I wanted to share a site with you folks that I've been working on with the dev team at Colle+McVoy this last month.

As part of a project for Free Arts Minnesota, we put together a little web toy that allows you to make your own digital Qee and share it with the world.

What's a Qee? They are cute little vinyl toys. They come blank-white, and you get to be the designer and paint them any way you like. The digital version lets you experiment a little more with your design skills and you can fire the little dudes off to your friends.

It's pretty fun. Give it a shot and let me know what you think.

Submitted by jason - 2007-12-19 23:14:54
Channels - blogcadre design wastingtime
Tags - design flash toy qee vinyl

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"One part geek Olympics, one part community service project and one part race-against-the-clock—Sierra Bravo’s F1 Overnight Website Challenge will partner deserving Minnesota non-profits with teams of talented web developers for 24 hours of fun collaboration culminating in a fully operational website for each participating non-profit."

Two reasons why this is an awesome idea:
1. A short-timespan codeathon means you can donate your time without worrying about a gratis project blowing way out of scope. Anything that doesn't contribute to the goal needs to be efficiently nipped in the bud.
2. It supports the concept that a defined programming effort and a small team can actually accomplish a huge amount of work in a small amount of time.

Submitted by jason - 2007-10-04 15:06:47
Channels - blogcadre design programming
Tags - design web website programming codeathon challenge

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Joshua Davis puts together some really beautiful computational artwork using actionscript. His method is to define a set of drawing rules and allow the algorithm to create the composition automatically.

You can download example source from his site, which you can extrapolate into your own computer generated art creations.

Submitted by jason - 2007-06-19 09:55:02
Channels - blogcadre design hackszine
Tags - design art interactive flash opensource dynamic actionscript

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