John Cozen

3D Scene – Neurosa

john — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 04:35:29 +0000

Here’s a 3D scene I produced using Cinema 4D and Photoshop.

Neurosa - click to enlarge

iSlate rendering – touch based tablet running full OSX

john — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 03:02:37 +0000

The iPad has received mixed reactions and lots of hardcore techies were expecting Steve Jobs to introduce a real touch-based laptop replacement. That day isn’t here yet and while the iPad will be a fantastic device, it’s inevitable that one day Apple will introduce a touch based portable computer that more closely resembles the features of a Macbook Pro;sometime after that, traditional laptops will likely become more niche rather than the norm much like desktops are today. Here’s my rendering of the iSlate.

‘Watchin You’ A Firefox Theme

john — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:40:27 +0000

I tried my hand at designing a Firefox theme, or a ‘persona,’ which came out great & I love using; in part because it’s visually interesting and doesn’t look gaudy or compete with the user interface elements like so many custom browser themes tend to do, but mostly because those are my wife’s eyes, shot on our wedding day! ‘Watchin You’ can be added to your Firefox through the Personas Gallery.

16 page magazine

john — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:50:50 +0000

In producing this project, the ‘Pulse’ magazine published by the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego, I utilized InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator; drawing from original (including cover shot) and stock imagery to produce an incredibly functional and visually appealing 16 page publication. I’ve embedded the magazine here using issue, check it out:

FlashCamp SF – Rundown and Images

john — Sat, 30 May 2009 01:31:03 +0000

Adobe opened the doors of their San Francisco office to the Flash design and development community for FlashCamp, an event showcasing new software and framework features of the Flash Platform: Flash Catalyst 1, Flash Builder 4 and the Flex 4 SDK.

outside the Adobe Building - FlashCamp 2009

First up was Flash Catalyst, software designed to marry the workflow of Flash Designers working in Photoshop with the workflow of Flash Developers using Actionscript and the Flex framework. Adobe’s been teasing Catalyst under the codename Thermo for years and now that we’ve seen it in action and have working beta copies, I can say that it’s an impressive program which will empower designers and developers. Steven Heinz, Principal Product Manager for Flash Catalyst, prototyped a rich internet application using Catalyst where the user accesses information about congress members via an interactive graphical interface. The prototype was functional, incorporated animations through multiple states and drew on an XML file to dynamically drive data, all without the designer writing a line of code. Catalyst did, however, generate MXML and actionscript code that is ready to be handed off to a developer for the actual building.

Steven Heintz, Flash Catalyst

Adobe is changing the branding of their Flash and Flex code building software from Flex Builder to Flash Builder, which combines with new features of the Flex 4 like FXG to grant developers more control in how their applications look and animate between states.

Ely Greenfield, principal scientist, descibes new features of Flex 4

We also heard from the head of AIR, Arno Gourdol who demoed features of AIR 2.0, codenamed ATHENA: smoother installs and an improved filebrowser.

Arno Gourdo, Adobe AIR

New York Times Adobe AIR based desktop app

On my way out I cornered an Adobe engineer and asked him about their plan for the mobile space. He mentioned the ability Flash developers have now to target the AIR framework for developing desktop applications and sugessted that sometime after Flex 4 is final later this year, we may hear about another framework specifically for mobile devices. He then brought up The Open Screen Project, an initiative led by Adobe to enact a set of standards for interacting with rich media apps across computer, television and mobile screens. Overall a very cool night and an exciting time to be a Flash Platform developer.

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Flash Catalyst, Flash Builder and Flex 4 Software DVD