Archive for August 23rd, 2006

Ad design tips

Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006

Kala Bijoux of Material Squirrel posted a set of graphic design guidelines for people creating merchandise ads in Second Life while waiting for the 1.12 update to finish. Here’s a sampler of the mistakes she covers:

Images from SL that aren’t scaled correctly
Too much going on in the ad
Text (in the ad itself and the announcement [...]

The Lindens did a release, and all I got was this lousy viewer…

Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006

Another week, another release. I must admit that I’m actually looking forward to this one, despite the inevitable hiccups, because of the significantly improved in world group functionality. (Seriously, that last link is “Everything you ever wanted to know about groups post 1.12 release.”)
I can now — finally — belong to up to [...]

Electric Venus

Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006

Wanda Rich is on indefinite design hiatus, but she’s been building a new online fashion magazine site called Electric Venus. Electric Venus aims to offer longer, less “new release” type coverage and more in depth news, commentary and reviews. It also features a lot of cool fashion/content creation tips and how to articles, [...]

Kimberly’s Ladybugs

Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006

A chance encounter early Monday morning let me see these beautiful shoes in world before the ad was shot for them. I’m talking about Kimberly Casanova’s Ladybug shoes.
I was taking a look around Garbage Prototype’s brand new store (see the all the new denim at Garbage’s store — it looks like Kimberly’s wearing [...]