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CSS3 Transforms & @font-face Experiment

This is the first of what I hope are number of experiments I plan on working on over the next few months, all in an effort to get acquainted with some of the new CSS3 features out in the wild that seem to be gaining some traction.

The last few months have been pretty exciting, with all the talk about new CSS3 features and how browsers are adding support for them, it’s a great time to be a designer for the web. It’s a lot easier these days to experiment with different typefaces, layouts and techniques previously not available.

Take a look at the image below:

All Humans

No, it’s not a poster. It’s a web page completely designed using basic CSS and new CSS3 techniques. Pretty impressive right?

How’s it done?

Pretty easy actually, I used basic CSS positioning and some of the newer CSS3 features to put it together. Below are a few samples of the code so you can get an idea:

@font-face

@font-face {
	font-family: 'ChunkFiveRegular';
	src: url('Chunkfive.eot');
	src: local('ChunkFive'),local('ChunkFive'),
	    url('Chunkfive.woff') format('woff'),
	    url('Chunkfive.ttf') format('truetype'),
	    url('Chunkfive.svg#ChunkFive') format('svg');
}

Transforms

-webkit-transform: rotate(1deg);
-moz-transform: rotate(1deg);
-o-transform: rotate(1deg);

Text-Shadows & Box Shadows

text-shadow: 2px 8px #b5c1b8, -1px -1px #fff;
box-shadow: 4px 6px #b5c1b8;

The font used is called Chunk, a nice bold slab serif. The text is an excerpt from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Works in these browsers

  • Firefox 3.6
  • Safari 4
  • Chrome 5
  • Opera 10

IE can suck it.

So there it is. Nothing out of this world, however I think it shows the potential of CSS specifically the potential in using new CSS3 features.

In the words of Matt Brett:

“if you showed me that 10 years ago, my head would have exploded!�

Indeed. We’ve come a long way.


Come to Beercamp at SXSW

Will you be heading to SXSW this year? if so, you should definitely check out Beercamp; I’ll be there with the rest of the nclud team. There will be music, free beer and beer pong.

Should be a damn good time!

beercamp

On a side note

Make sure you check out the code behind the beercamp site, No images! all HTML5 and CSS3. Created by Dave DeSandro. The dude is mad I tell you, MAD!


Design Quotes Display

Bring inspiring, insightful and thought provoking design quotes to your workplace, home or anywhere you have a computer.

They say that as a designer you should surround yourself with things that inspire you, whether they are books, posters, music, magazines etc.

A few days ago while going about my daily browsing and came across a beautiful quote:

“Design is an opportunity to continue telling the story, not just to sum everything up.�

— Tate Linden

I quickly found myself searching for more quotes about design, there are tons of really good ones out there. After a while I started thinking, wouldn’t it be great if we could display these quotes on our computers in fullscreen mode? maybe as a screensaver or an interactive slideshow?

I’m all about surrounding myself with things that inspire me, things that help set a mood and get you thinking. Over at the nclud studio we have a set of LCD screens where we display client work during meetings or sometimes use to play Mario Kart. When not in use the screensavers come on and I figured, let me setup a system that allows us to display these inspiring quotes in full screen mode, as a screensaver. What better to get you in the mood when designing than reading design quotes from some of the great minds of past times and our time?

Enter Design Quotes

Head over to http://neography.com/designquotes/ and take a look for yourself.

Design Quotes ScreenSaver

It is a web page where quotes appear one after another at random, I accumulated just under 200 quotes and with the help of a WP plugin and a bit of jQuery I was able to put the visualzation together.

How to set it up as a screensaver

Mac users can use IdleWeb, a nice little app that allows you to set up any webpage as your screensaver. Just make sure you set it up in “kiosk� mode within the screensaver options.

  • Download IdleWeb Snow Leopard compatible: IdleWeb 2.1
  • If you are not on Snow Leopard yet, you can download an older version here: IdleWeb 2.0 or use WebSaver.

There are similar options for windows users, although I haven’t tested any of them.

Another option is to use browser plugins to set the browser window in fullscreen mode, again I haven’t tried yet, but I’m sure it’ll work just fine.

Features & improvements to come:

  • More Quotes
  • Ambient Sound
  • Prev/Next links
  • An RSS Feed
  • iPhone optimized version
  • Color Schemes

So there you have it, enjoy and if you have any comments or suggestions feel free to let me know.


Enter Neography

Time to have a web presence, improve my writing skills and share my work. After years of not having my own personal website, I’ve decided to give it a try.

That’s right, as if I didn’t have enough websites to keep updated, I’ve decided to start my own personal blog in an effort to share some of my thoughts and at the same time try to improve my not so hot writing skills. In addition, this website will serve as a hub for all things me, a place to share all my daily findings, my work, photographs, etc.

Before You Judge

I’ve been working on this site for over a year. Shameful, I know, it’s what I get for not setting a deadline. At the end of 2009 I decided I had to get the site up in January of 2010, so here we are. I had to get this out there before another year went by.

The site isn’t 100% complete. There are sections of the site which are unfinished and still need improvement, the markup and CSS will possibly be re-written, so please look at it as a living thing that will be constantly changing as I go.

Stay tuned, it will get interesting around here in the next few months.

In the mean time, have a look around, and if you have any feedback, feel free to send me a note or leave a comment below.

Thanks!


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