Come One, Come All - CoLab Open House
Posted by derekbender | Filed under Orlando
One of the little perks of working at NFi is the ability to work on projects like this. CoLab, if you haven’t heard, is the home for those wanting to have an office in downtown Orlando while collaborating in an environment built for innovation. Creatives, developers, freelancers and independents will now have a cheap alternative to their own home office, but it’s also more than that too. CoLab adds a way for like-minded people to connect, network and collaborate. Read the rest of this entry »
Cool Color App - In the Mod
Posted by derekbender | Filed under Design, Technology
I’m a reader of the online blog Neu Black, so when they featured In The Mod, an application that helps to create brand new color palettes with the drag and drop of an image, I took notice. The application is based in Adobe Air and also needs Adobe Switchboard to work but once its up and running, its a great, minimalistic app that is extremely useful for designers.
Ever have an image that has great colors that you’d like to create a color palette from for your next project? The old way to make a palette would be to take it into Photoshop and manually sample colors. In The Mod makes this simple. Just drag the pic you would like to sample into the window, set the number of colors you’d like to pull from it and thats it. And by pressing a button you can export the full palette into Photoshop or Illustrator. I’m really excited to play with this more for upcoming projects. The app has a few different editions but the one I’m currently using is the Your Images Edition.
Note: Thanks to Meagan Fisher for the sweet ampersand desktop.
Interactive Expedition Launches
Posted by derekbender | Filed under News, Technology
Last week I finished work on the Wordpress site for Interactive Expeditions. It was my most complex design to date and it turned out great. Wordpress made this site buildout quicker than the typical website plus its a great CMS for that clients who need a simple CMS for easy updating.
Interactive Expeditions offers a revolutionary means of experiential teaching and learning through an immersive, real-time, interactive platform that links geographically remote expedition teams with any web-connected student/participant worldwide.
Simply it links teachers with students. But the cool part is that the teacher is is Bermuda… in a cave… 400 feet underground. The realtime video application that NFi Studios helped to create works to connect students with the experts while they are in the field.
To learn more about Interactive Expeditions and find out about their current trip to Bermuda, check out this Orlando Sentinel article. Also check out interactiveexpedition.com.
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