Favicons are small 16 by 16 pixel icons that are associated with websites. They’re usually displayed next the browser’s address bar, in your list of bookmarks and on your open tabs.
They can be especially useful if you’re looking at multiple web pages at once.
If you’re browsing your bookmarks (favourite sites) or picking out a tab when you have 10 or more open, then favicons are the only unique graphic or image that can be utilised by the website’s designer. For this reason, great consideration is often given to designing them.
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Fable © Lionhead Studios
There’s another great looking amperSAND event this month.
This time Andrew Lindsay, Animation Director at Lionhead Studios talks about ‘Game Animation, Art and Technology’, covering the following questions;
- How do artists and animators work within the parameters set by the tech., do those parameters restrict or inspire us?
- What implications does ‘playability’ have for the things we create?
- Can the balance between the two (tech and art) be managed in favour of the art?
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Wipeout HD © Sony Computer Entertainment Europe
amperSAND is a series of lectures run by Swansea Metropolitan University’s School of Digital Media.
Open to students, professionals and hobbyists. The events are a spin off from the successful SAND international conference that is held annually in the autumn.
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