FRIDAY 23RD JANUARY 2009
This project was a big challenge for me. I was expecting it to be, I knew I would be okay, but I was expecting a challenge, mainly based on my Flash Statistics project last year. There is so much to learn, but once you have put the time in to learn it and understand it, it starts to become easier. I put a lot of work into it, and succeeded in the end. Flash and Dreamweaver are different in terms of the type of project, without stating the obvious. The time spent on the computer is longer and the things you actually have to do take longer too. You can also spend such a long time trying to fix something and it turns out to be a tiny thing - such as my border not working in Safari because Safari only recognises whole numbers (i.e. 1px instead of 0.5px) - this is something that you just have to know, which is why forums are really helpful. By the end of this project I was really up to speed with what I was doing and really started to understand things.
Because I used a non websafe font, I had to make images for all my buttons and text instead of creating the text in Dreamweaver. This worked fine, but, it did mean spending a lot more time creating the images, and their hover states. It also limited me in terms of my gallery - the navigation buttons worked as images, but it had some glitches, so I decided to use websafe font Geneva for those because you couldn't really tell the difference in Dreamweaver, however, once previewed in safari the font didn't look the same as in Dreamweaver. It was the nearest one so I had to make use it.
For my menu buttons I used Existence Unicase in Upper Case size 13.5pt (the unicase upper caps version made the font smaller and more solid in colour). For the brief descriptions and the text on my about me and contact me pages, I used Existence Light 12pt Lower case. I asked a few people what they thought, as I felt that I should use the upper case unicase version. I know that CAPS aren't a good idea in blocks of text, but I felt it was clearer, but the general response was that the lower case worked better, which I could see. Now, in hindsight and after looking at it more, I feel that it doesn't work so well and doesn't look right. I think this is something I will re-visit at a later date and amend, or try something else.
I borrowed the kit from Photography to take some photos of my packaging, bookbinding and greetings cards - I thought they would come out well as there was a lighting kit, but they didn't come out that well really. The lighting kit and white background didn't provide enough light. When I looked at them on the computer, they had a dark tinge to them. If I am honest, the photos I took a couple of weeks ago using natural light worked so much better, but they weren't against a white background so I didn't want to put them on my site. I edited the pictures in Photoshop, but there is still a rose coloured glow to a couple of them. I will re-take these images using natural light against a white background.
Overall I am happy with my website - especially as it is my first attempt at building one! I feel I have learnt so many things and can take what I have learnt and the mistakes I have made and go on to make other websites. I will be much quicker now I know what I am doing and I really feel I have learnt a lot. I think when you don't know a piece of software, you work hard and put a lot into it. There is so much pressure to learn it, and to build the site by the deadline.
The Dreamweaver course we did last year taught us the basics. I revisited the work I did and the notes I made. I also did some tutorials (www.willgoldstone.com) which were really helpful. You can learn Dreamweaver, but the only real way to learn it properly is to build a site and learn from your mistakes and the problems you come up against and have to solve. These are things you can't really be taught and so are very valuable!
Showing posts with label Online Portfolio Brief. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Online Portfolio Brief. Show all posts
all handed in!!!
FRIDAY 23RD JANUARY 2009
I have just handed in my project!!
Neil uploaded my site again this morning and it is all working fine!
I have just handed in my project!!
Neil uploaded my site again this morning and it is all working fine!
another update [online portfolio]
THURSDAY 22ND JANUARY 2009
In my CSS for my site I had applied a background colour to my body div so that it filled the whole browser window - I greyed this out a couple of weeks ago (put /* and */ before and after) in order to allow me to still see the edges of my site to line things up neatly. I made the background active again and then felt that the site was kind of lost. It is centred to the browser window, but you can't tell where the edges are. Its okay when you are in a gallery because that gives a clear indication of the edges of the website, but if you are on a menu page, or the my work page then it looks lost. I decided to put a border at the bottom of my left and right columns just to contact my site in. Initially I applied a 0.5px white border, this was fine when previewed in Firefox, but it didn't show up in Safari. So, I changed it to 1px instead which worked. Neil said Safari probably only reads round numbers.
