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Space Time Play, A Catalog of How Video Games Change Our Landscape

October 15th, 2007 · No Comments

Space Time Play — Computer Games, Architecture and Urbanism: The Next Level
» Book Website (spacetimeplay.org)
» Table of Contents (PDF)
» Introduction (PDF)
Available to the US in November 2007 from Birkhäuser and edited by Friedrich von Borries, Steffen P. Walz, Matthias Böttger, Space Time Play — Computer Games, Architecture and Urbansim: The Next Level offers readers 62 [...]

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Adobe Case Study Published

October 3rd, 2007 · No Comments

Web Ink for Mobile Media Curriculum
Adobe published a case study on my work with students at Parsons Communication Design & Technology in the area of mobile media design.

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Tags: Press

Packing Lite: A Mobile Media Interface Design Primer

August 27th, 2007 · No Comments

Article Published on Adobe Developer Center Introducing Design Principles for Flash Lite
Read Packing Lite: A mobile media interface design primer on Adobe’s Developer Center to get my perspective how to adapt to directional-pad based devices in Flash Lite. I detail the process of transferring SWF files to Nokia Series 60 devices and analyze a 4-way [...]

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Tags: Technical

Adobe DevNet Article Publishing Soon

August 17th, 2007 · No Comments

Article to be published on Adobe Developer Center
Packing Lite: Getting Started Designing Interfaces for Mobile Media
I wrote an article/tutorial for Adobe’s Developer Center to be published at the end of August covering how to get started designing interfaces in Flash Lite on Nokia Series 60 devices. It details how to get equipped for mobile media [...]

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Tags: Technical

New ‘Processing’ Handbook Looks Amazing

July 18th, 2007 · No Comments

Eagerly Awaiting Book Release; Creators Release Substantial Sample Chapters.
For the uninitiated, Processing→ is an open interactive media platform published on free software license via MIT by Casey Reas→ and Ben Fry→. Originally created as a learning tool, it is maturing through a Beta phase currently while winning tremendous support within the academic and design [...]

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