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NypocreativeNypocreativeNypocreative is the online space of Andrew Butterworth and showcases several Graphic and interactive Design projects. Working for clients such as The Royal Palaces, Alliance and Leicester, QCA, LSC and many more there are numerous examples to visuall
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Book cover design
2008-05-15 18:32:00 As well as being a Graphic & interactive Design er I am also a budding novelist and have completed my first, full length young adult fantasy fiction novel which I am currently revising. I created a cover to go with my book and although it is seen as not very professional to include your own artwork when submitting manuscripts I wanted to do one anyway for the fun of it. The original idea and More About: Book , Cover
Manchester Pride 08 goes live
2008-05-06 11:45:00 After a competition run by Manchester Pride to create a new brand identity was run this year the site needed sprucing up a little and here is the final outcome with fancy swirly lines, butterflies, sIFR flash replacement text and everything. Visit the site here: www.manchesterpride.com More About: Live
Font Creation Online
2008-04-10 14:27:00 Amazing idea this. Back in the day at university I had a go with Font ographer and haven't really touched it since. This is similar but online. There are limited shapes so you don't have anywhere near the control you get when created characters in illustrator but it is still impressive. The tools are intuitive and the keyboard shortcuts make it feel like a desktop program. The fact you can More About: Online , Creation
Image and video smoothing with actionscript
2008-03-06 18:29:00 Image Smoothing For some reason when Adobe released Flash 8 they gave the user the option as to whether to smooth an imported image or not. In the past this has been done by default and I can't really see why anyone would want the image not to be smoothed when scaling up but maybe that's just me. You now need to right click the image in the library and allow smoothing. This is all well and good More About: Video , Actionscript , Image
Manchester Independant Economic Review goes live
2008-02-01 14:13:00 Just thought I'd post another site that has gone live recently which I did the lovely design for. It was a fairly basic content managed site that allowed the addition of multiple pages, content, downloads, webcasts etc etc. http://www.manchester-review.org.uk/ More About: Review , Manchester , Live , Economic , Independant
Quarantine is now live
2008-02-01 13:42:00 Quarantine is an experimental theatre group based in Manchester. They work on the cutting edge of new theatre and production and required an update to their previous site. This involved creating a clean, crisp, stylish site that was unique and utilized white space to maximum effect. The content management system was pretty intricate for this site as it allowed the client to select any More About: Live
North West Business Club goes live
2008-02-01 13:34:00 The shiny new business club website is up and running now. After a complete redesign and update to the existing content management system we built ensured a happy client and a fresh new look. http://www.nwbusinessclub.com/ More About: Business , North , West , Live , Club
litmusapp.com has arrived
2007-11-05 12:09:00 For those of you that haven't discovered Firebug yet, well, shame on you basically. Anyone that is still adding background-color: red; seriously needs to get with the times because tools like this make your life so much easier - as a designer or a programmer. Firebug basically worked on the idea of being able to edit the code of a page whilst looking at it. What litmus have done is try to take More About: Sapp
Great site for web design links
2007-10-26 17:24:00 This site has been around for ages now, and undergone a re-design to make it much more usable - but I reckon this is probably the most useful web design links site at the mo: http://www.alvit.de/handbook/ You go any more sites like this? Let me know :) More About: Web Design , Design , Links , Great , Site
Create a flash game in under a minute
2007-10-03 14:11:00 Make games | Share | Play free online games | User Generated Game s @ Pictogame Thanks a lot to Reece over at guerrilla-gorilla for this little link. Pictogame is a fun and easy way to create several flash games with the faces of all your friends. Simply select a flash game from the extensive list, upload an image of a friend, use the easy crop tool to select their face from the image and enter a More About: Flash , Minute , Create
Useful stripe generator
2007-10-03 14:04:00 Hello all, I'm really sorry it's been so long since my last post. I hope to get some more useful links and tutorials up soon but I've been so busy lately I've not had chance. I've added a few new projects to my portfolio section that have gone live recently and will be adding loads more soon. Just wanted to add a quick note about a stripe generator I've recently come across. Although striped More About: Generator
ning - create your own social network
2007-08-06 16:50:00 It was only a matter of time before someone made a 'Create your own MySpace' site and ning have done an amazing job. Not only does the site function like a dream but the sample designs they have created are really nice and you have quite a lot of customization available - such as the repeated background I have created on Creative Writing. You can also use firebug to find id and class names and More About: Social , Network , Social Network
Manchester is My Planet goes live!
