http://www.lisadearaujo.com/index.php/blog/ en lisa@lisadearaujo.com Copyright 2008 2008-11-09T20:21:00+00:00 http://www.lisadearaujo.com/index.php/blog/more_card_designs/ http://www.lisadearaujo.com/index.php/blog/more_card_designs/#When:20:21:00Z And speaking of alternative card designs, I’ve been enamored of modernist and East German graphic design recently, so did this set for Yellow Horse Productions, Scott’s production company. Going all out with the Soviet thing: And my personal favourite, after pharmaceutical packaging: Design 2008-11-09T20:21:00+00:00 http://www.lisadearaujo.com/index.php/blog/card_designs/ http://www.lisadearaujo.com/index.php/blog/card_designs/#When:09:57:00Z I’ve been concentrating on the day job recently, but have had a few minutes to work on other design projects, in particular business cards. I love to do cards for creative people and companies, because, although branding is important, you can go off on tangents and play around with lots of designs. Like the cards I did for my favourite writer (actually, my favourite everything), Scott Norton. Design 2008-11-09T09:57:00+00:00 http://www.lisadearaujo.com/index.php/blog/just_testing_some_embedding_code/ http://www.lisadearaujo.com/index.php/blog/just_testing_some_embedding_code/#When:14:09:01Z Created in Moviestorm Enjoy! 2008-09-08T14:09:01+00:00 http://www.lisadearaujo.com/index.php/blog/designella/ http://www.lisadearaujo.com/index.php/blog/designella/#When:21:45:00Z Just completed a book design project. For this one, I did the photography, cover design and interior layout. Definitely worth mentioning that the book is brilliant and the author’s pretty damn hot as well. You can buy it from Lulu now.  Design 2008-07-19T21:45:00+00:00 http://www.lisadearaujo.com/index.php/blog/stormin/ http://www.lisadearaujo.com/index.php/blog/stormin/#When:22:16:01Z As Creebies and Yamake draw to a close, I’ve taken on another part-time contract. This one is three days a week at a company called Short Fuze. It’s a local company - just the other side of town - and they develop a product called Moviestorm, a moviemaking software tool that grew out of the Machinima movement. It’s quite interesting and rather a lot of fun. I’m doing a bit of web design, development and various other “stuff” like writing, editing, and organising competitions for their userbase. Go have a look! Design 2008-05-18T22:16:01+00:00 http://www.lisadearaujo.com/index.php/blog/talking_head/ http://www.lisadearaujo.com/index.php/blog/talking_head/#When:10:00:00Z Mine, in this case, talking about Creebies on PocketGamer. Part one. 2008-04-21T10:00:00+00:00 http://www.lisadearaujo.com/index.php/blog/latimes_take_2/ http://www.lisadearaujo.com/index.php/blog/latimes_take_2/#When:18:02:01Z And here it is on the website and in the paper. Photography 2008-04-17T18:02:01+00:00 http://www.lisadearaujo.com/index.php/blog/warner_springs_in_the_la_times_magazine/ http://www.lisadearaujo.com/index.php/blog/warner_springs_in_the_la_times_magazine/#When:17:26:00Z I’ve just had confirmation that one of my photos taken at Warner Springs ranch in California will be published in the LA Times Magazine on the 6th of April. If you’re in the area, could you pick me up a copy, please? I’m pretty sure I won’t be anywhere near there next week. Photography 2008-03-24T17:26:00+00:00 http://www.lisadearaujo.com/index.php/blog/publicity_shot/ http://www.lisadearaujo.com/index.php/blog/publicity_shot/#When:19:14:01Z Photography 2008-03-17T19:14:01+00:00 http://www.lisadearaujo.com/index.php/blog/review_review/ http://www.lisadearaujo.com/index.php/blog/review_review/#When:13:12:01Z Both of my latest titles have been reviewed by Pocket Gamer and very nice they are, too. Creebies is closest to completetion and whilst the single comment on the article was less than encouraging, the review itself was unique in the fact that they really got what I was trying to do with it. Creebies is very close to my heart, you see. I think it’s funny, interesting and really quite deep. Deeper than you might think on first glance, that is. I’m also pleased that the reviewer enjoyed the hurdles mini-game, since that’s also my favourite and one I had to fight to keep in its present form (testers considered it too hard). The reviewer also pointed out the tricky issue with regard to audience for Creebies. We’d aimed it at a young, primarily female target market, since that’s what was requested, but of course, that market generally don’t buy the phones that the game runs on! I’m hoping that older girls and women - like me - will also enjoy it. Yamake is still in production and also got quite a good review, despite the reviewer not being able to make any games. The latest version has some really fun and challenging new quizzes in it. It’s a great title to bring out at the pub or when traveling with friends. I predict it will do well! I hope! 2008-03-15T13:12:01+00:00