I have recently discovered that if you need to embed a large number of characters form a distressed font into flash, ready for use in dynamic text fields, they can swell your file size quite considerably.

So here is a possible solution… Just use a clean font (which is much smaller), create your text field within a MovieClip, and then apply a tiled mask of distortion texture across the front of it.

I have just put a demo of this in our labs page… http://www.brondbjerg.co.uk/pages/labs.asp

Could be useful!!!

Mike

We have just launched a new flash site for Simmer Ltd.

Simmer Ltd, are a specialist branding & design consultancy working within the food & drink industry.

We were commissioned to bring Simmer’s innovative site design to life using a combination of Flash, XML, ASP & SQL Server.

The site is a presentation of Simmer’s extensive portfolio of work and is completely CMS driven allowing Simmer to keep it constantly up to date.

A custom window navigation system was conceived and built to allow simple & clean navigation through the clients and projects.

The site also encourages the user to make comments on any of the work they see, to add depth and discussion to the content.

Finally we incorporated a ‘Share This’ button into the site, allowing you to share & bookmark the site… not something often seen within the flash environment.

Take a look at the site at www.tasteofsimmer.com…

Zone Magazine September issue is now out and this month there is a new way to enjoy this great publication.

Issuu is a publication library that provides a really neat Flash document viewer. We have embedded the Issuu viewer into the website so you can view the magazine online as well as download it. It provides a really intuative way to navigate the magazine.

We think Issuu is far more elegant and robust than the many other Flash book viewers we’ve come across and tried to integrate. They even provide an easy to generate Widget to help advertise your latest publication on Facebook etc. (see below)

Check out the latest issue of Zone here: http://www.zone-magazine.com/latest/online.asp

And take a look at Issuu: http://issuu.com/

Get your own - Open publication

Andy at Zone Magazine has done it again.. another great issue!

Download it form www.zone-magazine.com…

Mike

This week, we have updated our portfolio with some of the work we’ve been doing over the past few months. Thanks to all the agencies that have kindly allowed us to show the work we have been doing for them. There have been some great projects recently and we are really excited about showing them off.
Also, Mike has added his new Widget to the labs page, so go and have a play. More to come in the lab soon, so keep ‘em peeled..

Polly