Polar Bear Cam Nominated for Site of the Day “Awwward”
Recently Bio Design was nominated for the Site of the Day award on prestigious web design award site Awwwards. The site aims to promote the best designers and agencies in the world. Their panel of judges includes some of the very best and brightest designers working today. Bio is proud to have been nominated.
Bio was nominated for The Polar Bear Cam, a site which opens a window into the lives of polar bears with live HD streaming video from the tundra.
The slick design features a 3D rendered topographic landscape including a 3D rendered Tundra Buggy that follows you down the page and even a helicopter that flies overhead.
No comments‘The Hit List’ a great GTD Mac app
As a website designer inundated with emails, phone calls, proposals, estimates, it all starts to become a big stressful mess and confusion. Managing all those tasks and making sure nothing slips between that cracks can be a challenge. As my company continues to grow the number of projects we are working on at one time starts to get a bit overwhelming and that is where this fantastic GTD (Getting Things Done ) App comes a long and saves the day.
The Hit List a simple, fun and intuitive Mac app (still in Beta) has taken all the confusion out of multi-tasking. I enter in my daily, weekly or monthly tasks, organize them into folders and The Hit List keeps track of what items are coming up due and which items are re-occuring. The cool thing about The Hit List is its keyboard shortcut features which stream lines the task-entering process. If you are a web designer or web developer looking for a great GTD app I suggest you check out The Hit List.
No commentsMaiko Watson – Sweet Vibration Album Design
I had the amazing pleasure of designing Maiko’s debut album Sweet Vibration for her cd release concert in November of 2009. She had just finished recording and mastering her album over the summer but hadn’t finalized her cd artwork yet which was the only thing holding her back from her launch. After listening to her album over the summer I started to get a concept direction and a feeling of the type of look she was going for. Maiko has a real classic soul sound reminiscent of Patti LaBelle and Gladys Knight and I wanted to convey that classic retro 30’s era jazz look and feel, that kind of ‘Golden Era’ of music when woman were just becoming independent in the music industry. With deep rich brown’s and metallic gold inflections, I was able to create a very simple, modest but refined album cover and CD to create a design that was reflective of Maiko’s sound and soul.
It was a great experience working on my first album and a great pleasure to work with Maiko. She has a real feel for creative design and color which made the collaborative effort and real joy and I am thankful that she was happy with the results. If you’d like to hear Maiko’s album or buy a copy of it, it is available for purchase on iTunes.
Maiko Watson a talented R&B music artist from Winnipeg released her debut album Sweet Vibration November 2009 in Toronto @ The Rivoli.