archGFX » architecture http://archgfx.net Austin web designer - Adam Freetly Sat, 06 Sep 2008 14:41:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 en Urbano-Vegetal http://archgfx.net/blog/2008/arch/urbano-vegetal http://archgfx.net/blog/2008/arch/urbano-vegetal#comments Mon, 05 May 2008 13:14:01 +0000 adam http://archgfx.net/?p=1310 Made In Tokyo has a great collection of photomanipulations of fanciful cities where nature has overscaled the city:



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h/t Josh

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]]> http://archgfx.net/blog/2007/arch/rev-clouds/feed 0 Portfolio Printing http://archgfx.net/blog/2007/arch/portfolio-printing http://archgfx.net/blog/2007/arch/portfolio-printing#comments Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:42:29 +0000 adam http://archgfx.net/blog/2007/asides/portfolio-printing Lulu Portfolio

I just got the two portfolios back that I ordered from Lulu. They look pretty hot, although the picture doesn't do them justice. Lulu was a recommendation from Ben, and it was definately a good thing. The portfolios were half the price of kinkos. Granted, I didn't order them soon enough, so I had to order another from kinkos. For twice the price, kinkos printed the pages in reverse order, and failed to print the cover on cardstock. The lulu portfolios have a minor error1, but the slick binding, great color, and cheap price are totally worth it.

I layed the thing out in Scribus, which is a vast improvement over the aging copy of CorelDraw that I used 2 years ago (and even for the one I made during college). That said, It kept defaulting to A4 rather than 8.5x11, despite my repeatedly telling it that I wanted 8.5x11. It's alright, my main goal was for it to fit in my binder, rather than the legal size version that had to have its own bag. Scribus totally fell down on printing, though. It's only a ten page portfolio, yet it crashed every time I printed or tried to save as a PDF. I eventually had to save the cover and last page as PNG's.


  1. the white line at the top edge of the cover (back ↩)

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]]> http://archgfx.net/blog/2007/arch/portfolio-printing/feed 0 You get what you pay for http://archgfx.net/blog/2007/arch/you-get-what-you-pay-for http://archgfx.net/blog/2007/arch/you-get-what-you-pay-for#comments Fri, 07 Sep 2007 14:18:57 +0000 adam http://archgfx.net/blog/2007/arch/you-get-what-you-pay-for heifer1.jpg

Inhabitat links to a report that says sustainable architecture isn't much more expensive.

gibbsbuilding.jpg

But In Picenum says sustainable office buildings don't perform that much better.

This post is purely anecdotal. I seriously doubt that spending enough money would solve the problem of efficiency.

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]]> http://archgfx.net/blog/2007/arch/you-get-what-you-pay-for/feed 0 Tab Completion in AutoCAD http://archgfx.net/blog/2007/arch/tab-completion-in-autocad http://archgfx.net/blog/2007/arch/tab-completion-in-autocad#comments Tue, 21 Aug 2007 13:05:37 +0000 adam http://archgfx.net/blog/2007/arch/tab-completion-in-autocad

You don't need to be able to read the blog, when the pictures are so convincing:

Autodesk labs just released a tab-completion add-on for AutoCAD 2008. Tab-completion and Auto-suggestion is one of my non-negotiables for code editors, I don't know why it never occurred to me that I wanted them in my day job. It's great for variables like surftab1 & surftab2, that I use when I'm modeling, but almost never in between. I can never remember what the variable name is, but once I start typing "surface", it shows right up. Our office will be working a little faster as of today ;)

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