Frank Prendergast Web Design

Lego, Dinosaurs, creativity, and the youth of today

Feb 2nd, 2012

Saw this Lego product today while browsing Lego toys, and it got me musing over the ever increasing move toward ready made pieces and away from the old school bricks I loved when I was growing up. Admittedly, even the Lego I loved had horses and certain Space Lego pieces that weren’t strictly old school… but where should the line be drawn to encourage creativity in the use of Lego and not just prescribed scenarios?

Also that’s not a skirt that’s a belt, and do they really call that noise music?

Google, you big web bully you, hands off my design

Jan 25th, 2012

Google themselves can be extremely ad heavy before the fold

What are the implications of Google’s “page layout algorithm” and could it herald a whole new way in which Google intends to dictate how websites should be designed, developed and function?

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Historic Superheroes

Jan 17th, 2012

Series of photos of superheroes and villains paling their role in history… check out other interesting series in Agan Harahap’s Flickr stream. Via demiliked.

Glitchr – FaceBook Art

Jan 13th, 2012

“Zakas essentially “paints” with Unicode, combining its non-character entities to break layout engines — creating what might just be society’s most obscure and recent art form.“

via Techcrunch. Glitchr FaceBook page

Year Of The Glitch

Jan 10th, 2012

Phillip Stearns is creating a glitchy image a day for a year by preparing cameras to malfunction and publishing the results. Check it out.

via Boing Boing

It’s All Over Now Baby Blue

Jan 6th, 2012

Hope you had a good Christmas, an excellent New Year and that 2012 is one to look forward to.

Matta – Release The Freq

Jan 6th, 2012

Matta - Release The Freq from Kim Holm on Vimeo.

Gorgeous video for Release The Freq by Matta, Direction, Design, Cinematography, Editing, 3D & Animation by Kim Holm. Found via Brendan Canty of Feel Good Lost on the FaceBook.