1. Peter Urban Graphic Designer
2. Erik Marinovich Graphic Designer
3. Franklin Gaw Industrial Design
4. Yuna Kim Graphic Designer
5. Jessica Hische Graphic Designer
6. Lotta Nieminen Graphic Designer
7. Sam King Graphic Designer and Photographer
8. Michael Sevilla Graphic Designer
9. Foundry Collective Branding & Digital Agency
10. Claire Hartley Graphic Designer
After many hours spent perfecting my code, my portfolio site is finally finished and working properly, and I am so happy with the end result! I had a lot of trouble trying to get my overlapping elements to float correctly, and I also included a few pops of color to each page which I think is a better portrayal of my personality, especially the pink! Here is the finished product:
http://gozips.uakron.edu/~lam127/
This past Saturday, April 21st, the Student Art League sponsored a trip to Pittsburg during which we visited the Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History. I found the museums to be extremely interesting and educational, with their vast range of items from modern art to dinosaur displays. Among the various exhibitions, one I particularly enjoyed was Maya Lin’s architectural display in which she abstractly recreated natural forms in order to express her own personal experience with nature, as well as to encourage viewers to reflect on their surroundings. Also on display in the museum was the exhibition Past Meets Present: Decorative Arts and Design, which featured a large installation of chairs as a unique way to show visitors how design has evolved into the early 21st century.
Last Wednesday, I attended a lecture given by the New Yorker’s art editor for the past 19 years, Francoise Mouly. I found this lecture to be both extremely entertaining as well as educational, as she took us from her beginning in the publishing world, through the many famous covers of the magazine as well as the artists who created them, and finally to how things are going currently. Mouly began in New York City with a magazine called Raw Graphix Magazine, which she showed several covers as well as their innovate construction. I think it was very interesting to see how she took her experience and approach to magazine publishing from working at Raw, to her new position as editor. Francoise said that she found it refreshing that when putting together covers for the magazine, she didn’t have to worry about the covering them with obnoxious text to catch attention of buyers, due to the fact that many readers are subscribed, the magazine sells itself. She began her time at the New Yorker by referencing earlier covers from the 1930’s and 1940’s in order to get a full feel for what the magazine was originally trying to accomplish and how she could expand on that idea in today’s context. She would also bring cover artists to view these examples as well, telling them to keep these directions in mind when developing concepts and sketching. One statement I found very intriguing was her view that the magazine does not tell viewers what to think, but rather tells you to think, something that I personally believe many other publications lack. As for the relevance of this lecture to web design and the development of the web over all in the past few years, Francoise stated the web is convenient in the speed of communication it allows as well as the broader range of artists it opens the magazine up to. In regards to people’s need to comment on everything they see online, often negatively, the editor said she doesn’t read too much into feedback from readers, for she doesn’t want to be bullied into making decisions about the New Yorker.
When visting the collider 4 show in our gallery, one piece which really drew my attention was the Versus (vs.) Series, VS:: 0.01(eight ball). This pool table sonically interprets movement of the billiard balls while two players are facing off. I found it very interesting that the music slows as the pace of the balls rolling across the table decreases as well as how the pitch differs depending on the location. For example, when rolling from the left end the pitch decreases, and rolling from the right it increases. I think the addition of these sounds makes the players more attentive to the action occurring on the table. When reading the information about this particular installation, I noticed the description said this is the first in a series of projects dealing with sonically interpreted sports events, so I’m very interested to see what the other installations will be.
Personal Site:
1. Only apply a float after header/navigation, as long as height is determined there shouldn’t be a problem.
2.If you need assistance with new tabs introduced, CSS 3, W3schools and Google are all great resources, can search for CSS rounded corners.
3.Creating opacity, in style tab (goes from 0-1, so 0.4 is about 40%) type in Opacity:0.4; Filter: alpha (opacity-40); /* for IE8 and earlier*/
4. The p tab we have been running is generic, therefore if you need it to be more controlled, in style tab would type .content_column_c p{} put font information in the brackets.
5. Different opacity approach-take out opacity and filter lines, make new image that is 1 pixel by 1 pixel and fill with black. Then bring opacity to 40 and save this as PNG-24 with transparency on. Then in html, background-image: (Select image just created, this essentially preserves color of text and runs opacity in background as a single image.)
6.Rounded corners- in style type moz-border-radius:30px; border-radius:30px;
7.Lightbox demo-Lightbox matrix link is on the Web 1 site, lists clones of lightbox, fancybox is what is used in our class. When putting an animation on an image, the a href goes to a large image and the a id goes to a thumbnail, keep the large image around 900 to 80 pixels. If the image is in a list the code should look like: <li><a id=”example 3″ href=”images/zoom/dust.jpg”><img src=”images/asb.png” alt=”ASB”/></a></li>
8.Making clicking on the email link of site open mail with your address listed: Email: <script>noHarvest( );</script> <script language=”Javascript” type=”text/javascript”> goes above and close with </script> below. <script language=”Javascript” type=”text/javascript”> var name=’lam127′; var server=’zips.uakron’; var suffix=’.edu’; function noHarvest( ) {document.write(‘<a href=”‘ + ‘mailto:’ + name + ‘@’ + sever + suffix + ‘”>’ + name + ‘@’ + server + suffix ‘</a>); } </script>
In class we have been working on perfecting our portfolio sites before the end of the semester, and mine has been coming along pretty smoothly. Work still needs to be done on the navigation site to ensure it looks the way I would like, as well as making sure nothing shifts when visiting each individual page. I also need to include descriptions of each of the examples of work I have displayed on the site, a very crucial aspect to be added. Overall I’m happy with the design, it is very simple and the black and white suits my own personal taste, as well as the addition of the rollover color images on my work page.
With my junior year in school fast approaching, I figured it was time to build a resume to start applying for internships and graphic design jobs in the area. I haven’t had any formal direction on how to make one, however the web is always helpful when I don’t know where to begin with something! I found this really helpful graphic design blog discussing what you should and shouldn’t put in a resume, particularly pertaining to graphic designers. So to all you fellow undergraduates in the dark on this process, hopefully this will shed some light as it did for me..
http://www.youthedesigner.com/2008/04/29/the-graphic-design-resume-guide/
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