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Genius Bar themed iOS dock
While trying to create a wood texture with Photoshop I ended up making this graphic borrowing the look and feel of a typical Apple Store...
Read more Posted September 17 - Updated September 23, 2011iPhone 4: An inspirational industrial design
I've been waiting for a while now to take a photo of this phone, all I needed was the right lighting, a nice viewing angle and a wooden background. And finally yesterday, as I was sitting at my kitchen table, all these conditions for this one shot were fulfilled.
Playing with CSS transforms
In the graphic below, the part with a perspective distortion has been created with css transforms. It was used as an illustration for ChateauxCountry.com's new year greetings this past month.
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Posted February 7, 2011
Coraline, or: How small things can make a big difference
Coraline (2009), directed by Henry Selick, is one of those movies that pushes creative boundaries. From the original soundtrack to the...
Read more Posted December 15, 2010Greetings through iPhone home screen
This is a customized iPhone home screen, printed out and used as a gift wrapping paper. Every letter you see is a bookmark of a web page represented by a touch icon.
Sketching out a new Mac app icon. To be continued...
While I'm eyeing Panasonic's GF1 camera, I have to admit, their LX series still keep me interested. The recently announced DMC-LX5 looks promising and features a slightly changed industrial design, which I think is one of the slickest and most gorgeous among current compact cameras.
I like how Apple implementend very detailed and yet metaphoric user interface graphics into their iPad apps. To give you an example, take a look at the blueprint-like background in the setup view for document margins in Pages, Apple's word processing application.
Posted April 9, 2010What an addictive and challenging iPhone app / iPod touch game this is! I think its appeal lies in the recipe: Add some nice sound effects, minimal graphics with a neon style, smooth animations and you have: Orbital.
Taking art lessons on a regular basis has helped me rediscover a true passion this year. So I've picked three of my favourite and most popular drawings, out of the ones I've made in the past few months, have a look!
Lately, I've been digging through my ever aging midi file collection and finally decided to bring a few picks of that music back online. Check out this restored music box.
Posted November 23, 2009My favoured php based development framework gets forked. Lithium sees the light of day.
Posted November 3, 2009Infinite Note starts taking shape! You can still visit my previous website, at least what's left of it.
Posted October 29, 2009
Zebra
Painting, August 2011
Lion
Mixed Media Painting, March 2011
Blue Cat
Watercolor painting, May 2010
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My name is Nicolas Fornallaz and I work as a web developer / designer in Paris. Currently I'm maintaining a web site which promotes French chateaux. Before that I've been living in Zürich (Switzerland) until 2001.