We all love a good viral ad as much as the next guy, and when it’s Boris Johnson popping some moves – what could be better?
Brilliant Viral Ad – The mayor gets some air!
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Selling my T-Mobile G1
I’m selling my T-Mobile G1/HTC Dream in average condition. There’s some scratches on the screen, and the camera mirror at the back is cracked, but this does not affect its usability at all. It runs the popular Android operating system, so you can browse the internet, send and receive email, and install applications from the Android market including Facebook, Skype, Photoshop Mobile, and Google Maps. It even works with Google Navigation, which turns the phone into a super useful sat-nav unit! My favourite feature, that I really miss on my new phone, is that this has a proper slide out QWERTY keyboard. It’s really fast and easy to type out long emails.
It comes in its original box, complete with all bundled accessories; soft case, manuals, USB cable, CD, charger and a huge aftermarket Sandisk 8GB memory card. I carefully modified the bundled earphones to make an adapter so you can use your own earphones with the phone, and it works great for music with an application like Spotify.
The winning bidder can choose between the standard operating system installed on the phone, or, at no cost, I’ll install the latest Android 2.2 update from Cyanogen for extra features over standard.
Please note this phone is currently locked to the T-Mobile network, but can be easily unlocked to any UK network for a small charge.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260692996658
The Christmas Cards have arrived!
And they look awesome!
In fact, they look so awesome, we felt we had to share them with you (plus, we bought far too many.) Screen printed on ridiculously thick 400GSM silk coated artboard and supplied with cool contrasting lemon yellow envelopes, they’ll take pride of place on the mantelpiece (at least the designers’ ones!)
Don’t buy the Disengage font from Flyerfonts/Houseind…
Disengage by Flyerfonts
Helvetidoodle by Ed T... Pretty similar eh? Just saying...
…Until you’ve tried Helvetidoodle! I just discovered houseind.com sells a font called Disengage, that looks very close to my own free font, Helvetidoodle. I’m pretty sure this is a coincidence and I’d definitely not seen this font before now, but if you’re thinking of buying Disengage, you may as well try Helvetidoodle first as it’s free for personal and commercial use, and comes with a pretty wide character set.
mod-pagespeed review
before mod-pagespeed
after mod-pagespeed
At Townend we tested mod-pagespeed, the new module from Google, and found an average 20% speed improvement across the sites we tested. As expected, there’s little performance gain on already heavily optimised code but the slightly scrappier code on this website produced the highest gain in speed of 33.6%.
Read our full review of mod-pagespeed here.
Update – since we wrote the review, the module has been causing random crashes so we have temporarily disabled it while we investigate further to avoid any downtime.
Barnsley Landscape Panorama
Only just got round to posting these two panoramas taken from the very top of the Gateway Plaza off Summer Lane. The panoramas were created using as many as seven photos each, painstakingly invisibly stitched together, and as a result are a massive 9957×2996 and 8896×3230 pixels respectively.
Licensing and prints are available at fair prices – contact eddie@teamtownend.com for details. Why aren’t I CC licensing these panoramas like I always do my photography? I thought these, being of a specific time and place, may be of real value to the right person. And I can’t just give stuff away all the time.
Photos are also on flickr.com: North and South
Barnsley North
Barnsley South
Christmas is coming!
Having great fun designing the Townend Christmas cards – here’s a bit of a teaser:
What am I up to now?
I’ve not posted in a while, and that’s because I’ve been busy setting up my new company Townend Creative Limited. The concept is that the most important element of a long-term company is its brand. In my experience graphic designers tend to forget this while trying to inject their own personality, so Townend aims to rectify this. The website is online, so you’re welcome to have a peek, but don’t be disappointed if there’s a bit missing because it’s still a work in progress! The cool thing about the website is that there’s just one image in the entire template, the rest is real text generated by cufon MyFont.com’s Web API, turns out cufon can crash Firefox if there’s too much text on a page.
There’ll be another post all about the composition of the website and how it’s the best thing since sliced bread, but this is to let you know I’m still here, still working hard in the creative sector!
I wish this man was my Maths teacher
Oliver Steele turns algebra into graphic representations. This is an interesting example of using graphics to communicate something that isn’t there. I wish he’d been my Maths teacher.
Update to sync review
Just after I wrote the review of Windows Live Sync, it turned out it’s been renamed to Live Mesh and the storage has been increased from 2GB to 5. I’ve not tried this new version, so I don’t know if it suffers from the same problem I found.