Playing with Stuff

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Concept Statement

Name your intended audience (the person(s) you need to persuade

Employers in Seattle seeking clean design, dedicated craftsmanship,
and attention to detail.

Describe what you need to inform and persuade them of:

My abilities and fidelity to design.

To promote my:

Skills for taking on challenging tasks with a steady stance
and determination.

The goals of the site are:

My goal with the site is to relay a broad spectrum of styles intended
illustrate my skills in design, layout, color use, writing, originality,
mimicking, and restyling.

The ultimate message/philosophy (about who you are):

I am a detail oriented, hard working, dedicated person.

What is the story you are telling?

I would like an easy to navigate website that is scalable and does
not require the user to click the "back" button in the browser to see
more stuff. The style will be organic in feel; as well as I am able to
do on a computer.

What descriptive words can you use to describe the ‘vibe’ of your site:

‘smokey’, ‘arid’,

Clean, simple.

List the assets you need to persuade the user: Which 7 (minimum)
projects? scans of what?, photos of what objects? images from what
computer graphics program? what descriptive text? list them.

Business cabinet restyle (graphic design)

Posters (graphic design)

Brochure (graphic design)

Illustrated works (graphic design)

Logos (graphic design)

Creative writing projects

Eventually, typography (next quarter)

For the purpose of structuring your website portfolio pages, list the
categories of work you will show.

Layout

Logo

Illustration

Typography

Writing

Resume

Concept Statement:

The concept is to design a functional webpage containing works of design I have completed. The layout will be clean and simple to navigate, with a broad spectrum of works to engage the viewer and illustrate my competency. Parallax scrolling will be used as well a scalable grid format to enable the viewers’ access on mobile, tablet, and computer to have a consistent look and feel. The colors and scheme will remain neutral, allowing the illustrations to be the primary focus. The site will contain examples of: Layout, Logo, Illustration, Typography, and Writing as well as a Resume. Due to the evolving nature of graphic design, updates will be made on a regular basis to show the most current works. My hope is to offer an enjoyable experience.

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.