A couple of months ago I came across Greyscale Gorilla - a blog dedicated to all manner of motion graphics and 3D design.

Whilst traversing the wealth of posts over there I found out about the "5 second projects" - basically they provide you with a theme and all you have to do is create an animation based on it. The animation can literally be anything you want it to be as long as it has something to do with the theme they set.

[UPDATE: I have gone ahead with the change to the new brand tagline. Thanks for the feedback! ]

I have been thinking about changing the branding tagline of my site for a while now and have come up with the following:

Thomas Davis | Creative Design & Development.

Compared with the original:

Thomas Davis | Online Design & Creation.

I recently wrote about the visual design within games and how I am inspired by the visual aesthetics of certain game environments & landscapes.

Following the post, I decided to have a play around with some of the aesthetic elements seen in one of the games I mentioned: Fallout 3.

Here is what I came up with:

When people think of design as a creative field, chances are they immediately think of mainstream design fields such as graphic designers, interior designers or fashion designers for example. There is one area however, which I feel is often overlooked by most: game design.

Now, by game design I am talking about the aesthetics within games and not the design of the overall game structure which deals more with aspects such as the rules of the game for example.

I have put together 3 examples of games which, for me, showcase brilliant aesthetics.

Fallout 3

In my blog post yesterday, I talked about the RFID rabbits known as nano:ztags bringing a relatively new and emerging technology to the public in an aesthetically pleasing manner.

I then remembered a site which I had come across a couple of months ago: nearfield.org - the site relates to the research project: "touch" which investigates Near Field Communications.