The Pixel Painter

Many years ago, my younger brother created a computer picture of the Titanic using Microsoft Paint using an old inherited PC running Windows 3.1. He was fascinated by it and I have to say he did an amazing job. Unfortunately the image was lost but time moved on and he discovered Photoshop…

I came across this video randomly today of a 97 year old ‘Grandpa’, a former typogrpaher who still uses Windows 95 & Microsoft Paint to create art. He is practically blind and has lots of patience and time to create his images. Despite having Macular Degeneration, he loves to use the computer as he has the ability to zoom in to work. His shading and textures just using pixels have an almost Impressionist / retro quality. His ‘paintings’ are amazing…

The Man Who Paints from Windows 95 Paint

Rare colour film of London in 1927

This is absolutely fascinating. Somehow black and white film doesn’t seem quite ‘real’ but when you see images from the past in colour, it’s like a little piece of time travel. In 1927 Claude Friese-Greene shot some of the first-ever color film footage around London. He captured everyday life in the city with a technique innovated by his father, called Biocolour.

Quite beautiful…

Shared courtesy of Tim Sparke and Alexander Moore

Really nice travel inspiration site

Love the bold imagery and clean design of this. Really makes you want to visit these places. If only all travel sites took inspiration from this form and functionality…

Escapeflight.com

Landing Page 1

Landing page 2

Landing Page 3

Search function by filters

Results by filters

Results by filter & choose alternatives

Bond Cars Scrolling website

Absolutely love this site… So simply styled but really effective.

http://www.evanshalshaw.com/bondcars/

License to Drive

Detroit: Now & Then Images

The plight of Detroit has been well documented. Over the past 50 years the Motor City’s population and industry have plummeted resulting in a city falling into decay. Detroiturbex is a website created to “raise awareness of the social and economic challenges the city of Detroit faces” through a series of photographs of abandoned civic institutions, parks and neighbourhoods.

The East Town Theatre

http://detroiturbex.com/content/ba/index.html

In the new series Cass Tech – Now and Then brings those ghosts to the fore by superimposing old photographs taken in the deserted Lewis Cass Technical High School onto shots of their current condition. Though well worn, the collage technique fits well these eerie scenes of basketball games and dances in dilapidated gymnasiums. A moving showcase of a city’s sad decay.

http://detroiturbex.com/content/schools/cass/index.html

Lewis Cass tech High School

Sleeping with gadgets is bad for you… Fact!

Sleeping with your tech is bad for you. This lovely infographic explains why. The irony is that I am typing this on a computer at 1am!

Attribution to OnlinePsychologyDegree.net  

Useful resource for Android GUI’s

Quite often in my job we do mockups for mobile Apps. There are loads of PSD and vector resources for Apple products all highly rendered and polished but there aren’t that many for Android devices. Found this link today which has proved really helpful for a project am working on. Thanks to Speckyboy Design Magazine for sourcing them.

Android GUI Stencils, Kits and Templates

Android GUI