It is looking like a site now, all the brief descriptions are on too. For my menu bar and menus I used Existence Unicase in CAPS - my briefs are in Existence Light but in lower case. I asked a few people what they thought and they preferred it in lower case as it is. But the more I look at it the more I want to change it to the same font as the menu bars. I know that blocks of CAPS can be hard to read, but I would still like to try it because something doesn't feel right about it.
Jo uploaded my site towards the end of the day:
www.visualcommunication.org/victoria_martin/
I checked it and the gallery for my Summer Photographs wasnt working. Neil came and had a look at my images and my code and said that it was simply because the filepath for the images was images/Flowers01.jpg but in my code I had written it as images/flowers01.jpg - I had written flowers with a lower case 'f' but the actual image was saved with an upper case 'F'.
I have amended everything, and also checked that my statcounter script is in there. It is now ready for uploading again ... phew!
In my CSS for my site I had applied a background colour to my body div so that it filled the whole browser window - I greyed this out a couple of weeks ago (put /* and */ before and after) in order to allow me to still see the edges of my site to line things up neatly. I made the background active again and then felt that the site was kind of lost. It is centred to the browser window, but you can't tell where the edges are. Its okay when you are in a gallery because that gives a clear indication of the edges of the website, but if you are on a menu page, or the my work page then it looks lost. I decided to put a border at the bottom of my left and right columns just to contact my site in. Initially I applied a 0.5px white border, this was fine when previewed in Firefox, but it didn't show up in Safari. So, I changed it to 1px instead which worked. Neil said Safari probably only reads round numbers.
It is looking like a site now, all the brief descriptions are on too. For my menu bar and menus I used Existence Unicase in CAPS - my briefs are in Existence Light but in lower case. I asked a few people what they thought and they preferred it in lower case as it is. But the more I look at it the more I want to change it to the same font as the menu bars. I know that blocks of CAPS can be hard to read, but I would still like to try it because something doesn't feel right about it.
Jo uploaded my site towards the end of the day:
www.visualcommunication.org/victoria_martin/
I checked it and the gallery for my Summer Photographs wasnt working. Neil came and had a look at my images and my code and said that it was simply because the filepath for the images was images/Flowers01.jpg but in my code I had written it as images/flowers01.jpg - I had written flowers with a lower case 'f' but the actual image was saved with an upper case 'F'.
I have amended everything, and also checked that my statcounter script is in there. It is now ready for uploading again ... phew!
update ...
WEDNESDAY 21 JANUARY 2009
I had to work today so wasn't in uni but I came in after work to do some more on my website. I have been on a roll lately with it so felt the urge to come in and carry on with it. I have spent a long time editing photos etc of my work to put in my galleries. I used the kit from photography to photograph my greetings cards, packaging and some book binding. Once I got them on the computer they were quite dark. I think its because it was set up in the downstairs room in the corner, rather than the upstairs room which was near a window. Even though there was a light, I think it still needs natural light. To be honest, my photos I took on the table with no lighting kit or backdrop etc came out much better - I am going to re-take them when I get a chance, just on a table near a window with some white card as the backdrop - I think this will work much better, strangely.
I played around with the images in Photoshop to try and brighten them up and remove some of the rose/red tint that seems to be in some of them and try and restore the white background. The backdrop kit was so tiny that in the photos I nearly always cos some edging of the backdrop in them, so I used the clone tool to remove this as best I could.
All my images are nearly done, I have been uploading them to my galleries as I go along, only a couple left!
I had to work today so wasn't in uni but I came in after work to do some more on my website. I have been on a roll lately with it so felt the urge to come in and carry on with it. I have spent a long time editing photos etc of my work to put in my galleries. I used the kit from photography to photograph my greetings cards, packaging and some book binding. Once I got them on the computer they were quite dark. I think its because it was set up in the downstairs room in the corner, rather than the upstairs room which was near a window. Even though there was a light, I think it still needs natural light. To be honest, my photos I took on the table with no lighting kit or backdrop etc came out much better - I am going to re-take them when I get a chance, just on a table near a window with some white card as the backdrop - I think this will work much better, strangely.
I played around with the images in Photoshop to try and brighten them up and remove some of the rose/red tint that seems to be in some of them and try and restore the white background. The backdrop kit was so tiny that in the photos I nearly always cos some edging of the backdrop in them, so I used the clone tool to remove this as best I could.
