/design/cufon-fonts-for-the-people/ http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/design/cufon-fonts-for-the-people/#comments Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:00:26 +0000 admin http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/?p=549 I have always been looking around for an easy way of having custom fonts in web designs. As the web is evolving so quickly designer must make their designs stand out as much as possible and one way of doing this is using a custom font for a project.]]> http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/design/cufon-fonts-for-the-people/feed/ 0 http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/design/using-the-color-replacement-tool-in-photoshop/ http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/design/using-the-color-replacement-tool-in-photoshop/#comments Mon, 24 Aug 2009 06:10:16 +0000 admin http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/?p=475 The Color Replacement tool is great for touching up photos or dramatically changing the color of an element. Really simple tool in Photoshop but I think many people over look it and try duplicating layers and using Hue/Saturation (ctrl+U) to get the desired effect.]]> http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/design/using-the-color-replacement-tool-in-photoshop/feed/ 0 http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/design/useful-tooltip-resources/ http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/design/useful-tooltip-resources/#comments Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:00:02 +0000 admin http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/?p=387 Tool tips can be a great addition to any website, they can display additional content to a certain web element with the user hovering over a section, this then frees up your site from looking cluttered as a lot of content can be hidden. ]]> http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/design/useful-tooltip-resources/feed/ 1 http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/design/nice-flash-websites/ http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/design/nice-flash-websites/#comments Mon, 17 Aug 2009 06:09:34 +0000 admin http://www.kreativefocus.co.uk/blog/?p=366 Lately I have managed to get a copy of Flash CS4 at work and as I have not used Flash in a while I thought I would see how much I could remember. CS4 isnt massively different from previous versions so it was pretty easy to get back into the flow of it.]]> http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/design/nice-flash-websites/feed/ 1 http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/design/creating-a-fake-hdr-effect/ http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/design/creating-a-fake-hdr-effect/#comments Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:35:26 +0000 admin http://www.kreativefocus.co.uk/blog/?p=314 As I have started taking an interest in Photography I have been joining groups on flickr and one is lumix HDR. HDR photos are becoming more and more popular with people just to change there photos and give it a specific effect so im going to show you how to make a fake HDR effect.]]> http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/design/creating-a-fake-hdr-effect/feed/ 0 http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/design/sketched-font-in-ai/ http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/design/sketched-font-in-ai/#comments Sat, 01 Aug 2009 10:52:20 +0000 admin http://www.kreativefocus.co.uk/blog/?p=296 Create your own Skectchy font using Ai and following a few simple steps. There are alot of sketchy fonts/handwriten out there to choose from but what if you just want something a little different you can make your own very easily.]]> http://www.iamkreative.co.uk/blog/design/sketched-font-in-ai/feed/ 0