Goshine Design / Front-end Development

May

The League of Moveable Type Css3 ‘@font-face ready fonts’

Great stuff

A small but growing collection of free and open-source, @font-face ready fonts. Join the web font revolution.

An easy way to create 3D geometry inside Adobe Flash® CS4

by Dave Klein

In Part 1 of my series, An easy way to bring 3D content into your Adobe Flash projects, I walked you through how to use FreeSpin3D to import a 3D model into a project we created with Adobe Flash CS4 Professional and apply interactive behaviors with just a few settings.

In this tutorial, I will show you how to use FreeSpin3D to create 3D geometry directly inside Flash CS4 Professional, and then apply an interactive texture that will act as a navigation system to launch product pages on the Adobe website. You can see a working example of the finished project on the FreeSpin website.

If you missed Part 1, I encourage you to review it to get a better understanding of FreeSpin3D basics. FreeSpin3D is a tightly integrated 3D extension for Flash software that provides a visual workflow easy enough for beginning Flash designers to understand. It also provides an ActionScript API that enables advanced developers to create more complex 3D projects.

In this tutorial, I use a FreeSpin3D SpinUp. SpinUps extend the core functionality of FreeSpin3D and act as building blocks for creating more advanced 3D projects.

Go to Adobe Edge and try it for your self

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Feb

Recent Mediabistro Logo Awards Entries

Graphics.com is a participant in the first Mediabistro Logo Awards competition, which is open to graphic designers, studios, agencies, clients and students. Below are some recent entries that caught our eye.

Designer: Christine Martino “Todd Thomas is an American Baritone of critical acclaim, with a rich, resonating vocal range.
I wanted to illustrate his vocal range and professional flair with an elegant Baritone-Bass Clef.”
Designer: Tom Crawshaw “Branding for The Listening Centre, a registered charity based in Oxford, England. They offer a counselling service to people on limited income, who would otherwise be unable to afford the services of a private counsellor.”
Designer: Bryan McCloskey “Green Calgary is a dynamic, non-profit urban environmental organization with a mission to empower Calgarians to create healthy homes and communities through environmental education, products, and services.”