All my images are nearly done, I have been uploading them to my galleries as I go along, only a couple left!
How today went...
MONDAY 19TH JANUARY 2009
Well today I had a really good day! I have finally got my site on track - the gallery is working just fine (simple but what I wanted). I spent today loading galleries and their images onto each project page. I have a couple left to do. Apart from that it is just a case of creating the 'project description' images and loading them on, then I am done!
The further my site gets, the more I think I should have gone with my gut instinct and done it with a white background. I love sites with a white background - they look really nice and I feel it suits my work.
I think that once this site is finished, which won't be long now, I am going to re-create the same thing with a white background - it will just be a case of changing the image buttons and re-loading, and then changing the background.
Tomorrow I have a good idea of what I need to do and should be finished by the end of the day and then I can tidy up my sketchbook ready for the deadline. I have been working in it as I go along, there are just a few bits of paper and things that need sticking in.
It is the Course Board meeting tomorrow at 2pm. Me, Luke and Nick are doing it. Luke and I handed out some questionnaires to everyone in our year. We got loads of feedback so we will have lots to discuss at the meeting!
I will update tomorrow!
Well today I had a really good day! I have finally got my site on track - the gallery is working just fine (simple but what I wanted). I spent today loading galleries and their images onto each project page. I have a couple left to do. Apart from that it is just a case of creating the 'project description' images and loading them on, then I am done!
The further my site gets, the more I think I should have gone with my gut instinct and done it with a white background. I love sites with a white background - they look really nice and I feel it suits my work.
I think that once this site is finished, which won't be long now, I am going to re-create the same thing with a white background - it will just be a case of changing the image buttons and re-loading, and then changing the background.
Tomorrow I have a good idea of what I need to do and should be finished by the end of the day and then I can tidy up my sketchbook ready for the deadline. I have been working in it as I go along, there are just a few bits of paper and things that need sticking in.
It is the Course Board meeting tomorrow at 2pm. Me, Luke and Nick are doing it. Luke and I handed out some questionnaires to everyone in our year. We got loads of feedback so we will have lots to discuss at the meeting!
I will update tomorrow!
Web Space
SUNDAY 18TH JANUARY 2009
James Ramsay posted a link on the Vis Com Blog for free/cheap webspace!! I will definatly need this at some point so am blogging it too for reference ... thanks James!!
www.one.com
James Ramsay posted a link on the Vis Com Blog for free/cheap webspace!! I will definatly need this at some point so am blogging it too for reference ... thanks James!!
www.one.com
ISTD update
FRIDAY 16TH JANUARY 2009
I have to be honest and say that ISTD has taken a bit of a back seat whilst I have been working on my website. We have had a dreamweaver course, but it only showed us the real basics, I have spent a lot of time teaching myself things and learning things off other people on my course - because I have found this project a challenge (building the site) I have focused a lot of time on it, especially as its our last project before our Final Major Project. We are being graded on this so I really need to spend a lot of time on it. Its a shame really, it would have been great if we did a website project last year because our marks don't carry over. It has been a struggle for a lot of people. It would have been nice to have done this last year as a practice, like we did with our flash animation, and then been able to do it this year with more knowledge. I was starting to wish I had build my site in Flash because I got quite comfortable using it last year, but it has its downsides for websites so I chose Dreamweaver.
I really need to start working more on ISTD, this will be the first thing on my list once I have handed my website in.
I have to be honest and say that ISTD has taken a bit of a back seat whilst I have been working on my website. We have had a dreamweaver course, but it only showed us the real basics, I have spent a lot of time teaching myself things and learning things off other people on my course - because I have found this project a challenge (building the site) I have focused a lot of time on it, especially as its our last project before our Final Major Project. We are being graded on this so I really need to spend a lot of time on it. Its a shame really, it would have been great if we did a website project last year because our marks don't carry over. It has been a struggle for a lot of people. It would have been nice to have done this last year as a practice, like we did with our flash animation, and then been able to do it this year with more knowledge. I was starting to wish I had build my site in Flash because I got quite comfortable using it last year, but it has its downsides for websites so I chose Dreamweaver.
I really need to start working more on ISTD, this will be the first thing on my list once I have handed my website in.
