TOKI WOKI. 

I just launched a Tum­blr about the font cre­ation process I recently started. Should be inter­est­ing to any­one lov­ing fonts as I will study some of their aspects and be as visual as I can. Should be.

Here it is, folks: Type Tip. Learn more on the About page.

As a free­lancer I mostly work on AIR apps, but when friends asked me to develop their new web­site I hap­pily jumped aboard!

Le bureau baroque is an archi­tec­ture agency in Bor­deaux; play­ing with art, design and — of course — archi­tec­ture. They’re the ones that set up the Pecha Kucha event in Bor­deaux and who invited me to show off a bit! Of course they work on lots of other great projects so they needed a site to let the world know what’s up.

They wanted a highly visual site that would be easy to update, we con­sid­ered a few options but quickly came to the con­clu­sion that Index­hibit was exactly what we were look­ing for. But one thing that was really bug­ging us is how most (if not all) Index­hibit sites look the same. Indeed they’re a great way to show big images and the nav­i­ga­tion is damn sim­ple, but hey, why not keep these great qual­i­ties but in a more orig­i­nal layout?

Since we’re really keen on hor­i­zon­tal lay­outs we went for this. But some­thing both­ers me with this: you get a hor­i­zon­tal scroll­bar at the bot­tom of the page; which is hard to see, because it sits at the bot­tom of your screen and we — dumb humans — are not really used to it. So I thought: why not have a hor­i­zon­tal lay­out scrolled by a ver­ti­cal scroll­bar? That seemed a bit tricky at first, for two reasons:

1. Is that tech­ni­cally feasible?
2. Isn’t that too weird, for the end-user?

Both ques­tions could not be answered with­out try­ing, so I tried. And it looked cool!

When the pro­to­type was ready I started tak­ing a look at Indexhibit’s guts; and although it looked a bit ugly to me, I real­ized pimp­ing it was no big deal… A few e-mails and burger-meetings after we were happy with the newly cre­ated theme. Chris­telle Bon­net helped out with her great typographic/balance eye and we were ready to go!

Go see the site live, enjoy those nice projects, play with that side-scroll con­cept and tell me what you think!

Just came back from a California-Nevada-Arizona trip!

Want a quick and abstract selec­tion of pics or some­thing more thor­ough? Help yourself.

My first iPhone app is finally online!

edu­Mon­key is an iPhone ver­sion of an old toy that we (at edu­Me­dia) love and first con­verted to a Flash sim­u­la­tion…

The (free) app is both an addi­tion and a mul­ti­pli­ca­tion table ; giv­ing you (in the hands of the mon­key) the result of the oper­a­tion between 2 num­bers (under the feet). Sim­ply drag the feet and see the result. Noth­ing too crazy but hey, it’s my first app!

Go get it, fool!

Show it to your teacher, talk about it to your pals, have fun with it and share thoughts… Because I love feedback.

By the way, I dis­cov­ered this toy via Cuarto Derecha, thanks buddies!

Hi there!

I’ve been quiet for some time because my lap­top died with­out warn­ing… But hap­pily I’m back with a brand new one (with Vista, ouch!) and just took time to enhance this blog a bit!

First of all I’ve updated the theme’s code so the HTML out­put is cleaner. Nobody cares, but I do.

Then, I’ve devel­oped a func­tion­al­ity that will allow me (and oth­ers?) to make this blog more active: Link dump. It’s still empty for the moment, but don’t worry it should fill quite quick!

Basi­cally it allows me to only post links and mys­te­ri­ous titles… No extra words, no image, just a sim­ple link. Click at your own risks.

These links will also pop in your feed reader and to make them look dif­fer­ent their title will be pre­fixed with a funny ∗ char­ac­ter. This is also true for the blog, here’s how it will look like:

You’ll still be able to com­ment on the links like you do on reg­u­lar posts…

Glad to be back!

Quick post: great news!

You can now access my MP3s via a pod­cast avail­able on iTunes!

Go sub­scribe!

My first, quick and wack font made with FontStruct. Go get it! As you’ll notice, upper-cases look bet­ter than lower ones. And, many glyphs are missing…

You’ll love it.

via.

Here is a selec­tion of links to nice graphic stuff…

Erosie, one of my favourite graf­fiti artist has a nice “super inter­view” on Fontanel, it’s a two-parter: part 1+part2. You prob­a­bly won’t under­stand a word (like me) but you surely will love the pics!

Damien Cor­rell has a really beau­ti­ful port­fo­lio that you should check! You can find some of his works on shirts at Thread­less or Con­stance Cloth­ing.

Some­one called Bnice2mice knits cute faces.

Sofie Han­ni­bal draws CD cov­ers, fly­ers and things like that. Go see her GIF films!

I hope you enjoyed. Got more? Please share!