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iAd Designers & Developers Network
Posted on 11. Jun, 2010 by admin.
Lyraspace has launched a group on LinkedIn to gather together the talented designers and developers out there who are busy creating amazing, engaging content for the new iAd platform.
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Sign the Stripes
Posted on 27. Apr, 2010 by admin.
Lyraspace and Cravens from Newcastle in the UK recently collaborated on producing a fantastic new website for Northern Rock to promote their sponsorship of Newcastle United Football club. http://signthestripes.co.uk
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Developing for the iPad – the ultimate sales & marketing tool
Posted on 28. Jan, 2010 by admin.
Apple introduced their new thing of beauty yesterday and they didn’t disappoint. The iPad is a 9.7 inch touch screen device that works much like the iPhone but with a greatly enhanced user experience packaged up into a small, lightweight portable spectacle. I’m sure I don’t need to go on about the details of the device as every man and their dog has been to take a look but I did think it was worth discussing just how people might use the device and in particular the benefits to your productivity.
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Lyraspace launches RezzyNet.com
Posted on 03. Nov, 2009 by admin.
I’m proud to announce the launch of RezzyNet.com, a place for experiments and creativity. Please feel free to leave comments about the work and I’ll be releasing source code, screencasts and lots more work over the coming weeks and months. Enjoy.
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Flash Development for Mobile devices
Posted on 26. Oct, 2009 by admin.
There’s been some exciting news from Adobe regarding their release of Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2. The latest version of the Flash player is 10 so you would think that 10.1 would bring some minor changes to the platform but you would be wrong.
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Bespoke Flash Training
Posted on 26. Oct, 2009 by admin.
I recently spent two days teaching a training course in Flash at a design agency in Brighton. Mind Orchard are an advertising, corporate branding agency and digital animation studio and they required a training solution that was tailored to their needs and the skills of their new designer, Brett.
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Flash on the Beach 09
Posted on 20. Sep, 2009 by admin.
If you are reading this post there’s a very strong chance that you are at the Flash on the Beach conference and you’ve either been given one of my amazing business cards (thanks Moo) or we’ve just spoken and you’re checking me out to make sure I’m not just a crazy man. Well, the good news is that I am indeed a crazy man but my insanity is fueled by a love of all things Flashy.
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Intelikids Painter
Posted on 04. Sep, 2009 by admin.
I did some work with The Bio Agency in London on a Flash based painting application. The result is a slick and fun painting application with a innovative bezier curve generator behind the scenes.
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Gucci Parfum Microsite
Posted on 03. Sep, 2009 by admin.
Critical Mass asked me to help them build a Microsite engine for Gucci to showcase their range of fragrances. I built them a framework using Flex that allowed them to fully customise the look and feel with skins and themes. The site is now finally live here.
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ThinkBox Digital TV emulator
Posted on 03. Sep, 2009 by admin.
Weapon 7 asked me to help them develop an interactive TV emulator in Flash. It needed to be built as a flexible XML-driven engine that would allow their Flash designer to easily update the campaigns they wanted to showcase without having to get their hands dirty with Actionscript.
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Recent blog posts
- Pixel-perfect accuracy with FXG?I’ve been running some tests in Flex rendering FXG rects with a stroke to see if there’s a way to get the strokes to render inside the bounds of the object. I need this precision for a project I’m working on and unfortunately it doesn’t look good. All of these tests were done using some […]
- Flash Catalyst and the Designer/Developer workflowUploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! I drew this up recently to illustrate a proposed workflow for a project I’m working on. This is similar to the workflow as proposed by Adobe but with an extra level of respon […]
- Archiving and Unarchiving objects in Objective-CWoohoo … my first Objective-C related post! Ok, so this is nothing new but I thought I’d log a couple of things that caught me out as a NOOB to the whole iPhone development malarky. First off archiving your objects is a way of saving them to a property list file that sits on your […]
- Another custom Flex preloader but with RSL supportThis post has a great article on building a custom Flex preloader which also allows you to handle the progress of the runtime shared libraries that the Flex framework now loads into the users cache. The DownloadProgressBar component allows you to view the progress of the runtime shared libraries but be aware that it can […]
- Custom Preloader class for Flex appsI’ve blogged on this before but here’s an updated version of a custom preloader class that extends Sprite and loads in a MovieClip from a SWC to use as the animation and display the load progress. Custom preloader for Flexpackage com.cravens.nr.preloader { import com.cravens.nr.model.Config; […]
- Detecting when text has run into the end of a container in a TextFlow objectMore fun and games with the Text Layout Framework. So, I have a load of links being flowed one by one through a bunch of linked containers. I need to detect when a link reaches the end and has ‘overflowed’ so to speak. To do this you need to make sure your ContainerController objects have […]
