Blogs

Lorem Ipsum Dummy Text

Wed, 2009-03-11 19:41 — Paul Martin

A great story about Lorem Ipsum from PRI's the world.

Color Blindness LED Failure

Thu, 2009-01-01 19:53 — Paul Martin

Red and Green LEDs and their simulated color blind view.

This image is a follow up to the other color blindness examples.

The bottom images are the simulated color blind view. A good reminder to always use color as a secondary indicator.

Design

Over the last two years (has it really only been two?) I have enjoyed watching the different campaigns unveil and update their websites. Each site has been unique but each also contained similar elements. Several times, I purposed to write a comparison review of the sites but that never made it past some initial research.

San Jose Semaphore

Thu, 2008-10-02 21:17 — Brent Hardinge

Located at the top of the Adobe's Almaden Tower in San Jose, CA, is a LED semaphore. This semaphore was build as a large public art display by New York artist Ben Rubin.

Made up of 4 large wheels a slot or line in the middle, the semaphore was able to represent up to 256 unique characters. When the semaphore began transmission on August 7, 2006, Adobe turned it into a contest. The contest that Adobe sponsored was to decode what message was being sent via the semaphore. In addition to the visual message, they also broadcast an audio transmission over a low-power AM transmitter.