Yesterday Karussellblog was launched. It features articles on event design and brand communications, architecture, art and interactive installations. In my capacity as “interface artist” I mainly will write about the correlation of virtual and real space, especially graphical user interfaces and visual pop culture. To stress the three-dimensionality of the subject matter designer Dan Nommensen [...]
Monthly Archives: August 2009
BVG Shadows 67/68
In my post on “Windows 68” I wrote that we hardly used any drop shadow effects for this revolutionary version of an early operating system. I guess we all regarded the drop shadow effect as an accomplishment of the digital age. It certainly is. Yet I was startled when discovering a “broken” version of a [...]
Fold-Out Shadow
Just in case, if there ever was a “Drop Shadow Book”, I think it should have a printed drop shadow on the inside back cover to fold out.