Ok, that’s not an application, or a new cool Web 2.0 initiative. Flori is the sweet, cute and innocent character of Vivek, which I missed when he first released. But definitely worth to see!
You can also download and use it on you mobile as a screensaver or wallpaper; just purchase it for a small fee here.
As a nice move, Vivek offers licensing of this character. Just get in touch with him.
Since the 24th of September 6 pm, the International Mobile Gaming Awards is closed for entries and prepares for the judging session, which will take place in Marseille next week. Before this, an international panel of judges, based in Japan, China, Korea, USA, France, UK, Germany and Italy will make a first pre-selection of the 80 best games.
These pre-selected games will then be presented in front of an international jury who gathers in a room in Marseille for a full day of judging. They will select five nominees in each of the 5 categories:
Excellence in Gameplay
Excellence in Connectivity
Excellence in 3D
Best IP-based game
Best Casual Game (developed in Flash, Java, etc.)
This year, the IMGA has focused on unpublished games and has requested more work and support material from developers as in the previous years. Despite these important restrictions the IMGA has received almost 400 entries from 33 countries. 45% of all entries came in from Europe, with the UK as the largest number of entries. 26% of the entries came from Asia, 17% from North America and 12% from the rest of the world.
“This edition is showing a further growth in professionalism and quality worldwide and some astonishing innovations that we can’t wait to disclose to a wider audience, after the judging sessions. We have seen new work of both
the established studios as of small studios and individuals. Excellent work came in from all over the world in all categories: amazing 3D games, clever connected games, cross platform games, but also many Flash games looking a
lot better than the ones we saw last year.” Says Maarten Noyons, founder and managing director of the IMGA.
The IMGA is sponsored by Adobe, Movida, Nokia and co-sponsored by NVIDIA, Qualcomm, Belle-de-Mai Media Park, Marseille and AMD.
I am already following Crestock to get my free image everyday. It’s always good to keep some licensed images under your belt. I figured out there are also some really nice wallpapers given away free on there. Don’t miss, just grab them.
Nigel posted a simple tutorial on how to make transparent favicons on Augnofi forums. It’s quite handy in case you are lazy to dig the web to figure out how to do it.
We are proud to announce the launch of Adobe User Group Northern Finland: Augnofi!
We aim to create a warm, active and creative community on the top of the world, spreading our energy to the rest of the world. Global contests, live and online seminars, cool workshops and interviews with the experts from the heart of mobile technology are in our future program.
Spread the word; don’t forget to check it out and join! All welcome!
4 new video tutorials for Adobe Device Central CS3.
Using the Device Central workspace
Understand the Device Central workspace and learn how to set preferences, work with device profiles, and create new mobile documents. Find out how to search for devices and take advantage of device profiles and sets in the workspace, including how to create a new device set and use the Search Devices filter.
Using Device Central with Photoshop
Discover how to use Device Central with Photoshop to create new mobile files, modify mobile content, test it in Device Central, and return to Photoshop to further modify your work.
Creating mobile content in Flash
Find out how to create mobile content using Flash and how to test it in Device Central.
Creating mobile content in Illustrator
Learn how to create mobile content in Illustrator and preview it in Device Central, including how to make adjustments to the illustration, and test it using different settings.
Stripes are a new trend in design, as well as reflections. Many designers use these patterns in different phases of their designs, sometimes combining all together. We also use stripes in our designs often. Before, we used to create our stripes manually, however recently we found a nice online tool to generate stripes automatically, and it really became handy. Meet StripeGenerator; an AJAX diagonal (although it says diagonal, you can change orientation easily) stripes background designer, if you haven’t met already. Easy to use and get results.
Vivek recently posted small tips about creating Flash Lite wallpapers and a small but useful template. For now there is only 240×320 resolution template for Series 40, but he promises more soon.
Motorola unveiled their new device MS800 in Korean market. Interesting part is; it has Flash Lite user interface, that I am looking forward to see more examples. Here you can see the preview, looks very creative and impressing. As far as I could get, Flash UI is to be downloaded, which also makes me think if there will be different user interfaces to download as user wishes.
via Mobilewhack
This document explains the basic principles of visualization and graphic design, and provides examples of good and bad design. The document discusses graphic design for the mobile world, for example, colors, contrast, animation, and icon design, and gives tips on how to make the most of the small screen of a mobile device. The example images relate to the S60 platform and the QVGA display resolution, but the same design principles can be applied to virtually any mobile platform, device, or display.
