Category: Expressive Typography

New Visual Demo Video

Posted by on March 22, 2009

In celebration of iBlipper finally entering the app store, we’ve created a new demo reel of the visual effects:

And, oh yeah, iBlipper has a freshly design website — with more videos.

Get Your Blip On!

Open Source Code from iBlipper: tyPhoGraphic

Posted by on December 26, 2008

We’ve released some of the technology behind iBlipper as an open source Library. tyPhoGraphic allows you to augment HTML content with a few custom attributes and have it animate with all the wiggle, waggle, wobble, and zoomy goodness of iBlipper.

A Special Happy Holidaze Message

Posted by on December 21, 2008

iPhone users can visit the live, hardware accelerated collection of holiday messages guaranteed to stir up the holiday spirit (or visit blog.iblipper.com if you have to type!).

For those without a fresh build of Webit, here’s the movie:

More on the the technology behind this — a declarative animation specification & renderer soon.

A Change is Gonna Come (to iBlipper)

Posted by on October 30, 2008

We’re upping the ante with iBlipper real soon now. Here’s a nice slow-mo capture of the new hardware accelerated “trans formz” in action:

We’re playing with bouncing, zoom, wobble, fade, and shake. Check out the CSS (beta version). We haven’t even begun with color transforms, smooth scroll, or putting each word in a span to for letter level control.

Release is coming soon, you can try a build of the beta. These effects are now live!

Experimenting with Native CSS Transforms

Posted by on September 24, 2008

We’ve been having fun with the new CSS Transforms in Safari and the hardware accelerated animation versions for the iPhone. Support is coming for CSS transformsin Mozilla as well.

So, check out a couple of work in progress demos:

(Note: You’ll need to be on the iphone to see this in action)

These versions are also trying out a fixed-width font to make sizing a bit more consistent. Let us know what you think in the comments or at our UserVoice page.

Now with flashy fades

Posted by on September 11, 2008

While we didn’t quite get to the special iPhone hardware accelerated CSS animations, jQuery pulled through just fine to add a touch of visual pizzaz to the animation. A simple fadeout adds a lot to the experience.

Here’s a little movie:

We’re still playing with the visual parameters, but the right animation should help “burn in” the blips to their recipients brains. Word recognition is, in psycho babble terms, automatic — involuntary, without conscious control. The tagline candidate, “pre-attentive reality hacking” refers to the inability of persons with visual focus on your iphone for the message duration to not perceive it’s meaning.

Vote the the iBlipper tagline

Posted by on September 01, 2008

iBlipper: Instant Messaging for the Real World
We’ve done a new iBlipper logo, utilizing some expressive typography.

Now it’s time to lock the tagline. Take our poll… hop on over to the blog sidebar.