Flat Design

I was browsing through behance and dribbble for some inspiration, and found that people are starting to get to flat design approach.

Well part of the reason  is because google started to use iconography in their graphics elements: http://www.behance.net/gallery/Google-Visual-Assets-Guidelines-Part-1/9028077

This trend also brought up by simplicity and flat design of windows phone interface:

So I started to think back then , the realistic clean elegant icon design, then the low poly kind of design approach was the trend last year, now these. I guess in couple of months, people will starts to approach flat design in their work.
If we keep on following the trend, when do we starts to create our own "trend" or develop our own style?

Flash Outdated?

We are learning flash in college, and it seem flash game is not as popular as we think of in the market, native apps can penetrate more audience that a single flash game. Flash is not supported by most smartphone as well. 

Many of you might heard a HTML5 and scrolled a couple of parallax website. 

One the example is this prometheus website: http://www.projectprometheus.com

In some of the features such as: http://www.projectprometheus.com/genesis/ they were using flash to blend into their website, when comes to http://www.projectprometheus.com/newworlds/, HTML5 + CSS3 + jQuery came in.

I remembered one of the lecturer told me that the reason the college is not teaching any HTML5, CSS3 is because it have alot of limitation when comes to interactive. Check out http://www.chromeexperiments.com/ to find out how webGL and HTML 5 canvas can work out together.

You might find out that HTML 5 is able to do alot of stuff but the technique is not mature and not all the browser supports it. It still in the middle of experiment state.

There are also goods of HTML5 and CSS3, is that we can browse with most of the mobile devices.We can make simple animation and interaction in our website, and it works across all platform.

In my opinion, flash is no doubt very useful, but I believe HTML is next big thing in terms of interactive. We shall give our best in learning flash as well, is the basics fundamental to scripting and game planning. If you cant handle it, you cant handle new language in future. If you are good at graphics only, you will always end up in poster design, might as well learn and master motion graphics.

Last but not least, here is a site you can see the different between HTML and Flash: http://flashvhtml.com/

Happy Pia-ing.

Teammates interview video behind the scene

We have this assignment when our work were selected, we assigned to produce an interview video speaking of how we do it and concept stuff.

Here are one of the behind scene of this talented Jeremy's interview video, meaning many of his work was selected.

AWD Final Presentation

Advance Web Design final presentation photo with external excessor...

Creative within the box

http://bit.ly/WZTXtA

Some say IOS have limited the space for designer, I say creatives occur within rules.

http://bit.ly/VCy8xn