Technical Projects, 1996-2006
(This section has been lifted from an earlier webpage, and will be updated eventually.)

In reverse order of creation:

"See Shetland" Guided Minibus Tours
(Web-page creation)

Click here to visit the 'See Shetland' site

Click here for Sarah's A4 advertising leaflet     Click here for Sarah's 2xA5 advertising leaflet

Take a
PDF leaflet!

"You lookin' at ME???"

PROJECT REQUIREMENT:

 

To create a supporting web-page for Sarah McBurnie's
'See Shetland Tours'
mini-bus Shetland sight-seeing tour operation.

(Ongoing project)
'Same sun, different evenings ...'

Basic design:

Webpage:
Self

PDF Leaflets:
Sarah McBurnie / Self

Text & Photos:
Sarah McBurnie/Self
"Hey, Ma - I'm a star!"
Realisation / layout:
Self, after discussion.

Derrick Hales
Financial Planning
(Web-page alterations)


PROJECT REQUIREMENT:

 

To correct, improve and extend an existing web-page, to advertise more effectively a range of Financial Services.

(Ongoing project)

Basic design:
By A.N. Other, at BT Connect.

Realisation / layout:


Self, after discussion with the client.


P.C.TOYs
(Web-page creation)

Click to visit the page

 PROJECT REQUIREMENT:

 To create a simple, compact web-page, to advertise the Pierre Cardin Enfants range of soft toys.
Basic design:
Leonhard Augenstein,
Self
Realisation / layout: Self


Impreline Technologies Ltd:
(Creation of two technical manuals)

Impreline's UK in-place pipeline-rehabilitation manual, which details the method of installation of epoxy-impregnated felt liner material into damaged sewers to effect leak-repair. UK and US versions were created as parts of the same project.
The manuals' contents are proprietary technical information, and the material has therefore been withheld from general display.
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 PROJECT REQUIREMENT:

To create a CD-distributable PDF-format version of the existing (185-page Word 97-format) Impreline Technologies Lateral Lining Manual.

To include a full range of scanned diagrams (supplied in printed form), and some colour photos;

To incorporate an existing colour advertising-brochure into the Manual;

To try to achieve a >45:1 reduction in production and distribution costs, over the original (paper) manual (>48:1 estimated).
Basic text / images/ layout:

 Impreline Technologies Ltd, Self
Realisation, Proof-Reading, Text Corrections and final layout: Self


Eyestone Guitars:
(Web-page creation)

Click to visit the page

 PROJECT REQUIREMENT:

 To create a simple, compact web-page, advertising the Eyestone range of acoustic guitars; this was version 11 (eleven) of the page.
The page is undergoing a rewrite at the moment.
Basic design/layout:
Leonhard Augenstein,
Self
Realisation / guitar video-samples: Self


Half-speed Video on CD:
(Create a personal guitar-tuition resource)

Click HERE for a full-speed clip:
Click this image to see the full-speed RealPlayer clip at 8 fps.
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Click HERE for a half-speed clip:
Click this image to see the same clip at half-speed, again at 8 fps.
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These are compact samples - the 'real things' are in MPG format, and run at 25 fps, 320 x 240 pixels frame-size.

 PROJECT REQUIREMENTS:

To sample and encode video-footage of guitar-players, for puropses of transcribing their music for hobby and personal (non-commercial) use.

To render the results into true half-speed format, where no pitch shift occurs in the music.

To maintain absolute synchronisation between sound and vision on all samples.

To make the samples emulate display on a small (portable) colour-TV, on any Windows 9X PC equipped with a P200 MMX (or faster) CPU.
Research & Design: Self
Realisation: Self


Augenstein Design GmbH
(Image-Scanning Project)

Augenstein Design - 'Concept' products

The images form an 'ideas catalogue-on-CD' of approximately nine years of Augenstein Design GmbH's design activities, in the field of children's toys and other leisure-type equipment.

 

 

 

PROJECT REQUIREMENTS:

 

 

 

 

 To scan and convert 2,300 photographic slides of toy and leisure-equipment designs to JPG-format images on CD-R disk;

To create a clickable-link Access database of the results;

To organise (and assign unique DOS-compatible names to) the original slides.
Materials/scanner: Supplied by Leonhard Augenstein.
Realisation/method: Self


Augenstein Design GmbH
(Web-page alterations)

Click to visit the page

PROJECT REQUIREMENT: To apply slight modifications to text/English translations, within an existing web-page, by suggestion and discussion.

Later modifications included a complete revision of the structure and contents.

The project is ongoing (as at March 2002).