Agitated Observer

The not quite new ANZ logo

1 CommentNovember 9 | 2009

I know that it has been a couple of weeks now that the new ANZ logo was launched, but seriously what on earth were they smoking when they came up with this concept.

I’m guessing that it may be trying to represent people somehow in an abstract way, but to me it kind of looks like a birth canal. That probably says more about me than anything else but to go from what i believe to a strong existing identity to something that looks like it belongs in a sex education class seems more like a backwards step than a progressive movement, not to mention the cost of integration throughout the company which will cost to the sum of $15 million according to the news.com.au story linked.

Judging from some of the comments on the page and around the twitterverse, it hasn’t come off to a good start as yet. Maybe it will grow on people like some vaginal infection (I know, kind of crude but can’t get past that it still looks like a birth canal with the 2 legs in stirrups on either side)

Flash Word Counter

1 CommentSeptember 9 | 2009

Here’s a little app I developed in Adobe Flash that generates list of word occurrences for any given text. To use it, just copy and paste the text into the input field, click submit and the results will be displayed in a table which you then can copy the data into excel or wordpad.

I’m hoping to develop this further in the future so that its able to generate some interesting visualisations based on the results.

Please leave a comment if you have any ideas for improvement or notice any bugs.

Illustration Friday: Tango

AS3: Random Colour between 2 colour values

Alphabet Connected

Simple AS3 dynamic fonts class

1 CommentMay 26 | 2009

Simple class to include dynamic fonts in your flash movie. You can either compile this from your fav AS editor or apply it to an FLA as the document class.

To access the fonts, all you will need to is load in the generated swf into your project and use the fontName value you specify in the class to apply the appropriate font.

It’s also good practice to limit the unicode range to characters you need. Adobe provides a good reference, flash-unicode-table.xml, which you can find inside the Flex SDK 2/frameworks folder.

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package {

import flash.display.MovieClip;
import flash.text.Font;

public class Fonts extends MovieClip {
[Embed(source='C:/WINNT/fonts/DiCnBd.ttf', fontName='_dinBold', unicodeRange='U+0021-U+007A,U+00BB,U+00A9,U+2122,U+00AE')]
public static var _dinBold:Class;
Font.registerFont(_dinBold);
trace("_dinBold LOADED");

[Embed(source='C:/WINNT/fonts/arial.ttf',fontName='_Arial', unicodeRange='U+0021-U+007A,U+00BB,U+00A9,U+2122,U+00AE')]
public static var _Arial:Class;
Font.registerFont(_Arial);
trace("_Arial LOADED");

[Embed(source='C:/WINNT/fonts/arialbd.ttf', fontWeight= "bold",fontName='_ArialBold', unicodeRange='U+0021-U+007A,U+00BB,U+00A9,U+2122,U+00AE')]
public static var _ArialBold:Class;
Font.registerFont(_ArialBold);
trace("_ArialBold LOADED");

}
}