I am looking at the new package design of Windows 7 and I am contemplating. What is it supposed to tell me? It is green and in the upper left corner of the windows logo, there is a fir tree. In the upper right one, there is a shininess dazzling me. In the lower left [...]
Monthly Archives: October 2009
Pioneering Swabian Automakers, Once Again
Yesterday Lars Harmsen from Magma Brand Design gave the first of the Drop Shadow Talks. At the beginning he spoke about the visual enrichment of corporate identities. As it seems, especially the German automobile industry uses enrichment effects a lot. BMW, Audi, Opel, Volkswagen, they all updated their logotypes and corporate styles with drop shadows, [...]
The Drop Shadow Talks!
After this Drop Shadow Blog and the Drop Shadow Revolution, I am happy to announce The Drop Shadow Talks. These talks will deal with current developments on our desktops – mainly from an artistic point of view. In the shades of evening lectures the Drop Shadow Talks will present art and projects influenced and inspired [...]
Richer Interface in Rich iTunes
The panel used in iTunes to indicate artist, title and remaining time of a currently playing song became more smooth and anti-aliased during the years. Now with version 9 especially its progress bar became visually richer. A drop shadow was added also. I always had guessed the LED- or at least pixel-like indicator was ment [...]