2007-07-06 15:11:00 Manchester is My Planet brings together the ten Local Authorities, organisations, businesses and individuals across Greater Manchester to address climate change and energy efficiency. We were approached to revamp their current site and to create a full CMS. The results can be seen at www.manchesterismyplanet.com More About: Manchester , Live , Goes , Chester
Tameside Prospectus goes live
2007-06-20 12:59:00 They're flying out of the door now. Tameside Prospect us provides an online database of courses for adults and employers in the Tameside area of Manchester. The site contains many features including a course shopping basket, google map integration and a PDF generator. The look and feel was designed as a more adult oriented view of the existing Tameside 14 - 19 Prospectus that went live earlier More About: Live , Goes
Urbis and Routes Online
2007-06-13 14:24:00 In keeping with the run of sites I've been posting here as they've gone live I thought I'd add a couple more - Urbis (made live earlier this year) and Routes Online (beta made live last month). Urbis We have worked with Urbis, Manchester for some time now and were recently asked to re-design the site to tie in with the new print and branding materials. Located at the heart of Manchester, Urbis More About: Utes
LIVING-i site launched for Persimmon
2007-06-06 14:24:00 Another site through the door. LIVING-i was designed for Persimmon to showcase their new innovative homes built in Irlam, Manchester. The LIVING-i project was conceived to help Persimmon try and assess various materials and modern methods of construction for the future. Persimmon strive to improve all areas of house building, with focus on quality control, increasing the speed of build and More About: Living , Site , Launched
Manchester Pride 2007 site goes live
2007-06-05 16:57:00 After a complete branding revamp, idaho technology were asked to look at the 2007 site for the Manchester Pride Festival. Having worked on the site for several years we instantly knew the kind of approach they would be after and set about creating a neon-on-black look. This was a nice change for me as it is actually the first black background site I've designed. The neon colours are effective More About: Site , Live , Goes
London 2012 Olympics branding
2007-06-04 17:18:00 For anyone who has already seen the London 2012 Olympics logo my sympathies are with you. To my surprise it was created by Wolff Olins. I'm not one to openly criticize other designers work as there are always pressures and direction from clients and, quite often, reasoning behind things a lot of people miss but I have to say this is far from my favourite logo creation. He is responsible for some More About: Branding
Creating your own flash video skin
2007-06-04 14:48:00 Well, as promised here is a quick breakdown of the flash video player and how to create a custom skin. First of all, there are several ways to import your video into flash. I have mainly been using the src and the import method. Import MethodFile > import > import video… You will be asked how you would like to deploy your video. I have been using Progressive as using the Flash Communication More About: Video , Skin , Creating
Customizing the Flash Video Player
2007-05-17 14:08:00 Just thought I'd do a quick post to let you know what I'm up to. I've been experimenting with flash video recently and have created a custom flash player. I realised there is a lot to video encoding and formatting I knew relatively little about before embarking on this current project. I have, however, learnt quite a lot of nifty techniques along the way and am over the moon with the outcome. I More About: Video , Flash , Player , Layer , The Flash
Design / Development Programs Poll Results
2007-05-11 13:01:00 Well, a big thank you to everyone who took part in this poll. I've decided to cap it at 200 441 votes as it just keeps on rising. A big thanks to Cameron Adams who featured a link to this poll on his homepage and to Dan Lindop for your kind comments. Well, onto the results. I discovered quite a few programs in the 'other' section that should probably have been in the initial poll such as Indesign More About: Design , Programs , Development , Results , Poll
What's your favourite design / development program?
