My beloved monster – from sketch to final

(download the final as wallpaper)

(download the final as wallpaper)

Pinup Tattoo 1 – sketch

Pinup Tattoo 1 – final

Pinup Tattoo 2 – sketch

Pinup Tattoo 2 – final

A couple of doodles

See more of his work on his website www.edouardrelou.eu

The traffic you gain by social networks can be viewed with Google analytics via the feature “Advanced Segments”.

Follow these steps:

1. Go to Advanced segments to create a new segment

2. Create a new segment

- For the dimension click traffic sources > than drag the item “Source” to the segment.
- Fill in for condition: “Matches regular expression”.
- The value field needs to contain the social network names. For example:

digg|twitter|linkedin|myspace|facebook|stumbleupon

(the sources you want to analyze need to be seperated by | )

- Name the segment, something like “Social” and finally click the “Create Segment” button.

Put it into work
Once the segment is created you can use it in your dashboard and compare your social network traffic to other traffic you have (for example search traffic). On top of the graphs you will see an advanced segments dropdown to select the segment you just created.

1. BBC iPlayer Commercial

2. Berlitz Thinking

3. Robinsons be natural

4. Tide interview

5. Orange: The toys for grown-ups

6. Make it doable

7. La Poste: Transformer

8. Heineken: Housewarming

9. Duracell: Bunny Fusion

10. Washington Lottery: Birds

Resources

Why make a background pattern yourself if they´re already there? It can save you lots of time. Just check out these pattern resources:

1. Ava 7 patterns

2. Everyday icons

3. k10k Pixel Paterns

4. Pixel decor

5. Pattern 8

6. DIN pattern

7. Milleseicentopercento

8. Colour lovers

9. Squid fingers

10. KOLOR media

Tools

These online generators will make the pattern for you.

1. Stripe generator 2.0

2. Stripemania

3. Background dotter by pixelknetes

4. Striped backgrounds

5. Tartan maker

6. BG patterns

1. Denis Rouvre

2. Andreas Smetana

3. Nicolas Henri

4. Jill Greenberg – Manipulator

5. Koen Demuynk

6. Dave Hill

7. Christophe Huet

8. Michael Muller

9. Levon Biss

10. Matt Stuart

This time they’ve build an interactive version of the popular Web Trend Map. It’s now possible to get a personalised version of the webtrend map based on your interest.

Get one here: www.webtrendmap.com

Augmented Reality? Huh?
AR is a technology that’s finding it’s way into the world of ICT and advertising. AR is a workfield that enables it to add digital content such as images/video/3d animations virtually to the real-world. Mostly this is done by using a webcam and your monitor or your cellphone. To understand what AR is it’s best to show you a demo.

On internet there are lots of examples and live demos of Augmented Reality. I recently showed one to my friends and they were amazed. Reason enough for me to dive into the technology behind it. Finally I ended up by making an AR demo for this blog:

AR demo
To see the demo in action you will need a printer and a webcam.

Follow these steps to see the demo:

1. Print this .pdf file
2. Make sure your webcam is connected to your computer.
3. Click this link to open the demo window.
4. It will ask you to allow the webcam to have access. Allow it.
5. Once you see yourself through the webcam, hold the paper in front of the webcam and watch.

Notes: make sure there’s enough light in the room. If you can’t see the magic, try to lay down the paper and point your webcam to it.

The demo was build with the Flartoolkit by Saqoosha.