design portfolio.
I love this! All my favourite works (mainly for print) compressed into one pdf.
corpo design
Corpo Design is my graphic design side company for freelancing around Yorkshire. Currently I decline all work for it.
my cv
This is exactly what it says on the tin, a quick overview of all that I've done with my life so far.
Blog Blog Blog
Repeat the word enough times and it becomes meaningless. I update it pretty regularly, and I try to keep it varied. I call it Corpo Legal.
Kierononononon ♥
Kieronononon is my band, well, not mine exactly but I can happily claim 1/3 of it. I'm the keyboardist, and also do vocals. You can get a free EP or just look around
Tumblette
I don't want to worry about keeping my blog software up to date, I should be posting or creating something, so I wrote a client for posting to tumblr.com. There wasn't any other at the time, so ideally I should have released it then. Still isn't released. Bad orta.
Chucked
Chucked is an iPhone game where you have to throw a poor chap as high as possible. This should get open-sourced pretty soon, or maybe I'll buy a license and just release it as a free download.
Grabbed
Grabbed is some open source example code that shows finger dragging characters in chipmunk physics.
No one likes IE
If you do, well, at least we have something we can talk about.
I like the colours on this page, but now I'm not too sure about the rest.
Glyphs
I found it a bit awkwards to get unicode character codes for OSX for my orta_tips blog. This page lets you click on a glyph and have it copied to your clipboard
Pirates
Pirates is some plug in code, that will detect unpurchased copies of your app and present a different game to them. Its useful, but its probably outdated now.
Thrown
Thrown is a physics puzzle game thats open source and occasionally gets updated, its probably the closest I have to being ready for the public.
The code is open, and I get emails quite often about the mechanics of it.
Virtual Operating systems!
Honestly, it's really interesting, one of my favourite projects! This site loads an OS in your browser, its emulated. I hope you have a good net connection though.
roxXOR2
A music label for people that listen to music that's not shite.
Obviously my bands on it, there's some other interesting bands on there.
Soft Stuff
Soft Stuff is a font based on playdough, colourful and fun! I'd talked to people who said it was very difficult to create a font. So I ran with an idea I'd wanted in a design and finished it up over the course of a week.
The Cube
I wanted to play with 3d in Flash, originally I had planned on turning this into a site homepage, but I prefer keeping the homepage in standard HTML/CSS.
Web Terminal
A terminal for the web... Kinda useless. This was one of my first ideas for ortatherox.com. The thing was, people instinctively don't get command line based interfaces anymore. So it got scrapped.
Don't pay the train fare
is a facebook app for seeing who's single in your facebook network. Quick simple and to the point.
Forumwarz bot
Forumwarz is a great online game, you play as an internet troll on the internet. Since I learnt javascipt I've become obsessed with improving websites via bookmarklets. In this case I wrote a jQuery bot to play the boring bits for me.
4chan scripts
It's been called the scourge of the internet, an "Internet Hate Machine." I don't think its so bad, so I look for ways to improve it, these bookmarklets are entirely to fix usability issues I have with the site
Voyeur on
I like to watch videos on youtube the moment they're created, its the raw output of millions of people making videos that can so often seem pointless. I try document these.
Done
I keep track of what I've been doing via done. Its a server and a client that talk over HTTP, I use it to keep track of how long I've been working on projects and to keep others at work up to date. Release pending. Rough prototype video.
Embot's blog
My girlfriends blog, I worked with her on the design of this. I love the colour scheme she choose.
Snapshots
A great app idea I've been working on since WWDC 2007. It grabs a screen grab at every change you make to a webpage and then turns it into a quicktime movie. The first bit is working, the second isn't.
Kieronononon
Keeping regular updates to fans of the band means doing things, so we choose to either do a podcast or newsletters. The newsletter gave me free reigns on design. So I've used all sorts of styles in it.