Website Design and Illustration, London

Work on my new website is underway… I’m not gonna give too much away, but here’s an early sketch of what’s in store. The site will be Actionscript 3.0 and feature artwork and 3D imagery.

An interesting article on the optimal time to post to Twitter for maximum impact. It seems times between 9am-3pm are best, with 1-2pm being top. This article is based on PST however… and the behaviour patterns of people in the west coast of the USA could potentially be different to a UK reader base. Still [...]

Kicking off the Over Here! website’s life with a call for actresses to attend an open Audition, Saturday December 5th at Los Angeles Saban Theatre for the role of June, starring opposite Cody Linley. Expect more on this project soon. The show is scheduled for January 2010.
Visit the website: http://www.overherela.com

With the move to London comes a whole bunch of new ideas for a brand new Toasted Digital Website, focusing on demostrating the Actionscript and Illustration skillset. Expect development to begin soon in between the awesome new projects I’m working on at the moment.
Sam

Thought I would post some of my personal non-commercial illustrations. Most of these were drawn by hand, then scanned in and painted in photoshop using my Wacom Tablet.

Well… in the process of doing so anyway. I’ve packed up and left Bristol to make merry a time in the big smoke. It’s been a great few years in Bristol, but now it’s time to move to a new locale, with new people and places to draw inspiration from. I was born in Bristol, [...]

Matt and I have just finished a spruce up and redesign of simonjaymes.com. Doing away with flash for usability, Simon’s site now has a new face.
www.simonjaymes.com

Interface feedback is one of the most important parts of designing any interface, be it a basic website or a fully-blown desktop application. With it, users know exactly what’s going on in front of them. Without it, users are lost and confused.
But what IS interface feedback? The easiest way to understand interface feedback is to [...]

I’ve just finished working on a game for NESTA with Pixillion Digital and Tijuana Design. The game was a different challenge to the virals I’ve been working on recently, with it having multiple levels and characters, as well as a highscore table powered by a MySQL database. There was also a lot of drawing to [...]