Website Construction

 

Splash Page - This would show once you typed in the website address.

  

Home Page - The homepage displays three links shown. I have kept the website very simple as the viewer then would need to interact with it to see any work.

 

  

Work - As the viewer looks at the work displayed, as the scroll down only the work will blind upwards keeping all the information in the same place.

  

Links - The links are provided so you can jump to the company's i have created work for, this would just link them to their website.

  

Bio & Contact -  This will display contact information and show a picture of myself (if good enough). This would stay as cross between bio and contact.

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Project Requirements

• Purpose - online presence for portfolio. (increase profile - standard work)

• Target Audience - employers - potential clients - other designers - other designers (like minded) - further education - stockists

• Audience Needs - work - identity - contact details - prices - feedback/examples 

Content 
Online
Everyone - disability - screen readability

Fonts
Clear/readable

Examples 

www.ollymoss.com  
clear
navigation - simple

www.standardimage.jp
unusual
not standardized - layout points

www.contrast.ie
personal
image based
interesting

www.jet-pac-org
blog

www.cabanpress.com
simple
not legable (gallery)
hand rendered

Layout - balance - flow - alignment - resolution - grids

Type - font size - legibility - standard fonts - font stacks (replace font with another)


Colour - RGB - websafe - hexadecimal code ( white #FFFFFF )

Navagation - clear/simple - consistant (fixed) - in context

Rules

Resolution - 800 x 600 px (fixed) or (scrollable)

Site Plan.
Sketch
Mock-up (photoshop)

Route Folder - (user work) (digital file - everything)
- new folder
- sub filder (inside route folder)
any images for website

Scripting
HTML
Coldfusion
PHP
CSS - cascading style sheets
Javascript

Define your website location of route folder.

Identity?

  

'Creative Dyslexic' came around in my first year at uni. It was during a magazine spread brief we did where we created double page spreads based on another member in the group. For my research I looked at Creative Review, one issue of creative review had an article on dyslexics, how they saw words and spell words incorrectly... (sometimes) ... since then I have thought of using 'Creative Dyslexic' as an identity, ... i am dyslexic and a creative.  why not.

  

I had one idea which I still like but not sure. This idea was to spell dyslexic wrong (on purpose). i asked a few people in my group and a mixture of them said yes and no. 

This idea is obviously because of dyslexics spelling errors.

Dyslexic or Dyslxeic   ?

  

  

 

 

 

  

Business Card- typography elective

As I have this done I may as well include it on my business card for my elective.

Briefs

We were asked to choose three briefs for the YCN Student Awards 2009/10.

First brief - What we as a collaborative partnership what to undertake,

Second Brief - What we don't want to undertake

Third Brief - A brief we would choose to undertake individually.  

Once we had decided which one to undertake, we were then asked to re-write the first and second brief in our own words to make it short and sweet. 

These are the two briefs we have re-written. 

The first is one we have both decided not to undertake. The reason for this was that it didn't seem clear on what P&O wanted us to produce (deliverables). 

The brief we did choose was for the British Music Experience. This brief seemed very interesting, broad, diverse, we could both bring different skills into the project, had a huge target audience and we are not restrained on deliverables.

Lets go!

advertising myself

 

  

Two posters that advertise myself an another to show what I am looking for in a creative partner.

Rationale

My brief was to design and produce a set of five TV idents that promoted a season of films from a given genre such as, Sci-Fi Classics, Lo-fi Horror, Film Noir, Silent Movies, ‘Nam, CGI, 80’S teen movies.

My aim was to promote the subject, concept, content and mood of the season of films in a way that engaged an audience who maybe about to switch channel.

As my favourite genre of film was comedy, I decided to base the movie season on this chosen subject, however as I started to research into this I found this was to broad. I took this to my first crit and I addressed this to my fellow graphic designers. After some positive feedback It came to a conclusion that I was to narrow this idea down and focus on a particular group of comedy films, for example This could be comedy films made/directed my the same person/s or a trilogy. I started off thinking about my favourite comedy films and immediately thought of the Monty Python films.

My target audience needed to be interested in my chosen subject, if they did or did not  know what Monty Python was, so adding the Monty Python sarcastic and witty style from the start would be very visually engaging for both these audiences.

My tone of voice I feel was successful. The Idents gave a clear visual understanding of the humour of what the films are like. My choice of timing and movement with the imagery and type works well in the overall feel of the content and also refers to Terry Gilliam animations used at the beginning titles of their films. These pushed the boundaries of what was acceptable in style and content.

Creating the DVD and using After Effects was a hard and a challenging task, especially understanding the technicality of the software and organisation techniques, however it has been a great learning opportunity and has opened up new opportunities for future brief/tasks. I believe the outcome was a success.

If I were to develop this further I would look in to the animation technique used by Terry Gilliam in more depth, This proved difficult for the time I had, however using the time I did have I decided to give these idents a new clean look and only adding certain key imagery.


Peter Sands