design
Graphic and 3D design for cross-media publishing. This entails creating illustrations and imagery for printed publications as well as the web, and mobile devices. The section mainly discusses software that helps with the design process.
Dyson has won several awards worldwide for innovation and design. James Dyson himself has earned about a dozen honorary doctorates for his products’ design, his way of doing business and his inventions overall. Dyson, a Royal College of Art graduate, started the company with his name because of his aggravation with vacuum cleaners’ many technological design flaws.
Dyson is one of those rare designers who are changing the ways of an entire industry --the Dyson Cyclone vacuum cleaner is now being copied by a number of vacuum cleaner manufacturers.
Owning a Dyson vacuum cleaner myself, I was particularly interested in how Dyson designs his products. What I learnt was rather surprising. It turns out Dyson’s design successes depend far less on digital tools than one would imagine by looking at the innovations throughout the Dyson product range.
When Apple released its Aperture software, the presentation on the web site and the touted capabilities rose high expectations. During the past few days, those expectations have been subdued by bugs, performance issues and more nasty behaviour of Apple’s newest “Pro application”. Aperture turns out to be what I called it earlier on this site: a Digital Asset Management software with a high price tag. There is other DAM software available for Macs: Portfolio and iView are excellent examples of DAM programs which are suited to individual use.
In this comparative review, I’m comparing the three DAM solutions for the individual available for Mac OS X. Portfolio 8 has just been released, with iView Media Pro 3 hitting the streets a few weeks earlier. Let’s start with Portfolio.
Fireworks 8 is Macromedia’s last iteration of this vector-based bitmap editor for the web, forming part of Studio 8. The question is whether Fireworks is better than other editors for the purpose it’s been developed for. The new version probably is.
Carrara is Eovia’s 3D animation and modelling program. Carrara is especially well suited for 3D beginners, packaging, advertising, and to some extent multimedia. In the last few iterations of Carrara, Eovia expanded the program’s capabilities in more than one area. But the application itself largely remained the same. Carrara 5 is a break with the past. In more than one respect.
Wacom released the first wide-aspect ratio graphic tablet, the Intuos 3 6x11 model. This tablet suits double-monitor and 16:9 aspect monitors like Apple’s Cinema displays better. The tablet’s active area has the same aspect ratio as these screens; hence the active area covers the screen one-on-one. Wacom says an increasing number of graphics artists use such wide-aspect ratio screens, which was reason enough for them to release this tablet.
IconFactory has turned icon drawing into an art and a business. Icons are the visible tokens computer users rely on to see in a blink of an eye what a folder or a file relate to. Pixadex is the joint effort of IconFactory and Panic Software to manage icons.
Eovia, developer and publisher of leading 3D software tools, today introduced Carrara 5, the 3D solution. Carrara 5 delivers a robust suite of modelling, animation and rendering tools in a freshly updated user interface.
particleIllusion is a 2D particle effects application developed by wondertouch. With it you add visual effects to 3D animation, video, and images. It is not a plug-in, but a standalone program. This makes it possible to use it with the output of any 3D application, video files, or still images.
MotionBuilder, Alias’ 3D character building application has become more powerful, offering more integration with Maya 7, and many additional features in comparison with the previous version.
Eovia releases version 1.2 of its Hexagon 3D-modeling application on October 19. The update looks more like an upgrade, with plenty of new features and improvements. The update makes life even simpler than before.
Art and design, as we know, is not limited to the content you’re creating. It has everything to do with the packaging as well. There’s probably no computer vendor in the industry who is mastering this as well as Apple. Graphics designers, advertising people, video creatives and others often deliver their creative content in digital format, on a CD or DVD. Jewelboxing supports creative packaging for this purpose.
Alias, the 3D company being taken over by Autodesk, released Maya 7 some time ago. I had the chance to get to grasps with the new release and found it to be the best ever.
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