charlesdownman.co.uk

This is a side project I have been working on for my friend and fine artist Charles Downman. He wanted a portfolio website that was fit to show to future employers. We spoke through about what sort of stuff he wanted on there, and the style of the site. I like the outcome of the site, although I would have changed some design aspects.

some good info-graphic animations...

I think these animations could come in useful when brainstorming ideas for our info graphic animation. Each one has a particular style, and they all follow statistical information.

Rubber Republic

Rubber Republic is a blog which is updated regularly showing some of the most up to date viral videos. It has given me some ideas for case study's to work with on my dissertation, and I'm sure it will inspire and influence future projects I do.

This is Dare.

Redweb lecture

We had the head of design and head of innovation come in to talk to us about the work life at Redweb design studios. Redweb are a leading company in the web design industry behind some of the biggest web innovations today. Damian Proctor and David Burton are two of the guys behind the Meetdraw night as well.

They put on a very interesting presentation which highlighted how the different parts of their company functioned, in particular concentrating on the creative team. I was surprised at how many different people there were running a job from start to finish, to produce a number of different websites. Theses included the:

- User Experience
- Content designer
- Web editor
- Visual designer
- Accessibility designer
- Front end development
- Senior designer
- Video designer
- Head of design
- Innovation design

I was blown away by the number of people who were involved with the whole project. But gave me a great insight into where I want to be in the next few years maybe? Each bullet was explained as to what each of their jobs were, and it was really interesting to find out about. A few areas within this team stood out in particular to me, mainly the video designer, who was in charge of creating the motion graphics which is my main area of interest at the moment.

My next step from this talk has motivated me to go and email the company to see what they think of my work. I will ask if I could get in touch with their video designer to see if I can find out about more of the work he does.

D-list website.

I found this d-list website when I was doing some research for design buddies. It has loads of clean web and graphic designs. I think this blog would be useful when doing research for creating websites. There are some interesting flash websites on here to, which is one of the areas I am considering for my SMP (specialist major project)

the significance of numbers critique

This is the piece I handed in for my crit yesterday. I picked the quote because I think it defined the significance of numbers. I wanted to keep it as simple as possible because I didn't believe it needed much to make it work as a final piece. I used black and white cause it was to reflect that of a blackboard, the lines through the text were to represent an abacus, n the quotation marks were to represent the beads.

I got a negative response from the group because they said that having lines through the text was a negative connotation. They said if I maybe put the words on top of the line it wouldn't look so negative. The group also said if I wrote the quote on a genuine blackboard then it would be more authentic.