As part of our new studio project this term entitled ‘Utopia/Dystopia’ I was tasked to illustrate a series of designs which conveyed either or both of these themes in the form of a book. - Taking ‘Dystopia’ as my topic of choice I drew inspiration from a few personal photos and started experimenting.

I actually really enjoyed this mini task and thought I’d expand on it by publishing a digital version of this book and wrapping some kind of package around the content. I am always looking for a little sideline project that will help push my skill set so I thought I’d develop a dynamic Flash app to allow interaction with these images. Feel free to have a gander at my initial development:

This is still developed using AS2, and the images are sourced using xml all well and good, but there is something niggling at me, something telling me to bite the bullet and start getting to grips with AS3!…….So I’ve decided I am going to use this application as a foundation to develop these skills and implement a larger scale interactive ’surface portfolio’. My intention is for this subdomain to eventually house an interactive version of my work, represented in a much more visual way. - Imagine a surface with different pockets of work, they can be chucked around, transformed and viewed. Right, kool, go.

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