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Posted By erik on April 14th, 2010

http://blog.eerkmans.nl/?p=241

Me and the guys from Bureau BlauwGeel have been working together on their new website: http://www.bureaublauwgeel.nl
 

The CMS-based website uses video files to create a dynamic, living and breathing background.

Each menu item has a background image that slowly zooms in to keep that dynamic feel.
 
Although the background and interface always adjust to the size of [...]

 
Posted By erik on June 9th, 2010

One of my hobby projects is building a tourist map of Tokyo. I started out with displaying a RSS feed from Google Maps on my own hand-drawn map of Tokyo. Even though the Google Maps API now allows custom coloring of your map, I still think google’s maps are overpopulated with information and are visually [...]

Posted By erik on April 14th, 2010

http://blog.eerkmans.nl/?p=241

Me and the guys from Bureau BlauwGeel have been working together on their new website: http://www.bureaublauwgeel.nl
 

The CMS-based website uses video files to create a dynamic, living and breathing background.

Each menu item has a background image that slowly zooms in to keep that dynamic feel.
 
Although the background and interface always adjust to the size of [...]

Posted By erik on April 14th, 2010

The Twitterfountain project has been online for more than 2 years, and has seen many changes. Recently we upgraded to version 2.0, a huge upgrade that has been getting lots of attention. When reading user feedback and watching our Google Analytics, it became clear that the interface could use some clarification, and doesn’t need some [...]

Posted By erik on March 3rd, 2010

Another new exciting project I’m working on is the newspaper editor. This project is built for dutch newspapers (starting with the Leeuwarder Courant) who want to make their archived frontpages available and customizable.

The idea is that you select the newspaper frontpage of your favourite date (say your birthdate). You will be presented with the real [...]

Posted By erik on March 3rd, 2010

When searching around the web for a Caroussel (rotating images) I found that most existing caroussel components use linear animation and mostly aren’t clickable. To make a more versatile class I copied the basic rotation functions from an existing caroussel, I added the greensock tweening class and made the items clickable.

There’s still a small [...]

Posted in AS3
Posted By erik on February 17th, 2010

Yesterday we presented the “Youth Participation” arcade machine to the kids at the Leon van Gelder, who literally stormed the machine to test it the hard way! In the end we got a few nice recordings of kids telling the local politicians what THEY wanted to see different. More video’s after the big debate at [...]

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