“I always experiment and I always push. That is what client wants and it is what I am being paid to do. But if I ignore the brief then anything I do becomes worthless to them. Or if I design something that is too abstract and self-inflated then it becomes meaningless no matter how beautiful it is. It has to communicate and it has to be interesting and stimulating – in that order.”

Sherlock Holmes end credits sequence

Such an inspiring interview.

Stop H*Commerce

At first when I went into the site, I thought it’s a movement by Symantec or equivalent, and didn’t notice the McAfee brand until later, and though that the brand died off in the early 2000. They were a bunch of great dudes back in 90’s but slowly overshadowed by Symantec’s Norton Antivirus. It’s nice to see them making a lot of positive comeback in this industry. However, aside from a damn fine professional job at the site’s transition and interface design. It’s really :

• Usable, from all the visual indications on what you can do and click next.
• Slick, no-nonsense site
• VERY informative towards mainstream audience that NEEDS to know about basics in avoiding scams, hackers and jargons that they always bumped into the internet world.

So this is a MUST visit for those that has no idea what a backdoor means, no it’s not your house’s back door. Please.

Thanks Eugene.

p.s. -<sarcasm> site’s aside, I really get f*cking fed up of receiving random spam message from my contact list that messaged me less than 1 alphabet per year, telling me how I can earn more moneys. So please, do yourself a favor and learn to get protected. </sarcasm>

Ryohei Hase
The illustrations produced by this artist is so vivid that it looks almost unreal.

The original Microsoft family.
Really a piece of nostalgic article about how all of them came together as Microsoft employee and 23 years after that.

Vote For Hope – MC Yogi
Thought it’s tad bit old, but serves as a good reference for motion graphics designer looking into incorporating speech/lyrics as part of their work.

So Many A Seconds
Though there might be tons of infographics (information visualisation) in the form of graphics design, it’s pretty rare to see it presented interactively. However this is a nice depiction of information from World-o-meters. And there’s even an updated statistics on Swine Flu death!

Geocoding with RSS / Papervision3D
This got me started in geocoding for some of my experiment using both geolocation and papervision. Demo is at : Globe.  (I think the geo location thing screwed up somewhere)

Make Visual

Perhaps this is one of my favorite studio that inspires me in their fine details of their motion graphics.

Gili Chen Photography

The Toke
The birth of a hybrid designer/developer. The site itself is a good mix of motion graphics, actionscript and cutting edge futuristic flash portfolio website. Definitely worth a visit.

History of Communication
Perhaps one of the beautiful things in illustrative design is that, most handdrawn animation always seems fresh to me all the time, if done right, never gets the feeling of over-done. This of course does reminds me of the ads that’s been running for a while with Maxis with all the brilliantly designed papercut animation.

credits to tsuqi for this nice stuff.