Skip to Content
Back to all Articles Posted: 21 January 2014

We are back for even more inspirational findings from our team.

1) An amazing cartoon animation – Coin hero animation:

2) Pipeline Winter 2013 surfing video – filmed with a quadcopter:
http://vimeo.com/83187924

3) EE – Digital City Portraits – mathematical social media illustration:

http://brendandawes.com/projects/ee/

4) Snap SVG –  A JavaScript SVG library for the modern web:
http://snapsvg.io/

5) GSAP – A suite of tools for scripted, high-performance HTML5 animations that work in all major browsers:
http://www.greensock.com/gsap-js/

6) SVG animation – Nice example of vector animation using SVG:
http://playgroundinc.com/blog/the-playground-vector-animation-process/

7) A nice use of video to bring alive the content – Building an open source Nest:
http://blog.spark.io/2014/01/17/open-source-thermostat/

8) Tools of the trade podcast – Jonathan and Kelli talk about the tools we use to get our jobs done on a daily basis. :
http://nitch.cc/podcast/episode-91-papil-and-pencer

9) A use full tool for pixel perfect front end development – Glueprintapp:
http://glueprintapp.com/

10) One minute briefs – One Rule. One Minute. Create an Ad.
http://oneminutebriefs.blogspot.co.uk/
https://twitter.com/OneMinuteBriefs

11) The parallax to end all parallax’s? – Sony Parrallex:
http://discover.store.sony.com/be-moved/

12) No Pants Subway – You never know how far a simple idea can spread.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/13/no-pants-metro-ride-photos_n_4591514.html

13) Rendering – An almost life like render
http://ht.ly/sms2I

14) Boarding pass – A nice look at redesigning of the awful boarding pass.
http://petesmart.co.uk/rethink-the-airline-boarding-pass/

15) Sharing your ideas – Scrap ideas:
http://davidcole.me/ideas.html

16) A warning from XKCD to tell us our infinite scrolling mechanisms are rubbish
http://xkcd.com/1309/

17) Very cool CSS Game Boy.
http://codepen.io/heero/pen/wylhv

18) The creative process can get depressing, but push over the hump in the middle and you’ll get the results you’ve come to expect.
http://mattduvall.com/2014/01/12/it-takes-time.html

19) Hundreds of great programming books for free (like, legally free).
https://github.com/vhf/free-programming-books/blob/master/free-programming-books.md#php

20) Article advocating that JS animations are not bad, and in many cases are better than CSS animations.
http://css-tricks.com/myth-busting-css-animations-vs-javascript/

21) Another way of vertically aligning in CSS using transformations. Although we’re all wondering why a decent vertical align is missing from the CSS spec.
http://zerosixthree.se/vertical-align-anything-with-just-3-lines-of-css/

Written by: carbon

More articles

Inspirational Kick Off 6

Inspirational Kick Off 2