James Freeman Gets a Makeover 12.04.2009
The Law Offices of James Freeman, P.C., is a firm advocating for the rights of cyclists and pedestrians in Chicago. James Freeman's clients are the bike commuter who is hit by a cab and the pedestrian who is injured while crossing the street.
I recently had the pleasure of providing a visual makeover for the site that hosts his blog and represents his firm on the web.
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Dynamic Drawing and Animation 10.22.2009
Lately I've been playing around with some code-generated drawing and animation. The following is a tutorial describing how I created a tree that sways in the wind. The user generates a small but powerful source of wind by clicking and dragging around the stage.
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New Dragons Power Up! Posters 09.20.2009
St. Paul band Dragons Power Up! recently released a new record and I recently finished printing some new posters for them.Here are four variations.
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Music: Two New Tracks 08.01.2009
I've been working on a series of tracks that are all built up from a single click sample. The sample is filtered, shaped and resampled to make a wide variety of sounds. You may now hear drafts of two of these tracks, Chickpea and Bocce Ball, in the Sound section of sethmabbott.com. Let me know what you think.
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The Grace of Falling vs Aliens! 05.09.2009
Lately I've been working on some artwork for the Minneapolis band The Grace of Falling. I've been talking with the band about what sort of visual identity they would like to have. We started out with mathematical symbols and gravitated toward the triangle of dots which symbolize "therefore". This branched out in a number of directions. At the moment I'm working on what has turned into the "ancient alien amplifier knobs" or "flux capacitor" direction.
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Lost and Found Music: Draft for Caleb 05.02.2009
I was poking around some old files and came across this track I made for a friend of mine for his birthday. If I remember correctly it is made up of appropriated sounds from a track of his that he had sent me. Credit goes to Caleb Coppock for the source material. Listen
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The I.D.E.S. of April 04.17.2009
I recorded a short dj mix today in honor of the Illinois Department of Employment Security. It includes some old favorites and a track or two that I didn't know I had.Read More »
Patterns 04.17.2009
I just uploaded a new set of images. These are sketches of patterns which will eventually make there way into a screen printed book.
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Pool Party: Playing with Physics in Flash 02.15.2009
Part 1 of a 3 part tutorial on physics for flash games. Originally posted on the Killswitch Collective Blog.I thought this would be a good opportunity to put together the first Killswitch multi-part flash tutorial. In this tutorial we'll build a simple but highly customizable billiards game... more
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Creating Communicative UI 11.30.2008
Originally posted on the Killswitch Collective Blog.Actually, I'd prefer that people would forget tag clouds. I'm tired of tag clouds. Granted, a tag cloud is intended to digest data into a more immediately understandable form, but in most cases it comes out as the sort of thing that makes typographers cry... more.
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