Heath Design

Back in Business

Sat, 4 Jul 2009 13:18:57 +1200

As much as I enjoy working in the design field, it’s converting geek-speak or techno-babble into plain English that often pays the bills. Check out my new website at:
www.techwriting.co.nz

More stencils for Omnigraffle

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 19:52:24 +1200

More stencils have been added to Graffletopia, the premier source of stencils for Omnigraffle users. These include metric scale rulers and North points.

Designing Logos with Dynamic Symmetry

Tue, 6 May 2008 19:44:25 +1200

The logos on this page were designed using dynamic symmetry. That is to say, once the concepts for the logos were determined, regulating lines were employed to lay out all the curves and lines, providing a geometric relationship between every point, curve, line and area.

Both logos above, utilise the root-3 progression of equilateral triangles.

“Of all the constraints on Nature, the most far-reaching are imposed by space. For space itself has a structure that influences the shape of every existing thing.” Peter S. Stevens

Designing a Stencil

Sun, 1 Jul 2007 21:01:21 +1200

Creating a well balanced composition can be as simple or as complex as you want to be. Whether you are creating a simple logo, or a complex decorative pattern, the approach to designing is the same.

For those who are interested, I have added a page that outlines how a complex decorative stencil was designed using Dynamic Symmetry.

Web Site Migration Complete

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:22:25 +1300

After much tinkering, the migration of content from the hompage.mac.com site to this web.mac.com site is complete.

In particular, the Scrapbook has been reconstructed and a new section added to cover the Chicago School influenced buildings of New Zealand architect Louis Hay.

So far I have only reviewed the Daily Telegraph building. Over time, I intend to review more buildings.

If you want to contribute a review of a particular building featured in the scrapbook (acknowledging you, as the author of course), please drop me an email.