pixels and digital bits

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

recently in my bucket of pixels…

Just a few screenshots of my latest projects, none of which are officially released, but still considered “digital bits” worthy of mention - since, this IS supposed to be my daily design journal. (note to self: that sounds like a good New Year’s resolution)

It’s been a great year for Firefly Multimedia. I made a lot of new clients, a lot of new friends, word of mouth has kept a constant flow of quality connections and business has been non-stop. I love it! 2008 is gonna rock.

(Note to self: revamping this website might be a good resolution too!)

Monday, September 24th, 2007

Tabby Bear

A long time client of mine, and mother of three, has decided to start a side business, inspired by the growing number of recent toy recalls.

Tabby Bears. They’re cute, they’re cuddly, and they’re 100% safe, machine washable, no small parts, all natural, hand-made and hypo-allergenic. I just started playing around with some ideas for her design and I’m trying to use one of my old illustrations as the “setting” - the Keebler tree, bubbly sun, dancing butterflies… and now… bears. :)

Coming soon… it’s in the works.

Monday, September 10th, 2007

more flowers!

so then… after falling in love with the falling flowers, she asked if she could have that as her screensaver. I’d never made a screensaver before, so immediately, my curiosity was piqued. After a little research, and using yet another “falling snow” script as a template, I whipped up a falling flower screensaver to match her site.

You can download it here… I only made it to fit her 1024×768 screen size, so love it or leave it. ;) Perhaps, one day, I’ll find time to make some Phonobot screensavers!

Note: It only works on PC for now…

Monday, September 10th, 2007

flowers, flowers, everywhere!!!

What a fun and relaxing project! A client, who has become a wonderful friend over the past several months, asked me to design a splash page for her tantra/ayurveda/chai studio in Portland, OR. I’ve heard her make reference to giving offerings to “Ma” - her guru - often in the form of flowers. Immediately, I thought how cool it would be to have animated flowers falling over the page. After much tinkering with the script to make the flow more natural and random, I finally got the effect… it’s so pretty! Check it out…

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

iPhone UI design

I love my job.

They always hook me up with the coolest, most cutting edge projects.

I’m designing an interface for the new and much coveted iPhone. It’s quite a bit different than designing for web or handheld devices. First of all… the resolution is 160! How odd, huh? Also, it’s nice to have more screen real estate to work with (a whopping 320 x 480!) so the graphics have that nice apple crispness we’ve all come to love so much. It’s also using a sweet slidey javascript, similar to how the iPod screens slide the further you dig into the directories.

And, well, due to nondisclosure agreements… that’s really all I can say about that at the moment.
:)

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

website design - musiplication

Somebody call the Cute Police and have this website arrested!

Kat Vellos asked Firefly Multimedia to design/develop a fun and whimsical website for her hip hop math CD project. Batsauce did all the beats and studio production, Kat rhymed the times tables in an oh-so adorble way, and Firefly is doing all the design - website, CD packaging, workbook layout, etc. Go check it out… soon, there will be samples of the hipness, but for now, go click around and bask in the cuteness!

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

website design - Living Tantra

I’d like to welcome you all to the new and improved Living Tantra resource site! The client fell in love with Firefly’s organic design skills and wanted to move her Typepad blog over to WordPress (for ease of use, handy widgets and search engine results) Cory and I have been working on this one for the past couple months and just launched it Sunday evening. Go us! And go check it out - it’s really pretty! :)

I learned a lot during this project. Not only technical plugin and search engine tid bits, but also about meditation, yantras, symbols, chakras, breathing… I’ve come to the realization that I need to get back into yoga and try to “optimize” my pixel butt.

So *cheers* to Firefly Multimedia for another happy client!