http://www.brondbjerg.net/blog Freelance Design & Development Team: Mike Brondbjerg & Polly Vinyard Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:05:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ever wondered where all our stuff comes from and goes to... and why we buy it all in the first place, well check this out... http://www.storyofstuff.com/  Great site, great animation, great message... http://www.brondbjerg.net/blog/?p=29 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), ... http://www.brondbjerg.net/blog/?p=28 Yesterday, Adobe revealed to the world what features the, soon to be released, Creative Suite 4 would contain, and it seems pretty good. While not as exciting as the previous CS3 release perhaps, this release builds strongly on their existing tech and makes some real improvements in work flow and ... http://www.brondbjerg.net/blog/?p=24 Polly & I both attended the 2nd meeting of the Tunbridge Wells Media Business Networking group 'Meejahub' last night at Thorins. It was a nice group and they were kind enough to let us 'gate crash' at the last minute, and we're not even paid up members... so thanks to them ... http://www.brondbjerg.net/blog/?p=23 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 ... http://www.brondbjerg.net/blog/?p=21 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 ... http://www.brondbjerg.net/blog/?p=20 As some of you may have seen in the news today, a mystery monkey appeared in the Tokyo subway. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7572113.stm After being stared at and chased a bit, it legged it and disappeared into the Tokyo Underground (a bit like the A-Team). Well I think we've found him... Cheers Mike ;) http://www.brondbjerg.net/blog/?p=18 The BBC has launched this really great little AIR application for the Olympics. AIR is Adobe's Desktop application platform for which you can create content in Flash, Flex & Dreamweaver etc. This brings in RSS news feeds from your chosen Olympic sports.   It features characters from "Monkey" as designed by Jamie Hewlett which look great with ... http://www.brondbjerg.net/blog/?p=16 Andy at Zone Magazine has done it again.. another great issue! Download it form www.zone-magazine.com... Mike http://www.brondbjerg.net/blog/?p=14 Ever wanted to know, where you find the time to fit in all those things you wished you'd done? This man has the answer... Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody... I will be watching less TV tonight... ;) Mike http://www.brondbjerg.net/blog/?p=13