N A W L Z is an experimental interactive comic combining text, illustration, music, and animation to tell stories, produced by Sutu, and issue seven, "In Search Of The Lotus Seed", has just left the building. This is what design interfaces were like during the late 1990's "boom years" of web design... an experience, this is case an audio and visual experience. Take off your standards compliant hats for a ... Read full entry

While producers of The Dark Knight have rejected a script written by Michael Bay, who knows, maybe the idea could be adapted for an animated version of Batman, much like Star Wars: The Clone Wars, which is due out shortly. Some of the action isn't too bad after all (page 112): The Batmobile is gunning down the highway at over 200 miles per hour, weaving through traffic. Every ... Read full entry

This is an amazing story on two levels. First up, the BBC almost wantonly destroys 108 archived episodes of its classic science fiction production, Doctor Who, from the 1960s. Why? Because they wanted to create storage space for copies of newer programmes, and obviously didn't want to find larger facilities to store all their archived productions. However some of the old Doctor Who shows have now ... Read full entry

An awesome collection of flash powered websites.

Juno: Creating the title sequence Those who enjoyed the movie Juno as I did, may also enjoy this photo set which shows how the hand-animated title sequence was put together by Shadowplay Studio. There's actually an ironic reference to Shadowplay designers Gareth and Jenny in Juno, which some people would have found memorable. (The same ironic sort of references apply here in Randwick also :)

Flash is not sexy or so they say Flash, in a place where there was no need for Flash, is particularly non-sexy. To me there is nothing worse than going to a site constructed almost entirely in Flash that at first glance you are like, "wait is this just straight HTML & CSS?", nope they tricked you. I truly do not understand this one ... Read full entry

Pixar does Semi-Permanent This just in from Design is Kinky, re the Sydney Semi-Permanent conference: We are very happy to announce that computer animation powerhouse, Pixar, will be speaking at this years Sydney event. Pixar is the animation studio behind movies such as Toy Story, Finding Nemo, and my personal favourite animated movie of recent times, The Incredibles.