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My animation skills have significantly improved since my last post on my fish animation. The above animation is one I’ve just made in class.

Today, in our class we were taught to do a simple animation. This animation (the picture above) is supposed to have a fish swimming pass the trees with bubbles floating upwards in the water. But unfortunately I made a mistake with the fish in the beginning, and ended up with the trees passing the fish […]

I thought this is a futuristic concept hotel when I first saw it on Shanghaiist, but it is not. In fact, this five-star resort hotel will be built within a beautiful water-filled quarry in the Songjiang district close to Shanghai in China. It’s also said this cool hotel will integrate lots of green features ranging […]

I found this design of Thinkpad from a recent post on DesignMatters weblog (a Lenovo blog on its product designs). As you can see this design combines both the portability of a laptop and the advantage of a desktop user interface. The author of the post made a poll to gather votes from its audience […]

Yesterday, I went to The Apple Store during my lunch hour at work. (It is Apple’s first hands-on interactive store to showcase its products in Europe, located on London’s Regent Street, very close to the Oxford Circus tube station.) Because the store is only a few steps away from the place I work, I have […]

Thanks to the cutline theme designed by Chris Pearson, this site has finally started to look a bit professional. Cutline has a very clean look and simple structure, just the kind of theme I’ve been looking for. But there was only one problem. I could not get the ‘archives’ and ‘about’ links in my navigational […]

Yesterday I watched a news report from the BBC about the iphone Apple is planning to launch this year. I have not been an apple fan and never owned an apple computer before, but I was very impressed with many innovative features come with this product, it is quite revolutionary! You can watch Steve Jobs […]