Adam Kinney posts tagged with 'graphic design'

REMIX contest is live, win a free MIX07 ticket

Adam Kinney — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 01:03:00 GMT

The REMIX Contest is live. This is your chance to show off your CSS and design skills and win yourself free admission to MIX07. Admission is awarded to the top three winners, and we are handing out Zunes with Accessory Packs to the top 10 honorable mentions.

Mmm, Zune, I just got one today actually, I'm really digging the big screen. And, no, this is not one of the prize Zunes. So don't worry about winning a used Zune. Before I get myself into any trouble, here's the official rules for the contest.

So enjoy the submissions (none at this time of posting) and submit your remix. I am one of the judges and will be looking forward to seeing your submissions.

Windows Client team hatches the Shell Blog

Adam Kinney — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:50:00 GMT

Last week the Windows Client team launched shell: revealed, a new blog covering their work on the core user interface of Windows. Which has definitely become a hot topic with the advent of Windows Vista upon us.

The home page is interesting as any home page that tries to bubble up a lot of content is (I especially like the Recent Interviews links that point to Channel 9), but if you dig down to the actually Shell Blog you can see they already have a number of interesting posts. Vinny Pasceri has an interesting post setting the record straight in Windows UI terminology and Ed Averett talks about managing your default applications, something I still have troubles with. I know I've run the Set Programs Access and Defaults program without effect before, or maybe not all applications adhere to the program, hmm... anyways looking foward to user-based defaults in Windows Vista.

imagination.swf

Adam Kinney — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 03:18:00 GMT

This is a lot of fun. I imagine its what a drawing program would run like on the DONTCLICK.IT operating system.

Corporate Logos redrawn with a Web 2.0 brush

Adam Kinney — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 07:31:00 GMT

This is an interesting group to watch on Flickr: yay2dot0logoparody I'm not sure where but I was linked to this on Yay Hooray! somewhere. The idea behind it is that they are redesigning current recognizable corporate logos using the new styles that have become the trend for Web 2.0 companies. So of course you will see lots of reflection effects, lots of bright colors and interesting ways to not spell words correctly (Flickr, SuprGlu, etc.)

After viewing the logos, I began thinking about the 2.0 spelling trend. So why could that be happening, what helps make it cool? One thing is that naming anything nowadays is very difficult, especially when you want to reserve a "cool name".com domain name along with it. Unique spelling make that easier. But did you notice that most of the letters missing are "e"s? I wonder if there's a connection to the dot-com boom days? "I just gave my e-mail to the e-commerce times because e-business is business and I should get an e-package in the snail mail someday". (Actually that could be a true statement today)

So maybe that has something to do with it, we grew an aversion to the "e". And now we just don't use it anymore. I think I'm going to go register "adamkinny.com".