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Creating the olfa qr code

davesundays — Sun, 29 May 2011 08:06:32 +0000

What are QR codes

The QR code was created by the Denso corporation, way back in 90′s. Today, they are used all over Japan for easy access to information and numerous marketing and promotional applications. Learn more about QR codes on wikipedia.

The Project

Take a look at the images here.

The olfa art knife

from amazon.com

from rakuten.co.jp

I love OLFA cutters, they are a great Japanese product from an awesome Osaka company.
I also enjoy making custom qr codes, something that has not quite taken off in Australia yet, though there are a few companies using them.
I found myself sitting at my desk one evening with my cutter and a nice piece of cardboard next to me and thought it might be fun to have a go a hand cutting a QR code and what better than one that linked to olfa.com.

I recorded the process from start to finish; Drawing the grid, cutting the cardboard and piecing the qr code together.

Check out the video here.

Hanko social icon set

davesundays — Mon, 23 May 2011 12:25:28 +0000

Download the set

Download the icons

Icons are in png format with 128px, 64px and 32px sizes.

Currently the set includes icons for the following services.

Twitter
Facebook
Youtube
Forrst
Flickr
Instagr.am
Linkedin
Dribbble

A set of handmade hanko stamp social icons. I had wanted to do this for a while and actually started making them when I was working on the TEDxOsaka project back in April. I have extended the set slightly and added icons for a few other services. I usually like to carve in wood or lino but cheated a bit with these and carved them out of rubber.

Full size twitter profile image

davesundays — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 16:44:20 +0000

Other image sizes

If you want to call the other twitter image sizes you can add

_bigger
_normal
_mini

between the second set of quotes after the username when calling the function.

Notes

*Its not recommended to use the twitter api for this, but sometimes it can be handy.

Was trying to figure out how to get the full size twitter profile pic from the twitter api.
Found a neat little code snipped from stackoverflow.com that worked like a charm.

function get_big_profile_image($username, $size = '') {
$api_call = 'http://twitter.com/users/show/'.$username.'.json';
$results = json_decode(file_get_contents($api_call));
return str_replace('_normal', $size, $results->profile_image_url);
}

Then just add this bit of code where you want to call the image and wrap it in some img tags to display it in a html page.

The full size profile image.

echo get_big_profile_image('Your-Username','');

The mini size profile image.

echo get_big_profile_image('Your-Username','_mini');