Playing with Stuff

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Website Analysis 1

Shepard Fairey

http://www.obeygiant.com

Shepard Fairey is a graphic designer and artist in Los Angeles.
His portfolio is a commerce site.
The navigation is useable.
The site features clothing, print collections, fine art, and collectable figures.
There are links to social media, messages, propaganda, and social engineering.
He does not display a resume.
Inverting the black background to white could showcase the artwork and text more clearly.

Garrett Matsudaira

http://www.garrettmats.com

Garrett Matsudaira is an experience director and graphic designer in Seattle.
His portfolio site is very simple and clean.
His resume is the main element on his page, with a few examples of his work.
By displaying more content to his page a broader scope of his design work could be illustrated.

Max Olson

http://moxwell.com

Max Olson is a front end web developer and graphic designer in Seattle.
His portfolio site is clean and has a variety of styles displayed to view.
The navigation is simple and direct.
He does not display a resume on his site.
To avoid redundancy, the secondary navigation could be eliminated.

Thursday, January 16, 2014

Week 1 Skills inventory.

Name: Amy Marderosian

Department/Program: Graphic Design

Are you graduating this Quarter? No

If not, current graduation date by Quarter/Year: Fall 2014

What Online Social and Professional networks do you have accounts with: Behance, Linkdin, Coroflot, etc. Behance, linkdin, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace (hah!)

Website URL (if already developed or domain name purchased):

What software experience do you have? (“none” is a perfectly fine answer, depending on your program.) None

Photoshop: Yes

Illustrator: Yes

Dreamweaver: Some

HTML/CSS: No

InDesign: Yes

Other: Adobe bridge, Office Products

Explain your objective for the class to the best of your knowledge:I hope to gain the knowledge required to design and publish my portfolio online.