Final Website Critique
FRIDAY 16TH JANUARY 2009
We had our final crit today for our online portfolios. It went well I think, we literally just had to show on screen where we had got to. There were no changes I needed to make, the gallery isn't working at this point, its what I am focusing on at the moment, it has been causing me quite a few problems today!
I want a really simple gallery, but the ones on the internet all seem to be so complicated or flashy. I don't want to have thumbnails of my work - the main reason being I find them hard to navigate when I use them, the thumbnails are so small they don't really show much of the work. After spending all day today trying to sort my gallery out, I have decided to leave the one I wanted to use and try and build mine using image swap ... fingers crossed it will work!
I really enjoy the building of the site, once I know what I am doing, but when I get stuck it is very stressful - I just hope that I don't forget everything I have learnt, because like with anything I guess, its easy when you know how!!
We had our final crit today for our online portfolios. It went well I think, we literally just had to show on screen where we had got to. There were no changes I needed to make, the gallery isn't working at this point, its what I am focusing on at the moment, it has been causing me quite a few problems today!
I want a really simple gallery, but the ones on the internet all seem to be so complicated or flashy. I don't want to have thumbnails of my work - the main reason being I find them hard to navigate when I use them, the thumbnails are so small they don't really show much of the work. After spending all day today trying to sort my gallery out, I have decided to leave the one I wanted to use and try and build mine using image swap ... fingers crossed it will work!
I really enjoy the building of the site, once I know what I am doing, but when I get stuck it is very stressful - I just hope that I don't forget everything I have learnt, because like with anything I guess, its easy when you know how!!
CSS info and code
TUESDAY 13TH JANUARY 2009
www.w3schools.com/css
This site gives you the code for general things in CSS, such as borders, tables etc etc
www.w3schools.com/css
This site gives you the code for general things in CSS, such as borders, tables etc etc
13 Awesome Javascript Menu's
TUESDAY 13TH JANUARY 2009
James showed me the link to this site which has 13 'awesome javascript menu's' on it.
I am worrying a little bit because I was a sliding menu, but due to the non websafe font I am using, each menu item is going to be an image - I need to research into this to try and find out whether I can replace the text for a menu item with an image!!
13 Awesome Javascript Menu's
This is the expanding and collapsing menu I am going to use.
Looking at the code, I hope to be able to replace the text with images.
James showed me the link to this site which has 13 'awesome javascript menu's' on it.
I am worrying a little bit because I was a sliding menu, but due to the non websafe font I am using, each menu item is going to be an image - I need to research into this to try and find out whether I can replace the text for a menu item with an image!!
13 Awesome Javascript Menu's
This is the expanding and collapsing menu I am going to use.
Looking at the code, I hope to be able to replace the text with images.
Photoshop Tutorials ... saving images to use as buttons on website
TUESDAY 13TH JANUARY 2009
I just queried with Neil how to go about saving text for my links etc on my website, as images to use as buttons on my website. He has confirmed I will need to save them as transparent gifs and this will be fine. He also sent me 2 tutorials that I am going to have a look at now ...
http://www.photoshopforce.com/tutorials/create-transparent-images/index.php
http://www.mediacollege.com/adobe/photoshop/transparent/gif.html
I just queried with Neil how to go about saving text for my links etc on my website, as images to use as buttons on my website. He has confirmed I will need to save them as transparent gifs and this will be fine. He also sent me 2 tutorials that I am going to have a look at now ...
http://www.photoshopforce.com/tutorials/create-transparent-images/index.php
http://www.mediacollege.com/adobe/photoshop/transparent/gif.html
Online Portfolio Update & ISTD
MONDAY 12TH JANUARY 2009
I spent today tidying up the design of my website, and the navigation. I know how I want the site to work, I was just struggling to settle on names for categorising my menu sections. With this all now settled, I can start building my site!
