Yeh Duh.

So I was trying to figure out how to organize my images so I could upload them to Photobucket for placing them on my blog. I couldn't decide whether to link to them or slide-show them or just throw them out into the snow and let them fend for themselves.

I then realized. Hey, I have webspace - I can host my own stuff. Why am I using Photobucket?

Thankfully, the internet has the perfect meme for such a moment.

Nissan Superfun Flash Site

For our flash class we had to take code we'd learned and apply it to the creation of a Nissan-themed mini-site. We had to take code involving children and stages and apply it to the time-line version of the site that had been completed way back in week 6. My parents follow my blog. I just officially lost them. I may have lost myself. But the point is:

FLASH.

It's pretty. AND FLASHY. Click the image. :p

Ultimately, I understand how to apply what we learned to the creation of another site - which I suspect was the point.

When Androids Attack!**

**There are no actual attacking androids. yet.

These are the finished design for the Android app, there are only two shots of the app itself (one landscape and one portrait) but my hope is that (with the possible aid of the site map) how it's intended to work is clear.

Cr(eight)iv

Group projects. You win some, you lose some.

Throughout the term we had group project to redesign and apply basic code to a website called Cr(eight)iv - the actual name using the numeral 8, not (eight), but it was requested by the client that we not use their actual name so as to not divert search engine attention from them.

The first part of the assignment as to develop three potential designs for the site.
The three designs I came up with were:

I used the third design, admittedly because it was the easiest to slice for coding. I really wasn't sure if I could successfully code something more complicated - though now I am confident that I can. The coded bit can be found here. It's honestly really basic stuff - but it works and I'm proud of myself for getting it done.

This project involved a lot of frustration. There were basically 'group issues' plaguing the entire class - likely stemming from the fact that this was one of the first group situations where we didn't have control over who was in our group. Thankfully it's done now, and the Eros project renewed my faith in group-work. :D

Eros Tea and Coffee Garden

We had a group project to create a website mock-up and the branding for an imaginary Tea-house called Eros. As a client they wanted a site that focused on their booming teas and had a Telus or Apple type feel to it.

My initial idea for the design was along the lines of this:

The problem was that, although the picture in the background was nice, the site was becoming far too busy and cluttered when the client was looking for clean and simple.

Not to be discouraged, I took the design concept that my super awesome partner, Enoch, had been working with and started modifying that.

This was my final design for the site. I like it because it represents what a group collaboration should be - by working together we came up with a design that neither of us would have reached as quickly on our own and neither of us felt hindered by the other during the process. It's nice to have someone next to you while working that has the honesty and interest to look at the hideous green line your about to apply to an object and say "... you do know how tacky that looks, right?".

Client Mock-Up Mini

We had an assignment to take the two clients whose sites we'd redesigned and make mock-ups of apps or mobile sites for them based on those designs.

I chose to make apps for both companies for the assignment and intend to create ideas for their mobile sites over the break.

For Dystar the app is supposed to be something that would be aimed at chemists or dyers. The idea is that it would take the brochures produced by their subsidiary Color Solutions International make make it a digital app that would provide and/or analyze color swatch information.





For NCC the app is a fairly typical radio station app, the difference being that it would focus specifically on stations owned by or associated with them.

A sketchy situation?

Oh puns, how much better the world would be without you...

For most of the semester, we started off our pre-production class with warm-up sketching. We had to submit our ten favourite sketches for marking.

I've never taken any classic art courses, so anything involving theory like perspective, or bone/muscle structure was exciting for me. Drawing stickfigues that could potentially be the foundation for a person instead of my usually foundation for a treant (spell check doesn't recognize treant or ent? For shame.) was also thrilling.

My favourite sketches are those that look passably male. Where to even begin drawing men generally confuses me. The hips that aren't hips, the lack of curves but still needing to have shape. Even when drawing while young I'd reach a point of frustration and just make it female.

When in doubt, throw boobs on it.

So, yes, drawing an almost male thing is a triumphant moment.