Archive of January 2009
I’ve been working on this for a while at Kraft. I added the axis of rotation arrows to a CAD rendering of Kraft’s new Viper manipulator arm. I didn’t think it was too bad for being at a weird angle and for me not having any technical drawing experience. Way to toot your own horn, Ross.
December 1963 (Oh What a Night!)
A tribute to The Four Seasons. Starring Alexandria and me.
Facebook pulled the video for copyright reasons. If you want something done right…
Kraft TeleRobotics pre-Christmas rush
As some of you faithful readers (wishful thinking) may know, I have a part time job at an Overland Park based company called Kraft TeleRobotics. Kraft designs and manufactures manipulator arms and telerobotic systems. I’ve worked there over a year creating and maintaining their website.
I was pretty busy before Christmas working to finish content for their newest electric manipulator design, Viper. I also updated the Scout page, since the first Viper was made for it. I’m pretty fond of the Viper page, but the Scout features is just “meh”.
I also threw up a Viper feature spot on the home page. This design was adapted for a bookmark-sized sheet of paper that fit into travel mugs that were sent out to customers. The mugs had a cool carbon fiber look to them and we had the Viper name laser etched on the side.
Most of those went out at the same time as the Christmas Cards, which I Photoshopped1 the heck out of some images for. I’m not going to lie, I’m pretty proud of myself for drawing all those shadows in. I know it’s late, but I hope it brought a sense of magic, mystery, and drama to your post-holiday season.
Along with the cards, mugs, and web content, special Christmas gifts were also sent out to valued customers, which I also designed something for. I won’t make all other customers jealous by revealing what the gifts were. Just buy more next year.
With all of that going on, I was pretty busy at work. Now that the content is up, it’s all a matter of convincing Google that the company is legitimate and should top the search results. Not really an easy task.
1 Legally correct term: “used virtual-based computer-powered image manipulation techniques”
RedLists updates
A few things updated on RedLists tonight:
- Textile message support
- This pretty much means HTML support. I tested an HTML mailer I had done before and everything went through, it was just a little botched in different clients. It was all tables and images, no CSS. I’m not going to recommend using this for big-time mini-website emails yet. But it gets the job done.
- List-specific “from” addresses (should have had this to start with)
- iPhone layout
We just sent out an announcement via the RedLists mailing List which you should subscribe to. Just because.
Matt is a genius and has set up a tumblr and subscribed the email-to-post address to the list, so we get a blog of updates. Genius idea, but so far it hasn’t worked. We’re waiting on the email we just sent out to show up on http://redlists.tumblr.com/. Maybe it just takes a while?
Or maybe we’ll be moving to Posterous.