Some Projects In The Works…

nvzion — mGee @ 9:12 am

Another nvzion related blog entry here. I thought I’d give everyone a sneak peak at the latest Public Enemy projects which we have under development at nvzion. The first two images shown, feature the terrific illustrations of UK illustrator Paul Stone.

To the left is what will be used in the 2006 Public Enemy release How do you sell soul to a souless people who sold their soul?? To the right is the current development version of the cover for the upcoming PE release New Whirl Odor.

It’s proving to be a record release year for PE. Along with the above mentioned projects. PE has teamed with Paris for Rebirth Of A Nation. Paris is taking the reigns on this one and is producing and preparing the project on his end at Guerrilla Funk.

Although we aren’t involved with the Paris produced project, we are, however, designing a pair of releases for Universal/Def Jam. These are the first official Public Enemy hits packages. To the right is the cover for Power to the People and the Beats: Public Enemy’s Greatest Hits

On the right is the companion release Power to the People and the Videos: The Total Visual Experience of Public Enemy. For the first time ever, a DVD featuring all the videos for PE’s classics. Keep an eye out for these Universal/Def Jam releases sometime between July and September.

That’s about it for now. Keep checking back, to see what previews or ramblings I have for you.

Introducing Nvzion.com

nvzion — mGee @ 1:41 pm

Welcome to the debut entry of my personal blog. Here you’ll find me blabbering about whatever comes to mind. It may or may not be posted to daily. More likely it’ll be a weekly posting. So add the rss feed to your favorite news aggregator and keep up with what goes on in my world.

The blog also serves as a sort of code/design playground for me to try out whatever new trick that comes to mind. So, in this spirit, I tried out one such trick immediately. Each blog entry will feature a different header image. Due to this, I needed to find a way to dynamically change the color of some of the page’s text to play nicely with the color scheme of the image. So I devized a sweet little php script which reads the rgb values of 5 points of the image, then averages these values and returns an averaged RGB value which is then used to set the styles of certain page elements.

Also notice the nifty dynamic "Recent rotation" playlist, at the bottom, it uses data from my Audioscrobbler text feed, which is dynamically updated using the J.River Media Center Audioscrobbler plugin.

So what else? After over a year of development, I’ve finally completed the recode/redesign of my company’s domain. Digitexturia is now officially nvzion.com/nvzion.net. Digitexturia will continue to redirect to nvzion for the next two years, after that I’ll decide what to do with it. Perhaps it’ll be relaunched as a personal project, I’m not at all sure yet.

It’s been a long time coming. I recoded the php from the ground up, using all I’ve learned over the past five years. I also schooled myself in tableless layout using css. I found that CSS has still got a way to go and could use a few details that would make it easier to transition from table layout. Primarily, rules for centering objects both horizontally and vertically would be very helpful. Hopefully CSS will include such rules in the future. Thanks to Jeffrey Zeldman, his helpful book "Designing With Web Standards" and his useful site A List Apart.

nvzion is now being hosted at Powweb.com. We’ve left Tera-byte in favor of PowWeb primarily because they support both php 4 and php 5. Also enticing was the fact that they provide you with 5gb of storage and 10gb of transfer per day!

Along with the launch of the all new nvzion, we’ve also added our most recent design work for both print and screen, please do have a look.