John Kavanagh
Indie WebDeveloper
Client-side and Front-end Development. Expert in cross-browser compatibilities, beautiful layouts, accessibility and advanced CSS/XHTML

The Periodic Table of Typefaces

17.03.2009 0

I came across this whilst browsing through Google News this morning (of all places!), a take on the most popular, influential and notorious typefaces in the same style as the tired and ancient periodic tables hanging in classrooms across the world.

Created by Cam and posted to his portoflio on Behance Network, I’ll be waiting in line if he ever decides to sell prints of this…!

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Nice Pictures

12.02.2009 1

Nice Pictures are a relatively young company made up of a group of experienced and dedicated producers focused on delivering quality feature films for cinema and DVD.

They commissioned me to develop and deploy their website in order to create a central repository to keep investors informed of their progress, to advertise the seven films they currently hold on their slate, and to attract more interest.

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Digital Marketing Agency Intranet

10.02.2009 0

At the time this was developed I was working for a mid-sized marketing agency who’s intranet was old, ugly, buggy, and unreliable. The intention of this project had been to reduce the number of headaches and problems the current intranet caused by replacing it with an all-singing, all-dancing replacement, offering all the functionality that had either failed or never been included in their original intranet.

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SafeStart UK

07.02.2009 0

SafeStart UK develops educational packs for schools in the UK called the SafeStart Children’s Safety CD-ROM, this is a fun and interactive collection of animated games designed to captivate children’s attention, covering major topics of safety such as - road safety, fire safety and internet safety.

A lot of research goes into this product to ensure that the methods used in teaching the children who use it are as effective as possible; so it was essential that the website was not only very child-friendly, but that it also captivated that same dynamic and interactive sense of fun that the CD itself does.

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Mega Rig Shark Attack Toy Prototype

05.02.2009 0

Now a very popular part of Mattel and Matchbox’s toy offerings, in 2006 the Mega Rig Shark/Squid Attack play set was nothing more than a Styrofoam and parcel-tape mock up listing badly to one side in a bathtub and a pile of sketches.

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Google’s Favicon Changes Again

04.02.2009 0

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Many people won’t have even noticed that the little 16 x 16 pixel favicon that appears by your address bar whenever you access a Google page, and beside the title if you bookmark one of their pages, has changed. Let alone twice in the past couple of months:

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