Author: KC

  • Today I presented this in class. After reading the first chapter of “Hey Whipple, Squeeze This” I realize that I shouldn’t have approached this menu design in the way that I did. This is my first group of things that I have designed in InDesign. One of the first quotes I came across in the…

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bfj3fQ_PE1o For more information about this project, check out last week’s post. Marc (during Friday’s critique) asked my team how we ended up with this idea of cities and IT for this New Media video. I said “visual analogies” because it’s what gave Chris an eyebrow raise and he said that’s interesting during our concept…

  • 1)Scale and Position 2) Think about the Negative Space 3) Oh, god. I hate this font. Never use this again. 4) Never stack type like this. 5) What are you trying to say with this? 6) This needs more work. 7) Remember Scale and Position 8)Weren’t you listening? I said not to use that font……

  • Post-critique: Calendars in people’s presentations made Tim comment. Each calendar (online and off) requires a certain kind of engagement from the user. Will they mark x for days passed? It doesn’t stop at the calendar phase, the user finds a date he likes, perhaps an event he plans on attending and then acquires more information.…

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bfj3fQ_PE1o Project overview: produce video about 90 seconds long, in teams of three, PSA for an assigned Seattle Central Community College department, the video to be screened at a fundraiser, projected on a wall,  other music will be playing. (read: convey story without audio!) , 1 day to concept, 1 week to storyboard,  1 week…

  • Post Critique: Tom said that my label had too many saturated colors and the font left something to be desired. Set the scene, he said. Tell a story. So, after some edits and the use of a varying size san serif font, I will submit a different version. Update: 4-23 New Version. Simplified and colored…

  • Capilano Suspension Bridge is one of Vancouver’s top attractions. I went a few weekends ago and took a photograph of a lovely waterfall. Here’s my painting version of it. I feel like I am going to go back and add more detail, but I like the spontaneous strokes.

  • My New Media team of three (including me) worked on our storyboards for the video about Information Technology. (See last week’s post for details.) Today would be the second time I almost cried from a critique. The first time Jill looked at some underdeveloped thumbnails and called them useless and said that if I wanted…