So I have been a little preoccupied of late… spending quite a bit of time working on Snowpool. It has been fun.. there’s now an Android App… which has been the fruit of quite a bit of labour. If you do have an Android Phone.. it would be most appreciated if you’d download it and preferably give it a review (the more favourable the better.. ;)
I will be doing a presentation to the local Ruby on Rails group here in ChCh about it.. which frankly has me slightly freaked out. I’d not realised just how absolutely impressive some of these people are (building the major Refinery CMS for one). In comparison my little app is very plain. Still… it was fun. I used Phone Gap to build the application.. it allows you to right straight HTML & CSS & JavaScript and it compiles to a native app.. very nice. I layered mine on top of JQuery mobile. If you want to .. you can download the whole code on GitHug. And yes, I had to write a little bit of an API for snowpool to make this work.. now.. to document the damn thing!
Anyway, other than that.. I’ve been trying to get posters and stickers printed, source advertisers for this year etc. etc. I think this year is going to be a decent one – as there’s finally time to actually do the marketing.
Other than that, not too much, a 6 hour rogaine with Steve and my climbing partner Chloe… absolutely shockingly miserable weather and a tricky course. Lots of fun.
And a few walks up the track behind my house (this is literally the back doorstep)
Anyway, slightly techy post this one… but lots of fun.
Marcel
March 23, 2012 at 4:54 am
very nice logo :)
however, I suggest to add an http:// , especially if you don’t have a www
(also, there are some broken pixels in the upper font and some lines on the very side and bottom and a thin white line below the street – check the export carefully)
Patrick
March 23, 2012 at 6:22 am
Hmmmm… You might be right (but late ;) about the http://www... thing is, as a purist, it’s really not necessary. That said, the punters would probably like the hint. I’ve uploaded the print-quality PDF http://blog.psdavey.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/sticker-poster.pdf .. that should be a better bet than the GIMP crop of the screenshot ;)
Thanks for the feedback though… I think I will add a www when I get the flyers and stickers printed.. good idea.
Marcel
March 23, 2012 at 8:09 pm
as I thought the original/pdf is fine, just out of curiosity, which crappy rasterizer is to blame for the broken export?
Also I only just noticed the gradient, it’s good but could be a little more pronounced (i.e. the lighter color a bit lighter, the darker slightly darker)? Again, great design :)