Swayspace blog » Willy http://swayspace.com/blog Thoughts from Swayspace Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:10:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 We’re in an Art Show http://swayspace.com/blog/2010/05/were-in-an-art-show/ http://swayspace.com/blog/2010/05/were-in-an-art-show/#comments Mon, 24 May 2010 20:18:59 +0000 Willy http://swayspace.com/blog/?p=604 We are excited to announce Swayspace’s participation in a show highlighting the work of master craftsmen and artisans working in New York City. The show is part of the LVMH-sponsored project The Art of Craftsmanship Revisited: New York and opens this Wednesday 26 May. The show will be open to the public June 5 – June 27, 11 AM – 5 PM at Nolan Park on Governors Island, which is a great place to visit in the summer in New York, so we hope you can make it out to see and celebrate the hard work of these craftsmen and students.

This has been a great opportunity for us to peruse our archives for some of our favorite commercial work like the 2009 Feltron Annual Report as well as the kind of interesting printed ephemera that we’re always producing.

The invitation we designed and printed for the opening:
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A sneak peak of what we’ll have on display:
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Here’s how this came about:

Over the past winter and spring we hosted a group of Parsons fashion design students as part of The Art of Craftsmanship Revisited: New York. Andres, Chi, Payal, Sherman, and Sooji of the team Half-Broken Things spent many hours in the Swayspace printshop absorbing many fine points about letterpress printing. These lessons informed their final project, a dress and short film.

]]> http://swayspace.com/blog/2010/05/were-in-an-art-show/feed/ 1 Select Menus and Conditional Logic with jQuery http://swayspace.com/blog/2010/05/select-menus-and-conditional-logic-with-jquery/ http://swayspace.com/blog/2010/05/select-menus-and-conditional-logic-with-jquery/#comments Fri, 14 May 2010 05:29:39 +0000 Willy http://swayspace.com/blog/?p=504 In a recent prototype for a web application we are working on, we needed to use a select menu to display the appropriate result after a user makes a selection. We couldn’t find any jQuery examples online that did just what we wanted, so hopefully the following will help someone facing the same problem.

Here’s an example of what we want to happen. Choosing one of the options in the select menu reveals a particular paragraph. Clicking “Remove” makes that paragraph disappear again. Choosing “Select...” resets everything back to where we started:



And here’s how the code works. First include jQuery (duh). Next create a select menu with a value included for each option. (That’s crucial for making the whole thing work.) Following that, we’ve got three hidden paragraphs, each with an id (unique, of course). Then comes the script, which pretty much says “If the user switches the select menu to option 1, 2, or 3, display the corresponding paragraph. If they select the first option, hide any displayed paragraphs. And if they click a link, hide the parent (the paragraph in this case) of that link.” Hope that helps, and happy coding:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

<head>
  <script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js"></script>
</head>

<body>
  <select>
    <option value="0">Select...</option>
    <option value="1">First</option>
    <option value="2">Second</option>
    <option value="3">Third</option>
  </select>
  <p id="first" style="display: none">This is the first paragraph. <a class="remove" href="#">Remove</a></p>
  <p id="second" style="display: none">This is the second paragraph. <a class="remove" href="#">Remove</a></p>
  <p id="third" style="display: none">This is the third paragraph. <a class="remove" href="#">Remove</a></p>
  <script>
    $('select').change(function() {
      if ($(this).val() == 1) {
        $('#first').show('fast'); }
      else if ($(this).val() == 2) {
        $('#second').show('fast'); }
      else if ($(this).val() == 3) {
        $('#third').show('fast'); }
      else if ($(this).val() == 0) {
        $('#first, #second, #third').hide('fast'); }
     });

    $('.remove').click(function() {
      $(this).parent().hide('fast');
    });
  </script>
</body>
</html>
]]> http://swayspace.com/blog/2010/05/select-menus-and-conditional-logic-with-jquery/feed/ 1 Patrick’s Neon Bicycle http://swayspace.com/blog/2009/08/patricks-neon-bicycle/ http://swayspace.com/blog/2009/08/patricks-neon-bicycle/#comments Thu, 13 Aug 2009 06:45:35 +0000 Willy http://swayspace.com/blog/?p=265 Our pals over at Lite Brite Neon recently created a bicycle out of neon tubes inspired by Patrick’s ride, which was designed and manufactured by Alternative Needs Transportation. It’s for the Sony Madison Avenue store.