As mentioned in a previous blog, James McMorrow posted a link to some Dreamweaver tutorials by Will Goldstone. I went through these this evening as I thought they would be a useful reminder for me! Especially for the random little do's and don'ts, such as certain coding rules that you need to learn and things that you just have to do for your website to work. The tutorials were brilliant!! They helped so much. Its the basics and a little bit more. The rest of it is down to design and general rejigging. A lot of it was to do with having editable body text for each page, which isn't relevant for my site as I am going to load my buttons and small amounts of text as images in order to allow me to use my chosen font which isn't websafe. I have experimented with using a websafe font such as Helvetica, but it takes away from my design and so I am going about it in this way. I had a chat with Neil and he confirmed for me that the 'images' I load up for my buttons won't cause any problems such as slow loading of my site. So, with all this is mind, and those reminder tutorials under my belt, its all systems go!
Tomorrow afternoon I am photographing some of my work, as there are certain pieces that I would prefer to be on the site as photos, rather than the actual document. I also need to photograph my greetings cards and my hand made book.
I am also in contact with Rob Farrelly. Since the email he sent me after I blogged his site we have exchanged a few emails. It is interesting to hear about the course he did and how he found it, also what he is doing now he has graduated!
This weekend I am going to dedicate some time to ISTD. This has taken a bit of a back seat while I sorted out my website, but now this is ready to be built, I can do that, and then take breaks and concentrate on ISTD. I have been regularly researching and recording information since the last blog post about it. It is nearly in the stages of design now. I got some interested data at the weekend as I went to London with George, Luke, Lauren and Lewis. I did some people watching on the train and got a few interesting chunks of info that I can use! I am now getting more excited about his as the data I have collected grows!
I spent today tidying up the design of my website, and the navigation. I know how I want the site to work, I was just struggling to settle on names for categorising my menu sections. With this all now settled, I can start building my site!
As mentioned in a previous blog, James McMorrow posted a link to some Dreamweaver tutorials by Will Goldstone. I went through these this evening as I thought they would be a useful reminder for me! Especially for the random little do's and don'ts, such as certain coding rules that you need to learn and things that you just have to do for your website to work. The tutorials were brilliant!! They helped so much. Its the basics and a little bit more. The rest of it is down to design and general rejigging. A lot of it was to do with having editable body text for each page, which isn't relevant for my site as I am going to load my buttons and small amounts of text as images in order to allow me to use my chosen font which isn't websafe. I have experimented with using a websafe font such as Helvetica, but it takes away from my design and so I am going about it in this way. I had a chat with Neil and he confirmed for me that the 'images' I load up for my buttons won't cause any problems such as slow loading of my site. So, with all this is mind, and those reminder tutorials under my belt, its all systems go!
Tomorrow afternoon I am photographing some of my work, as there are certain pieces that I would prefer to be on the site as photos, rather than the actual document. I also need to photograph my greetings cards and my hand made book.
I am also in contact with Rob Farrelly. Since the email he sent me after I blogged his site we have exchanged a few emails. It is interesting to hear about the course he did and how he found it, also what he is doing now he has graduated!
This weekend I am going to dedicate some time to ISTD. This has taken a bit of a back seat while I sorted out my website, but now this is ready to be built, I can do that, and then take breaks and concentrate on ISTD. I have been regularly researching and recording information since the last blog post about it. It is nearly in the stages of design now. I got some interested data at the weekend as I went to London with George, Luke, Lauren and Lewis. I did some people watching on the train and got a few interesting chunks of info that I can use! I am now getting more excited about his as the data I have collected grows!
Note to self...
THURSDAY 8TH JANUARY 2009
I had an email today from Robert Farrelly thanking me for linking to him on my blog! I spoke to Neil and he explained that with the webspace Rob has he will be able to see where external links are coming from and who is 'blogging' and visiting his site. I want to make sure I have this facility when I am hosting my portfolio site. It is a really good to monitor who is visiting your site and where in the world they are, and, as Robs email has proved, it is a useful way of networking too!
I had an email today from Robert Farrelly thanking me for linking to him on my blog! I spoke to Neil and he explained that with the webspace Rob has he will be able to see where external links are coming from and who is 'blogging' and visiting his site. I want to make sure I have this facility when I am hosting my portfolio site. It is a really good to monitor who is visiting your site and where in the world they are, and, as Robs email has proved, it is a useful way of networking too!
Long overdue ... Update
TUESDAY 30TH DECEMBER 2008
I have just got computer and internet access back so am going to write a long overdue update on things since the end of term.
