Author: KC

  • Using my critiques as a checklist for next time: Consider content. What has it’s own formatting? (By that, I mean, are there documents in what you are designing that come a certain way, with the author signed at the bottom– that’s always flush right.) Consider non-content. Do not number pages with nothing on them. Decide…

  • Creative Brief For TeeShirt Design “Let’s see… 1)      We would like to do about 100 to 200 T-Shirts.    2)      The shirt will be used for our first event (A Cigarette Butts Clean-Up, where students and employees volunteer to pick up the cigarette butts on campus and then we count each butt to see how…

  • Today, I had my first CSS quiz. (What’s CSS?) I love the field I have chosen. I got to make this with some school chums instead of answer A, B, C or D. I enjoyed the thrill of working with people against the clock. We did well, checking our design in the browser throughout the…

  • Drawing Club activities: Today, after our Guest Speaker, we practiced Blind contour and negative space drawing. We had a guest speaker. Our very own Tom Lenon. Today’s topic: Thumbnailing. (A lot of this post is Tom’s instruction paraphrased… all the witticisms are his.) Tom lamented that thumbnailing is a technique being lost because of technology.…

  • Katsite Project 1 Today’s critique <nutshell> Built fine, bad design. </nutshell> Erik Fadiman said that it was boxy, the typography needs work, and use the empty space in the second column. I’m throwing away that style sheet and building a new one. One using something modified by Fadiman, roughly based on the grid at 1140px. And I’m…

  • Katsite Project 1 Today I’ve finished the first iteration of this website. I made a few adjustments from my wire frame. I extended the footer to span the width of the page to anchor the design. I made the js slideshow a photographic decoration of the second column instead of the entire second column to skim…

  • Today, Tom played the TED talk by Rory Sutherland, Life lessons from an ad man. In many of his other genius observations, he noted that Shreddies was able to change perception of their product through this humorous campaign. “The interface fundamentally determines the behavior.” -Rory Sutherland in·ter·face [n. in-ter-feys; v. in-ter-feys, in-ter-feys]  noun, verb, in·ter·faced, in·ter·fac·ing. 1. a surface regarded as the common boundary of two bodies,spaces, or phases. 2. the facts, problems, considerations, theories, practices,etc., shared by two or more disciplines, procedures, or fields of study: the interface between chemistry and physics. 3. a common boundary or interconnection between systems,equipment, concepts, or human beings. 4. communication or interaction: Interface between the parent company and its subsidiaries has never been better. 5. a thing or circumstance that enables separate and sometimes incompatible elements to coordinate effectively:The organization serves as an interface between the stategovernment and the public. Interface is…

  • An afternoon of painting with Mike O. He made a self portrait. I think he has a talent for rendering fabric. That’s not easy to do.