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]]> http://swayspace.com/blog/2009/08/patricks-neon-bicycle/feed/ 0 The Market at the Old American Can Factory http://swayspace.com/blog/2009/06/the-market-at-the-old-american-can-factory/ http://swayspace.com/blog/2009/06/the-market-at-the-old-american-can-factory/#comments Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:44:14 +0000 Willy http://swayspace.com/blog/?p=248 This Sunday from 11am–6pm Swayspace will be participating in The Market at the Old American Can Factory. We will be selling sets of our antique handset Thank You stationery as well as custom-printing-while-you-wait stationery.

  1. Set of 6 folded Thank You notes – $15
  2. Set of 20 flat customized notecards – $40
  3. Set of 20 folded custom notecards – $45

Here are more details and directions to our building. Come on by and support Brooklyn craft and manufacture!

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]]> http://swayspace.com/blog/2009/06/the-market-at-the-old-american-can-factory/feed/ 2 New Rooftop Films Program Guides http://swayspace.com/blog/2009/05/new-rooftop-films-program-guides/ http://swayspace.com/blog/2009/05/new-rooftop-films-program-guides/#comments Fri, 22 May 2009 22:52:18 +0000 Willy http://swayspace.com/blog/?p=243 Hot off the press – new Program Guides for the 2009 Rooftop Films season.

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]]> http://swayspace.com/blog/2009/05/new-rooftop-films-program-guides/feed/ 0 BMI, BackStory, Hall & Partners Health, and SMP projects http://swayspace.com/blog/2009/04/bmi-backstory-hall-partners-health-and-smp-projects/ http://swayspace.com/blog/2009/04/bmi-backstory-hall-partners-health-and-smp-projects/#comments Thu, 16 Apr 2009 05:49:09 +0000 Willy http://swayspace.com/blog/?p=173 We are happy to share some projects that we added to our website today. Click to see more information and images.

BMI Advertisements
(We already mentioned this, but have added a better photo to the portfolio.)
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BackStory Identity
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Hall & Partners Health
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SMP Career Manual
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]]> http://swayspace.com/blog/2009/04/bmi-backstory-hall-partners-health-and-smp-projects/feed/ 0 Bicycle Messenger http://swayspace.com/blog/2009/03/bicycle-messenger/ http://swayspace.com/blog/2009/03/bicycle-messenger/#comments Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:23:23 +0000 Willy http://swayspace.com/blog/?p=151 Meg on her way to deliver Sarah and Aaron’s wedding invitations:

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]]> http://swayspace.com/blog/2009/03/bicycle-messenger/feed/ 0 BMI Ad in Spin Magazine Hits the Newsstand http://swayspace.com/blog/2009/03/bmi-ad-in-spin-magazine-hits-the-newsstand/ http://swayspace.com/blog/2009/03/bmi-ad-in-spin-magazine-hits-the-newsstand/#comments Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:10:46 +0000 Willy http://swayspace.com/blog/?p=144 We’re happy to announce that the Swayspace-designed Radio Studio ad for BMI is on the shelves. BMI is super pleased. Below is a quick snap of Patrick checking it out in Hudson News.

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The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

Via: Daring Fireball

]]> http://swayspace.com/blog/2009/02/crisis-of-credit-visualized/feed/ 0 Lego-ing New York http://swayspace.com/blog/2009/02/lego-ing-new-york/ http://swayspace.com/blog/2009/02/lego-ing-new-york/#comments Tue, 03 Feb 2009 22:30:13 +0000 Willy http://wordpress.swayspace.com/?p=60 Christoph Niemann has made some pretty sweet Lego “sculptures” of some New York things he’s missing from far-away Berlin.

Christoph Niemann's take on NY in Legos

Via Troy

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