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New logo for “Umar la Umar”

Dragos M — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:33:08 +0000

Umar la Umar logo

Here is my latest work, a logo for an organisation called “Umar la Umar” (shoulder to shoulder). This is a group of freelancers, each with a different specialization, that work different projects in teams. If someone has a project and needs a coder and an SEO specialist, will call for them on the group board and if they all agree on their personal quotas, will start the project.
The logo that i was commissioned to design must have a corporate look but with a playful touch.
Soon I will post a design process overview on this logo.
Keep in touch.

Conference 2010

Dragos M — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:52:35 +0000

As I was telling you on twitter, last week i was one of the speakers on the first bi-annual Conference organized by the company i work for. The event was hosted by the Ramada Hotel, in the beautiful city of Sibiu. I am the Web Department Manager so i had to prepare a speech about our achievements in the past year.
I can tell you, it is no easy job to speak in front of an international audience. Other people being nervous, makes you have a hard time also.

Me at the conference, presenting a new design

It was a decent presentation and i am eager for the next one. Maybe I’ll get used to this … so i hope.

Intentio – a very interesting blog

Dragos M — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:52:12 +0000

Intentio is an interesting blog about life. Life that is happening every minute, every second, all around us. It is about one man’s journey through life. It is about questioning all that we take for granted, every day without even thinking about how lucky we are.
Got your attention? Well it surely got mine.

Intentio -the blog

This morning, i woke up with a new idea. What about a pro-bono project? I think I’m mature enough for this step. Especially after so many temptations on starting such a project.
Inspired by the work of Stefan Sagmeister I have decided, starting today, DVisionDesign will be working on the first pro-bono project.
I want to keep you updated, in the upcoming weeks, with the status of the project, pictures, dialogs and thoughts.
So if you are interested in this project follow us on twitter or keep up with us with the RSS system.

Smashing Magazine’s wallpaper of the month: February

Dragos M — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 07:54:34 +0000

Being so busy lately with lots of side projects I’m all out of time for things I’d like to do ( to be read: “design”). I decided to take some time, to create a wallpaper for the monthly Smashing Mag contest.
February is, as we all know, the month of love, the Valentine’s Day cliche… My idea was to represent the love in general and not people in-love. This is why I’ve decided to put two hearts under the moonlight. The rest of the scene has some VladStudio style in it, mixed with some old photoshop tricks I’ve learned a while ago.

Valentine - by DragosM

The wallpaper got featured in Smashing Magazine, among other great designs and, as expected, lots of them concentrated on V Day..

If you like the design, or need something new on your desktop, feel free to download it:

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In case you have a different screen size, feel free to leave a comment and I’ll post the one you need.

Merry Christmas!

Dragos M — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 09:20:13 +0000

This winter DVisionDesign has a special present for you. A Christmas wallpaper pack for your desktop.
You can download it in many different sizes: 1620×1050 , 1440×900 , 1024×768 , 320×480 .

We wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. See you all next year, we are now officially on vacation, snowboarding in the mountains.

Enjoy!

Design mention award

Dragos M — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:33:51 +0000

You might wonder what that new label “design mention” is all about.

Our site was selected by the CSS Awards team to participate in the CSS Website of the Year 2009 competition. But for now we received an Honorable Mention and were included in their online gallery or honorable mentions.

CSS Awards mention

You can see this gallery here.

Wish us luck.

New tutorial coming soon.

Dragos M — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:50:48 +0000

Rainbow lines

Stay tuned for the new tutorial on how to make some cool rainbow lines.

Thinking Course – Edward De Bono

Dragos M — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:44:51 +0000

While i was reading an interview with Stefan Sagmeister, founter of Sagmeister Inc. there was one question there about books that he reads.

“Q: Do you read a lot?

A: Yes. The two books I could recommend to my students are both not graphic design books. One book that was extremely helpful to me was written by Edward DeBono called Thinking Course. Edward DeBono is a philosopher from Malta—he wrote a lot of books about thinking. And he shows many exercises about how you can improve your thinking. There are a good number of tricks in there that I use all the time that help me come up with ideas. He says our brain is an incredibly sophisticated computer which is best in thinking in repetition. It has to be that way, otherwise, if you want to pick up, say, a business card, if the brain would be creative all the time, I would have to think: oh, hands go forward, go down fingers, move, now lift it up. It would be too complicated. The brain, by necessity is very good at thinking automatically. But when it comes to creative ideas, the brain also wants to think in repetition. So DeBono shows you some ways to trick the brain out of thinking in repetitions, to throw it out of its regular paths.
The other book is written by Brian Eno. He is a very important electronic musician, who had invented ambient music and produced the Talking Heads and U2. He wrote a diary for one year. The way he goes about making his music and thinking about music is very helpful for graphic designers. “

So i’ve started looking for this Thinking Course that he was so passionate about. Fount it on this interesting page: www.okianul.ro .

Thinking Course

So if you live in Romania and are interested in this book, you can try at Okianul.

Sagmeister is one of the creatives i try to know more about, because of his attitude and calm style. I just love that he doesn’t want to have more then 2 other people to work with, and doesn’t do personal work at all. I do not know if that is a good or a bad thing but one thing I know for sure: if you have clients coming to you and no need to do “personal work” just to grow your portfolio, that means you are someone in the the bizz.

Simple, Flash/XML based, Bar Chart

Dragos J — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:29:45 +0000

Greetings ladies and gentlemen,

As we here at DVision Design like to tweak and play with all kinds of things, here’s the latest of our experiments.

Yes, I know that there are ready made solutions available out there, some of them that are nicer, have more features and make you sandwiches, but so it was that I had to create a solution from scratch as the project that needed it didn’t allow the usage of any piece of software that comes from the outside world…Don’t ask.

So what is it? Basically this flash movie, reads the data from an XML file, and based on what is defined there, renders a number of bars on the screen, thus creating the beautiful Bar Chart that you see below.

Amazing, eh? Further below you will find the link to the zip file containing all you need to study, use, replicate, and improve the movie. But before you download that file in such large numbers that our server bursts to flames; let me first explain the structure of the XML file and how to properly load the Flash movie.

The XML structure is the following

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2
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>
 value=”” color=”” name=”” info=”” />
>

Okay, so, what you have to know about the parameters:

value – numeric and pretty much self-explanatory
color – the bar color. The value of this attribute must be entered in the form of: 0xRRGGBB. In fact, you can use any HTML color code and just replace # with 0x.
name – the bar name, it will be printed at the bottom of the bar.
info – text for the info bubble. Try to keep it short, as the bubble does not auto-size…yet

Seeing that sometimes it is necessary to have more than one movie loaded on the same page, the XML file is passed as an external variable to the movie. Here’s an example:

1	name="FlashVars" value="xmlFile=Stats.xml" />

So there you go. Now you have all the necessary information required to implement this movie or to start building your own version based on it.

And by all means, show us your variants, if you end up improving/rebuilding this movie.

Happy coding.

Download link: here

CUT N PASTE

Dragos M — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:24:48 +0000

This is my latest work: a new typography wallpaper.

CUT N PASTE

To download it just click on the picture and save it in full 1920×1200 size.
Enjoy.