Design Articles


Articles
As part of participating in the design community, there have been a number of design related articles submitted to sites such as Creative Bits. Here are a selection of them archived for your viewing. If you wish to reproduce these articles please give credit to www.afterglow.ie or www.creativebits.org as the source.

There will be ongoing updates to this page as more articles are posted to CreativeBits and this site. If you have a question about a particular article, drop me an email through the contact form.

This is as close as I will probably get to an ongoing blog as work constraints mean it would just descend into showing you pictures of a cat instead of content. And I don't have a cat so that pretty much seals the deal.

Altering the Pattern
Shapes & Styles Redux
(18th April 2006)
More tips for vector joy in the land of Photoshop.
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Wacom Keyfob: Anatomy of an Icon Altering the Pattern
Wacom: Widescreen Tablet
(24th January 2006)
A review of the Intous3 A5 Widescreen tablet.
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Keyfob: Anatomy of an Icon
(5th December 2005)
Building an Icon from sketchpad to Applications folder.
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Altering the Pattern
(21st Novmeber 2005)
Ruts, Routines and why we never
fall backwards on stairs.
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Custom Shapes Textpander and Mail Tip Designers Bible
Custom Shapes/Layer Styles
(11th Ocotber 2005)
An overview of the graphic technique of using custom shapes and layer styles in Photoshop.
[Read More] 		Textpander & Mail Tip
(28th Septmber 2005)
A combined tip for inserting common text strings and sending group emails in Mail on OS X.
[Read More] 		The Digital Designer's Bible
(2nd Septmber 2005)
An excellent book covering the common issues facing designers today.
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Desk - Rethinking the Finder Coverflow Freelancing across Timezones

Desk - Rethinking the Finder (25th August 2005)
What if the Finder and Desktop became more than friends?
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Coverflow
(10th August 2005)
An innovative method of browsing iTunes by artwork.
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Freelancing across Timezones
(2th August 2005)
A quick method for seeing which continent is on lunch and which is snoring loudly.
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Sexy Widget Paegant One Computer Bluetooth Zombie

Sexy Widget Paegant 2005
(12th July 2005)
The CreativeBits competition for the widget that would get the most wolf whistles.
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One Computer to Rule them All
(7th July 2005)
With Apple's move to Intel, the prospect of a triple boot computer gets closer.
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Mac = Bluetooth Zombie
(21th Jun 2005)
Bluetooth Remotes for iTunes, Keynote & DVD Player are now at your fingertips.
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Queer Eye for the Toolbar Guy Dog Excercising Machine Fire Up FTP

Queer Eye for the Toolbar Guy (12th May 2005)
NetNewsWire gets a makeover from the fabuolus five (fingers).

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The Dog Excercising Machine (25th April 2005)
Edward De Bono thinks children and dogs hold the key to creative thinking. He may very well be right.
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Fire Up FTP
(17th April 2005)
A quicker method for shuttling files to your server with the contextual menu.
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Afterglow (Icon Design & Illustration)
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