ONLINE PORTFOLIO:
This project has been such a big challenge for me. The main problem I have had is how to brand myself. I didn't want to use my name, mainly because I don't like how it sounds. I thought about using Victoria Martin on its own, but I never call myself that so it seemed silly to. After much thought and deliberation I came up with Berri Design. My thought process behind this started with fruit as a name, and then ended up as Berry being a nice word on its own but then from a design point of view, I much preferred how 'Berri' looked as opposed to 'Berry' when placed next to the word 'design'. This wasn't a factor in my thought process at all, but 'Berry' is the name of my friends daughter, so it also has meaning to me.
berri design - i think it looks nice and sounds nice
We had a crit at the end of term with Neil. I had some example layouts of how I wanted my website to look and be navigated. Neil suggested that a white background might be a bit boring and that maybe I could look at textures, such as hand made paper. I think this is a nice idea, but after further consideration, I really like white backgrounds on website, they don't take away from the images. I also think that it is more suited to an illustrators website maybe? I will look into it and see what I can find, but I really am keen on a plain white background - it fits with me as a designer and my style. I am also a bit of a control freak and a textured background would probably make me anxious, I like structure and organisation, so I feel that I need a site that shows this.
After further thinking, I have gone back to the idea of branding myself as 'victoria martin'. My website will be a certain colour scheme and layout and these have been chosen on the type of designer I am and the things I like, the name isn't going to have an effect on they way my site looks etc. So, I think it can be easily changed if need be.
ISTD
I went into Bournemouth to do my people watching for the ISTD brief. It was really hard to get down enough information about a person in just three minutes, whilst having to observe the person and write at the same time. Due to the places I was doing the people watching, a dictaphone wasn't an option. Still, I managed to get lots of information down, and at first glance, I really can't see how I am going to use it? Or whether it will be an interesting and effective piece of design? I have left it for now, and will revisit my notes tomorrow to see whether anything jumps out at me. I started to think about changing my idea ... again! But I think that I should continue with this if I can otherwise I am going to make more work for myself and my course projects will suffer (online portfolio)!
INK BAR
The Ink Bar is up and running and every time I have past it, it seems to be busy ... great stuff! We met up with Chloe before Christmas to get some printed media for our portfolios - we are going to see if we can get hold of some menus etc as well. They gave us a £20 voucher each for The Print Rooms which we spent before we broke up for Christmas holidays.
The website is up and running, please click here to view it. As we did the logo and the identity (ink in water), due to time constraints the website was built by their web design company - although it is a shame to see they have squished the logo up on the home page.
So, there is my update so far. I am working on my online portfolio still and will update again soon!
I have just got computer and internet access back so am going to write a long overdue update on things since the end of term.
ONLINE PORTFOLIO:
This project has been such a big challenge for me. The main problem I have had is how to brand myself. I didn't want to use my name, mainly because I don't like how it sounds. I thought about using Victoria Martin on its own, but I never call myself that so it seemed silly to. After much thought and deliberation I came up with Berri Design. My thought process behind this started with fruit as a name, and then ended up as Berry being a nice word on its own but then from a design point of view, I much preferred how 'Berri' looked as opposed to 'Berry' when placed next to the word 'design'. This wasn't a factor in my thought process at all, but 'Berry' is the name of my friends daughter, so it also has meaning to me.
berri design - i think it looks nice and sounds nice
We had a crit at the end of term with Neil. I had some example layouts of how I wanted my website to look and be navigated. Neil suggested that a white background might be a bit boring and that maybe I could look at textures, such as hand made paper. I think this is a nice idea, but after further consideration, I really like white backgrounds on website, they don't take away from the images. I also think that it is more suited to an illustrators website maybe? I will look into it and see what I can find, but I really am keen on a plain white background - it fits with me as a designer and my style. I am also a bit of a control freak and a textured background would probably make me anxious, I like structure and organisation, so I feel that I need a site that shows this.
After further thinking, I have gone back to the idea of branding myself as 'victoria martin'. My website will be a certain colour scheme and layout and these have been chosen on the type of designer I am and the things I like, the name isn't going to have an effect on they way my site looks etc. So, I think it can be easily changed if need be.
