Archive for the ‘Design’ Category

World War II Propaganda Posters

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

I've always found old hand painted posters to be really cool. So after running across an article about old propaganda posters from WWII, I thought I'd do a little digging on the interweb. Some of these are really creative, others are complete lies, and the remaining are just hilarious... I can ...

Imitated Snowflakes

Tuesday, December 5th, 2006

[singlepic=188,200,300,,right]I had a flashback while sending out my Christmas cards this weekend. The post office's new snowflake stamps look eerily similar to a few snowflake illustrations I created last year and started selling them on a stock photography site. (To help show the similarities I placed my snowflakes on the same stamp ...

Ironing Vellum

Saturday, November 11th, 2006

Never Call it Tissue Paper Vellum is the magic paper used by architects, designers, and engineers for drafting their designs. Unlike a digitally created print, after a hand drawn print is completed it's treated like a piece of film and is only touched to make changes or copies. If ...

Hitting the Sweet Spot

Saturday, October 28th, 2006

Every possible feature or fewer well integrated features? Over the last few weeks I've noticed a recurring theme floating around the interweb talking about this issue. The focus of all of these articles, blogs, and videocasts varied widely from Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, and Apple. Word vs Writely Word's feature bloat has turned it ...

Competitive Edge or Spying?

Monday, December 5th, 2005

Last year before launching my Flash Portfolio website I created a history tracking feature to help me with debugging and GUI testing. It was a great feature that helped me fine tune some of the sites functions. Initially the information was only sent to me after a test user sent me ...

New Portfolio Finished!

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2005

I finally finished my portfolio! Does this mean that I will finally go to bed before 3am... we'll see. Check it out and let me know what you think: www.jassosnchrock.com