Richard Summerhayes Blog

You can never have too many ActionScript books, at least in my experience it always helps to have multiple takes on explaining a technique or solution. At current count I have 8 AS3 books and 1 pdf edition of the AS3 programmers guide from the Adobe Flash team. So here’s a brief rundown of each, their strengths and weaknesses, and whom they are most suitable for.

I would like to add that I leant AS3 from the point of view of being a designer and flash IDE user. My view of the books are skewed towards this view, as opposed to coming from a programing background.

Essential ActionScript … Continue Reading

Can hardly start a blog about New Media with out chiming in on what it is. For me New Media Design refers to design created by digital tools and is most commonly outputted in a digital format. I say most commonly because as a New Media designer I’ll also create work that ends up in a printed format. But what’s key is that everything is created and manipulated digitally.

Think web design, motion graphics, video-editing, audio production, graphic design, flash design, animation, and interface design to name a few.

The digital revolution has enabled Graphic Designers of the 20th century, become New Media Designers in … Continue Reading