ISTD
I went into Bournemouth to do my people watching for the ISTD brief. It was really hard to get down enough information about a person in just three minutes, whilst having to observe the person and write at the same time. Due to the places I was doing the people watching, a dictaphone wasn't an option. Still, I managed to get lots of information down, and at first glance, I really can't see how I am going to use it? Or whether it will be an interesting and effective piece of design? I have left it for now, and will revisit my notes tomorrow to see whether anything jumps out at me. I started to think about changing my idea ... again! But I think that I should continue with this if I can otherwise I am going to make more work for myself and my course projects will suffer (online portfolio)!
INK BAR
The Ink Bar is up and running and every time I have past it, it seems to be busy ... great stuff! We met up with Chloe before Christmas to get some printed media for our portfolios - we are going to see if we can get hold of some menus etc as well. They gave us a £20 voucher each for The Print Rooms which we spent before we broke up for Christmas holidays.
The website is up and running, please click here to view it. As we did the logo and the identity (ink in water), due to time constraints the website was built by their web design company - although it is a shame to see they have squished the logo up on the home page.
So, there is my update so far. I am working on my online portfolio still and will update again soon!
Yulia Brodskaya - Graphic Design and Illustration
MONDAY 8TH DECEMBER 2008
Yulia Brodskaya has done some of the illustrations for todays Guardian G2 paper.
Here are a couple of examples:
Here are a couple of examples from her website as well:
As well as finding her work interesting, her website is really nice. The layout and the flow of it works really well so I have included it in my research for our Screen Based Project.
Yulia Brodskaya has done some of the illustrations for todays Guardian G2 paper.
Here are a couple of examples:
Here are a couple of examples from her website as well:
As well as finding her work interesting, her website is really nice. The layout and the flow of it works really well so I have included it in my research for our Screen Based Project.
Screen Based Communication Part Deux - Online Portfolio
THURSDAY 27TH NOVEMBER 2008
We were given our new brief today for Screen Based Communication 2! I am really excited by the project, if not a little worried! I think that once I get into it I will be fine - but we are back to a blank canvas again and this is always quite daunting ... but as always ... plenty of research and ideas generation techniques usually gets me through and heading towards an idea!
There are so many things I need to consider for this brief including:
- What am I going to call myself?! I am definately not calling myself Vicky Martin, or Vicky Martin Design or basically anything with my name in it as I don't like how it sounds, or looks on the page! I was born Victoria Martin - but I don't like that either, I never call myself that, so it doesn't seem right to use it as an identity. So this leaves me with coming up with a name and forming a company identity that I can register. I have been thinking about this so much lately, but just can't seem to come up with anything that I really like! I am hoping something will come up soon though!
- I also need to think about the sort of designer I am - this is a difficult thing for me to do as I have always felt quite lost as to where my niche is. I feel I have strengths in type setting, layouts, design for print - I need to show the type of designer I am through my website. There are so many things I like and am interested in, but this website is about me and what I do and what my strengths are!
So, on with the research and ideas generation!
I am planning on spending Friday on this project. I can then come in on Monday and Tuesday and spend those days working on the ISTD brief ready for when Mike Ryan comes in on Friday.
We were given our new brief today for Screen Based Communication 2! I am really excited by the project, if not a little worried! I think that once I get into it I will be fine - but we are back to a blank canvas again and this is always quite daunting ... but as always ... plenty of research and ideas generation techniques usually gets me through and heading towards an idea!
There are so many things I need to consider for this brief including:
- What am I going to call myself?! I am definately not calling myself Vicky Martin, or Vicky Martin Design or basically anything with my name in it as I don't like how it sounds, or looks on the page! I was born Victoria Martin - but I don't like that either, I never call myself that, so it doesn't seem right to use it as an identity. So this leaves me with coming up with a name and forming a company identity that I can register. I have been thinking about this so much lately, but just can't seem to come up with anything that I really like! I am hoping something will come up soon though!
- I also need to think about the sort of designer I am - this is a difficult thing for me to do as I have always felt quite lost as to where my niche is. I feel I have strengths in type setting, layouts, design for print - I need to show the type of designer I am through my website. There are so many things I like and am interested in, but this website is about me and what I do and what my strengths are!
So, on with the research and ideas generation!
I am planning on spending Friday on this project. I can then come in on Monday and Tuesday and spend those days working on the ISTD brief ready for when Mike Ryan comes in on Friday.
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