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	<title>Michael Fretz - Interaction Designer</title>
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		<title>Ventana &#8211; Interactive Shop Window &#8211; Bachelor Project</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, retail stores are finding themselves in a fierce competition with e-commerce stores. By bringing the latest technologies to these physical locations, Ventana is trying to provide a solution to this problem. Installed in the shop‘s window, Ventana enables passing potential customers to interact with a digital representation of the store‘s inventory. Now, well informed, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michaelfretz.com/2011/06/11/ventana-interactive-shop-window-bachelor-project/</link>
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		<title>Punkt.Fizen – Android and Arduino powered Bike Navigation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How does one orient oneself while biking, for example as a tourist? You certainly will read traffic signs, ask people for direction or use a tourist-map. But at least the last example will force you to stop the bike. How could we provide a navigation, where the flow remains undisturbed? The user will need a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michaelfretz.com/2011/01/03/punkt-fizen-android-and-arduino-powered-bike-navigation/</link>
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		<title>Breathing Pillow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Guideline The user should be pleasantly guided to sleep to release him from his everyday stress. Basic idea Our pillows will relax the user with a rhythmical movement. We believe the rhythm of the breath can be influenced by the cushions move. The pillow adapts the breathing rate of the user and is then, after [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michaelfretz.com/2010/11/12/breathing-pillow/</link>
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		<title>Color Browse &#8211; iPhone App</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Color Browse is an iPhone application that allows you to easily discover the huge archive of the poster collection of the University of the Arts Zürich. As the average user is rarely familiar with the exact artist names or other search criteria, I decided to pursue an approach that let&#8217;s the user sample a color [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michaelfretz.com/2010/10/24/color-browse-iphone-app/</link>
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		<title>Website for Sridhanwantari published</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Together with my company Cubera Solutions GmbH I published a new client website. It was our first project together with our new graphic designer and friend Michèle Gnos. Building this website with her was a good and successful experience. The website is about Ayurveda therapy in Indonesia, a special therapy for many different problems. Wile [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michaelfretz.com/2010/09/19/website-sridhanwantari-published/</link>
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		<title>WUZU 2010  – The Ice Jewelry Project</title>
		<description><![CDATA[About WUZU10 WUZU is a long-term collaborative program between the Jiangnan University and the Industrial Design department of the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHDK). Alternating every year, one university hosts a joint international summer school. Since its inception in 2004, the WUZU program has stated an example of successful collaboration between Chinese and European [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michaelfretz.com/2010/07/21/wuzu-2010-the-ice-jewelry-project/</link>
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		<title>Shanghai World Expo 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of days ago I had the chance to visit the Expo in Shanghai, China. The Expo site is impressive and unbelievable huge. Same with the amount of people. There are pavilions, for example the Swiss one, on which you have to wait for hours just to go in.  But even without going into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michaelfretz.com/2010/07/10/shanghai-world-expo-2010/</link>
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		<title>Migros Terra Suisse &#8211; Who Is Muh</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The last couple of weeks I had the possibility to work for Jung von Matt, one of the leading advertisement agencies in Europe. I worked on different small projects but mainly on the Migros Terra Suisse Microsite &#8220;Who is Muh&#8221;. What is &#8220;Who is Muh&#8221;? &#8220;Who is Muh&#8221; is an interactive platform for the Migros [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michaelfretz.com/2010/07/10/migros-terra-suisse-who-is-muh/</link>
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		<title>Using AJAX To Load Data From PHP Into Your Website</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago I had to build a web-app for a mobile device. The problem was, that some external input device changed values in a database and I had to make this visible in my web-app. I came across a good solution from the w3c school. The problem was that this only updated with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michaelfretz.com/2010/04/21/using-ajax-to-load-data-from-php-into-your-website/</link>
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		<title>Spot the Dogference</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, Spot the Dogference  came online as a public beta. Time to write a blog post about this project I worked on during my internship at Almer/Blank. What is this game? Spot the Dogference is an online game of spot the difference featuring pictures of dogs. It has 3 levels and one bonus level. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michaelfretz.com/2010/04/07/spot-the-dogference/</link>
