New Business Card Design
Date: July 8th, 2009 Category: Things Tags: business card, design, graphics, logo [ 0 ]
I finally finished my new business card design today and sent it to the printer. Check it out below (click to zoom) and let me know what you think. It’s a two-sided card with rounded corners and a satin matte finish. I really think they’ll come out looking great.
I chose to go with Overnight Prints to get the cards printed. They had good customer reviews, used higher quality paper stock than most, and offered affordable offset press printing. Most places for the price I paid can only offer digital printing which is no where near as high quality.
Temporary Blog Theme
Date: July 6th, 2009 Category: Things Tags: themes, wordpress [ 4 ]
I was sick of the brown and orange theme I created last year and wanted a change. But, I’ve been too busy to spend the time on designing a new theme. So, until I get around to it I’ll be using this one. Thanks to the people at Design Disease for the theme. I’ve also updated my Twitter Page as well to match.
My 2008 Audi A4 vs. Dynolicious App
Date: July 2nd, 2009 Category: Things Tags: audi a4, cars, dynolicious app [ 3 ]
Dynolicious is an iPhone/iPod Touch application that utilizes the built-in accelerometer of those devices to calculate your cars speed, acceleration, “G’s”, horsepower, and some other cool stuff. So, I decided to see how my 2008 Audi A4 SE would stack up performance wise against what’s reported by the manufacturer.
A few quick notes before we look at how I did:
- This app is pretty accurate but it’s no way near as accurate as a real Dynamometer machine. Thus the data provided below should be considered a close estimate.
- I’m not a professional driver – LOL.
OK, now on to the fun stuff. I have a 2008 Audi A4 SE with a 2.0L turbo charged engine and a 6-speed manual transmission. It’s rated at 200 HP and Audi says the 6-speed manual version can do 0-60 MPH in 6.8 second. Pretty damn quick for a fuel efficient 4-cylinder engine (averages 21 MPG)! Those crazy Germans…
Anyway, on my best run I was able to produce 203 HP at a maximum speed of 100.1 MPH. My 1/4 mile time was 15.73 seconds while my 0-60 MPH time was 7.86 seconds. Not as fast as the car can go apparently, but I was happy considering it’s me behind the wheel and this is my daily driver ;-)
Not only does Dynolicious provide all kinds of real-time info while driving it also logs it all and creates great looking graphs which you can download and save. All in all pretty cool stuff…
Square Orange Logo v1
Date: July 2nd, 2009 Category: Things Tags: graphics, logo [ 6 ]
As I mentioned in an earlier post I’m starting my own web development company called Square Orange. I needed to create a logo of course for business cards, the website, etc., but I’ve never drawn an orange let alone a square one. So, I started working on creating a regular looking orange in Adobe Illustrator before moving on to a square shaped one. After I got that down I created the image below (click to enlarge).
It’s the same image as before just with some Photoshop trickery added to make it a rounded square. I plan on tweaking it a bit more but for the most part I’m happy with it and it’ll have to do for now. Next up is working on the website layout and business card design.
As always feel free to post comments/suggestions about the logo design. I’d be interested in hearing what everyone thinks.