Kismet Arts Tangent
Art Collective
Author: KC
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At the Drawing Club meeting this week, we started by drawing a still life of gourds. After getting warmed up, Jill showed up briefly and mentioned Exaggeration which led nicely into the talk that ensued about group drawing. There are many ways to collaborate, generate ideas and draw together. At the meeting, we did a…
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Katsite Project 1 I am continuing to make deviations from my wireframes as I respond to critiques of this website. Above is the latest version. It is 192.0 K. I cut down the file size by using Google Fonts instead of the Adobe Edge Fonts which run their javascript that takes up over 100 K.…
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Session 7, NamHo Park @namho Sunday at InfoCamp, Namho Park shared a beautiful presentation about communication technology. It’s a matter of scale. Firstly My Story I journal, I have a history and by telling some of those details to others I share my personal stories. In the olden days, my story wouldn’t have been told. At most,…
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This should have been part of phase 1 of the Ravenna Garden’s website design project. I think I’m having trouble (as a fledgling designer) coordinating my efforts. It’s coded fine, but I was too proud of my working slideshow to notice the ugly. Anyways, now’s my opportunity to go back and polish this website before…
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Session 6, Lorelei Kelly @ielarol Sunday at InfoCamp, Lorelei Kelly, an interactive designer led the discussion of the problems and solutions that comes with managing designers. Coordinating and Tracking Work– Use post-it notes, or a chart. Consider multiple purposes for these systems. Who are you trying to communicate with? Clients? Bosses? Team members? Consider weekly print…
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When I was somewhat inebriated I had this idea that it would be fun to make an animation using paintings I made. So, I spent the morning stitching them together to get that lame idea out of my system. I drew inspiration and information from this tutorial. I successfully masked something in my use of After Effects but when I…
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Talk by Jay Al Hashal @objectivejay Today, Jay Al Hashal talked to the class about the role of a UX designer. The Designer is a storyteller. These days stories are transmedial. We consume messages, each others stories from each other, in person, from our phones, the Internet, etc. So many different devices, but the Law of…
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Session 2, Aaron Louie @ajlouie Saturday at InfoCamp, Aaron Louie asked his audience what is “cool?” People ask designers all the time, “make it cooler?” Or in the case of Seattle Central’s Marc Salverda “make it sexy?” We usually think “aesthetically pleasing” or worse, “trendy.” Cool is something others can say about ourselves, but if…
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