Fattooma’s Weblog

Well it has beeen a long time since i had blogged anything and from now on i will start blogging so hope I don;t bore you

So first of all I keep you updated on what going on in our group project module. Well Ross, Chris and I are in a group and we decided to do our project on an interactive promo website for the college. Last semester we did all the research and this semester we are building the website, shooting video and capturing images around the campus, so don’t worry if you see us around

This week after borrowing the HD Canons from Daniel, we started straight away interviewing some students from around the campus. We also went around taking images of the campus to build our interface for the website.  At the start I thought building the interface in photoshop should be no problem but soon found out that its much more of a hassle then I expected. Anyways at the moment I am trying to solve it, its just the propositions are not quite working for me, wish me luck

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Today in the lecture we looked at Interactive/Web design basis then in he lab we messed around with photoshop, and we  were given an assignment to do, which was to evaluate a website of our choice under 5 heading of our choice from the principles of the interactive/web design basis. i chose to evalute google under the following headings:

• Simplicity 
• Typography
• White Space
• Layout 
• colour

Simplicity:

 I would see the google website as one of the most easiest and simpliest website to use.  Its deign is simple which makes it stand out from other websites. It as a simple recognisable layout that distinguishs it from other websites. The message of this website is  simple because of its search toolbar that is placed in the center of the page. It provides simple, clear steps and few instructions . it has a recognisable visual design with helps viewers.

Typoraphy:

 Googles typography is good, as it doesn’t use to many typefaces. The only lare size font on its its page is it logo sign and that is very effective because it makes it stand out. Google uses sans-serif which makes the page look cleaner on the screen.  The colour, size and shape all contrast toghether to give it an overall visual appeal to the viewers eye.

White Space:

 Google uses effective ehite space all over its website, this helps to improve legibility, an give a ood sense of simplicity and communcates a feeling of openess and style. White space on google is balanced, its also uses both micro and macro white spacing.

Layout:

 The layout of google is simple and easy to follow which creates a sense of order in the site. It is well formed and organised. Because google uses the  most simplicist layout on its website it makes it more appealing to visters of it site, and therefore it communicates its infrmation more clearly.

Colour:

Google uses  very simple colours on its site, but at the same time uses the design theory very effectivly. This makes its site more appealling. 

This week in the lab we were given an Assignment to do which is worth 10% of our over all mark. We had to use photoshop and edit any image we wanted and make them good or evil.

In the lecture we had a look at the definition of semiotics which is, the study of signs

• Signs
• Dyadic Model
• Tryadic Model
• Adveryising
• Positive and Negative

This week in the lecture we had a look at gestalt princibles of perception

• similarity
• continuation
• closure
• proximity
• figure and ground

During the lab we used photoshop to edit a picture of louis walsh, making him good!

This week in visual language we weaved willow sculptures, with the expertise and help of horticulturist Breda Maroon. We were put into groups, each group had to form a figure out of the bamboo sticks, in total there were 7 figures.

This week we were introduced to the different types of multimedia softwares that are available. In the lab we were introduced to photoshop, we familerized ourselves on how to use it by experementing with a photo.

This week we went on a field trip to the Botanic Gardens. during our trip we had to demonstrate our understanding of the different types of drawing techniques, we had studied from the previouse weeks. for visual language we had to draw 5 different pictures which included:

• contour drawing
• blind contour drawing
• negative space
• patterns in nature
• texture thumbnail sketches

This week we learned about colour and texture. we looked at different types of colours ( primary, secondary, and tertiary), we also looked at colour components and colour spectrum. In the labs we used a stencil to create a series of design on a page. our page was divided into 4 sections, each section had to be painted in a different styles (monochrome, analogous, complementary and split-compemantary.)