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		<title>NOMA-HILFE CD-ROM</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lately I came across an old project I build back in 2008. It‘s not the latest project but for some of you it might be quite interesting to see what I worked on quite some time ago. The project NOMA was a CD-ROM for the Noma-Hilfe Schweiz  which helps poor people with NOMA. I worked [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michaelfretz.com/2010/04/07/noma-hilfe-cd-rom/</link>
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		<title>WUZU 2009 &#8211; Industrial Design with Chinese Students</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last summer I had the change to be part of an international project at the university of the arts with Chinese students. In the project WUZU 2009 we worked in mixed groups of Chinese and Swiss students on Industrial Design projects. The topic was &#8220;Food and Drink&#8221;. For our project about food or drink we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michaelfretz.com/2010/03/14/wuzu-2009-industrial-design-with-chinese-students/</link>
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		<title>Using Terminal For Tracing In Actionscript Projects</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think all of you know how to use trace in a flash project therefore I will target only on how to set up an easy tracing environment. I use terminal to display my traces on my Mac. I think this is an convenient way if you work on a dual screen environment. What do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michaelfretz.com/2010/02/21/using-terminal-for-tracing-in-actionscript-projects/</link>
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		<title>My talk at L.A. Flex User Group Meeting in January</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some of you probably read my article about Font Embedding in Actionscript 3 projects. In the January L.A. Flex User Group meeting, Tom Bray recorded my talk about MojoFont. MojoFont is an Eclipse Plugin for easy Font Embedding in Flex, FDT or Eclipse. It was a good experience to speak to the L.A. Flex group. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michaelfretz.com/2010/02/12/my-talk-at-la-flex-user-group-meeting-in-january/</link>
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		<title>Internship Project 2 : Almer Blank Labs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My second project from the time of my internship which i want to show you is the Almer Blank Labs. This project is currently online and can be seen at labs.almerblank.com. I designed and developed the WordPress Theme. The design goal for me was to create a design which is clean but also gives the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michaelfretz.com/2010/02/08/internship-project-2-almer-blank-labs/</link>
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		<title>Studio Revo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My roommate Junya Sakino is a talented filmmaker here in Los Angeles. In the last couple of days we quickly build his website. The site is WordPress driven and uses a couple different plugins. The website design was created by Junya and I build it into WordPress. I used the capricon theme but changed quite [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michaelfretz.com/2010/02/07/studio-revo/</link>
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		<title>St.Moritz TV</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After being here in Los Angeles for about 7 months I think its time to show you some of the projects I worked on. The first project I want to show you is St Moritz TV. What is this project? The website www.StMoritzTV.ch is a Web TV station with short videos about St. Moritz and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michaelfretz.com/2010/02/04/internship-project-st-moritz-tv/</link>
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		<title>Font Embedding in Actionscript Projects</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While working on Actionscript projects you will have to use fonts quite often. There are many ways how you can embed a font into your project. In this post I will illustrate different ways of how to do that and I would like to demonstrate a very easy way with MojoFont. Example 1: Font Embedding [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michaelfretz.com/2010/01/12/font-embedding-in-actionscript-projects/</link>
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		<title>Book review: Foundation ActionScript 3.0 Image Effects</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This book is one of my favorite Actionscript books. The author writes in an understandable and clear way. The examples are on topic and clear in the understanding. The book covers a wide variety of different aspects in the use of image effects and image processing in Actionscript 3. The target audience are definitely not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michaelfretz.com/2009/12/09/book-review-foundation-actionscript-3-0-image-effects/</link>
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		<title>Change image size in CSS if div tag is smaller than the image</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I run into the problem that I had a div tag with a certain width. From a external site I loaded some content in this div tag. The problem was that I did not have the control over the pictures loaded from this external server. Some pictures where bigger then the size of the div [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michaelfretz.com/2009/11/05/change-image-size-in-css-if-div-tag-is-smaller-than-the-image/</link>
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