Websites and Why

http://www.gaiaonline.com/

I like the tool bar , its a good way to have images plus type in the top part of the screen.

http://www.organic.com/
clean way to use boxes and not a lot of clutter. Simple and to the point

http://www.apple.com/
simple clean, easy and not over complicated

http://www.loveisrespect.org/
I like the way the name of the website is incorporated into the links at the top.

http://eyesondarfur.org/
simple clean layout with good images and text together, nice way to organize information as well

https://www.artocracy.org/
interesting and different way to explore information on the page


http://www.oddwall.com/#.html
I liked how the navigation bar worked at the bottom.

http://www.lafilm.com/flash/index.html
way awesome intro, that incorportated the links into a complex image that worked, and was remarkably easy to read.

http://www.veer.com/ideas/typecity/land.aspx
nice and simple tool bar, clean, and not overly cuttered

http://www.lowebrindfors.se/showroom/artois/lepassage/
liked the color scheme

FINAL VIDEO!!!!!

Reading 4 Outline

.Find out the inner workings of the organization
.business hierarchy
.client history
.diagram the process
.make sure everyone understands where the fall in the chain of command
and what they are responsible for
.don't get caught up in false urgency
.understand your audience
.organize your information in a way that everyone working on the project
has easy access and understanding of it

Things to consider

physical aspects
.how will people interact with it?
.what does your audience like?
.does your audience like to read?
.will they read it quickly or over time?
.will it be read repeatedly?
.what are the age factors or restrictions?

Content
.market research
.review previous work
.find competitors

Review While Developing
.do you have everything you need
.stay engaged
.cement relationships

Prototypes and Testing

.keep diagramming and everyone informed
.make a site map

Thursday Crit.

my message is powerful but I could repeat 3 trillion somewhere, or tie it in better.
.make sure people know that it a collection of things not individual
.music great!
.impactful ending
.more pop in the opening, play with scale
.fix awkward shifts between scenes
.minor polishing of motions
.2nd fact stays on too long
.some green and black and grey not diagonal
.instead of words piling up, try scrolling up
.world hunger part too fast
.bump up the volume on the beginning visually
.move oil photo up
.maybe 3 tril gets really big?
.repeat three things in the list
.good end

Video Update

So this is what I have for tomorrow... Check it out!

I want to love you tender

Check this out, this really has nothing to do with anything other than I find it really funny. Whenever I am having a bad day.... I check out this video.

Library Poster

So I was commissioned to design a poster for the Library's Monthly gathering of some kind and when I say I was commissioned I mean my boss at the library said instead of scanning books all day today, I could design a poster for their monthly get pot luck.... I'm taking what I can get, so here it is. I thought I would go ahead and post it just because I have 15 more mins in my shift and I don't know how many more times I can search google for laderhosen and schnitzel.

I GOT IN TO THE NATION GEOGRAPHIC DAILY DOZEN!!!!!!! ONE OF THE ACTUAL PHOTO EDITORS AT NATGEO LOOKED AT MY WORK AND OUT OF ALL THE PHOTOS THTA SHE SAW YESTERDAY MINE WAS IN THE TOP 12!!!!1
LINK

heres a screen shot of it on the home page!

It's sort of funny, I got a bad review on this print from Pok Chi last week and he told me to re-shoot and that I wasn't being illustrative... so HA! It's a long shot but I am now being considered to be published in National Geographic... hahahhahahahhah to you Pok!

PS Pok announced that he has given an ultimatum to the higher ups that if they don't eradicate the darkroom and traditional photo program down stairs he is leaving KU. I am not happy at all about this. He claims it is for environmental reasons, granted the darkroom downstairs could turn off the water on more occasions than it does, but he was making a case or darkroom materials polluting the water supply and killing all the fish in the river. My argument back to him is I can guarantee that the chemicals that go in to making lithium batteries and the waste of people throwing them away afterword is much worse. Not to mention the electricity it takes to power all the computers and printers night and day and the waste that goes into making all those digital cameras that are obsolete after two years, all of this is much worse than the dark room downstairs. Also in the conventional world people recycle their old equipment, because even after 25 years it still works, cameras, enlargers ect. I have owned three digital cameras in my life and only one film. I can still use my film camera but I know in about 3 years I will be begging for a new digital.

my video so far...

so here is what I have so far. I know there is a big chunk of white space in the middle that I haven't resolved yet, but I am getting to it. My first task is to work on my type and how they relate to my graphics and fix my tool bar. I figured out how to get the numbers to scroll during my video, but now I either have to have them increase by a higher interval or figure out how to speed them up so they look like they reach 3 trillion by the end of my video... So i guess I have my work cut out for me. As for now I think I am going to go home and sketch out how I want my type to look through out the movie and then try and animate it. It is proving to be annoying trying to animate while I am not sure how I want to it look in the end as well as time consuming.

The Grammar of Ornament

I found this blog called Brank Spanking New, and he has some really interesting design objects on his blog, but this was the one that caught my eye. I know most of use have either a. gone through history of design b. are in it now and we talked about Owen Jones': The Grammar of Ornament and apparently someone has scanned it in and put it on flickr. I thought it was really interesting, a lot more interesting than the 2 slides the professor showed us in class.

Reading Outline

1. organize your ideas
2. make visible
3. place it in the proper context
4. simplify simplify simplify
5. add redundancy, but not too much so that it is boring, but enough to make it recognizable
6. show cause and effect
7. what is it compared to?
8. multiply dimensions, show more than one idea in a clear way
9. integrate, cohesion

Museum Design: max out limited space

I'm in the middle of a photo project for my digital class and I'm doing an interpretive portrait. What I am trying to portray is sort of the mysterious primitive person inside my subject that effects who he is. Sort of putting a physical image to the person he is inside, that has more of a wild nature and isn't necessarily refined. Pok keeps trying to get me to make this more about a primitive vs. modern, but I'm not really looking to compare a primitive to modern. He also keeps telling me to keep pushing the envelope and make it more dramatic and more editorial, so I'm confused. If anyone has any suggestions on where I should go with this, or just general impressions it would be really helpful.

PS: these photographs are not really meant to be seen on a small scale so if you click them they should get bigger

To suggest List

I don't know what I want to suggest with the visual identity but here is what I have so far.

.informative
.clear
.somewhat playful,but its a somber message.. i dunno
.simple
.clean lines
.very graphic style
.easy to read
.influential

Amazing Posters

Reading Question

What I found interesting in the reading is when they were talking about how information is being transfered, and viewed in todays world. The use of portable devices for searching the web even has become very popular. I have actually met people who instead of paying for internet on their home computer, they just pay for their phones to have internet all the time and only surf the web on their phone... I have two questions:

How many of you people surf the web on their phone daily?

Do you think that one day that the home computer will be obsolete? Is the way of the future only lap tops and cell phones and if so how is that going to effect the internet market?

Sorry that was way more than two.. but it made me think...

Story Boards

Colors and Possible Fonts

I like these colors, but I cannot decide if I want to do a hand drawn typeface or if I want to go really rigid in my fonts. I think it will depend on the illustrations, but I know what I want to sort of look like, I think...

Info Graphics

I found a blog that is devoted to info graphics. They have some interesting things, its worth a look.
I really liked this one especially. I'm not sure if it is technically an infographic, but I like the style of combining something photographically real to create another image.