2007-04-25 13:31:00 As I've never created a poll before I thought I'd try it out here. In response to a comment I received regarding my post 'Web design Good Practice - the basics' [09/02/07] that disagreed with me that Photoshop is probably the most used program for creating web layouts I thought I'd find out. Please feel free to complete this simple poll and add any comments if you want to expand on the subject. More About: Design , Development , Program , Gram , Development Program
Nypo:creative site featured on Design Meltdown
2007-04-23 14:00:00 A big thanks to Patrick McNeil for including my site on Design Meltdown - it was a nice surprise. Nypo:creative has been added to the new 'Muted' colours section which features many toned down sites with splashes of more vibrant colours to add emphasis. Patrick says "...the goal of Design Melt Down has become to collect and categorize sites into classifications that you simply can't search for. More About: Creative , Site , Featured , Feat
Design links and RSS feeds [updated 13/04/07]
2007-04-13 14:18:00 Just wanted to say thank you to the growing number of people who have been visiting my site and subscribing to my RSS feed. Fell free to forward any links onto anyone who may be interested in the stuff I'm writing about and also to make comments on any of the posts here - whether you agree or not. "The Design links and RSS feeds" [posted 23 March 2007] has now been updated to include some sites More About: Links
Online Software
2007-04-11 13:49:00 After reading an article this week I thought I'd write a post on Adobes plans for an online future. Following in the footsteps of Google - or realizing that Google may well take over the world if someone doesn't stop them - Adobe recently announced it is planning on making an online version of Photoshop. The plan is to create a hosted version of Photoshop that would be free to use. At first I More About: Software , Online
Funny Letter showing the mindset of some customers
2007-04-02 14:39:00 Came across this letter on Digg today. The author is unknown but there are some funny comments which, if you work in the world of the web, you'll probably be able to associate with: Dear Mr. Architect: Please design and build me a house. I am not quite sure of what I need, so you should use your discretion. My house should have somewhere between two and forty-five bedrooms. Just make More About: Funny , Customers , Letter , Mindset , The Mind
Amaznode - ActionScript 3.0 for Amazon
2007-03-29 13:31:00 This is amazing. Not only does the initial homepage go back to the roots of great search engines (ie a just text box and simple options) but the scripting and linking between results is great. It was described by adobe as: “A relation-based search engine for Amazon .com that is made with Flash and ActionScript 3.0. Visualize a relation network of products from the data of "customers who bought More About: Actionscript
A special treat for you Sage users
2007-03-27 13:56:00 [update: v2.0 is available now] After discovering you can add your own stylesheets to the Firefox RSS reader Sage I set about trying to make it a bit nicer than the blue boxes that currently come as standard. Click here to open the nypo stylesheet. To install simply do File > Save Page As and save it to your desktop. Open Sage options > settings > and select 'Use Custom Stylesheet'. Although More About: Special , Treat , Users
Design links and RSS feeds
2007-03-23 13:31:00 [update - 13/04/07] Some new sites (and sites I forgot to add) have now been added below. I have now included a file to be imported into your Favourites / Bookmarks if you want the entire list. Click here to download it. You will then need to save it to your desktop and import it into your browser. Don't forget you can import the entire RSS feed list into you reader below. The OPML file has now More About: Design , Links
News Sniffer - Comment Censorship from the BBC
More articles from this author:2007-03-20 14:06:00 The News Sniff er project aims to monitor corporate news organisations to uncover bias and it is possible to view the comments the BBC censored in the 'Watch your Mouth' section. It is also possible to see amendments to stories. Quite interesting to see the kind of things that don't get through the net. http://newssniffer.newworldodour.co.uk/ More About: Censorship , Comment 1, 2 |
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