sitemps: tips

Sitemaps are common deliverables, desired by clients who want a visual representation of a site. Article about sitemaps and ways to make them The Lazy IA's Guide to Making Sitemaps

i use illustrator to make my sitemaps but you may use what works for you. to help you make your site map real here is a program that could be useful, www.conceptdraw.com

studio tour and open house

October 1 {Blacktop Creative: studio tour and open house

info graphic posters

if the world were 100 people

love it.

...when you are finished

sometime next week. post your final videos on the AIGA youtube page

Last Check: check yourself

Please post your group feedback if you have not already done so. I will need it as part of the grading process. Also make sure you have all your process on the server (there is space). As a final check this weekend... ask yourself the following questions about your project...

Concept
Is there a clear visual pov that drives all design choices? Do you think you articulated it well? Think anybody will see/feel/get it?

Craft
Have you scrutinized every choice? Are all the parts reproduced the way you want them to be: image quality, resolution, color and alignments. Spell check?

Type
Are your choices driven by Expressiveness or Functionality? If it is supposed to be read can it be...is it on the screen long enough? Is the viewer sprinting, walking or daydreaming? Is it more appropriate for the type connote the "other" meaning through motion/movement or by the typeface choice or by both? Or is both too much?

Image
Is it interesting? Could it point to what it is representing rather than just show it? Does the image read what you want it to? Does it point somewhere else too..is it appropriate?

Time
Duration. Is it too long or too short? Could it be quicker to keep the ball rolling? Do you ever pause? Sequence. What is the story? Have you explored different "order of the shots"? Is it too predictable? or should it be? Am I on the edge of my seat? or should I be comfortable right before you punch me in the mouth?

Long hello and short goodbye or short hello and long goodbye. Where is the big "reveal"? Why?

Transition
Planned? Flow or make a statement? Float like a butterfly or sting like a bee?

Motion
What does it feel like? Mechanical or Organic? Sexy or Goofy? Should it play by the laws of physics? Do the different actors/parts behave differently? Do they have a personality? Tigger or Pooh?

Sound
Background music or "communication through the audio channel"? Too literal or Too obvious? Choreographed? Parallel or Counterpoint? Does the visual and the audio have a conversation, play together or should they argue and fight?

Communication
When the dust settles.....What does the audience remember? Were you successful?

Funny Video

good.is

good magazine has changed to good.is
there are several videos that are interesting but too awkward to place in the blog
transparency section: lord of the rings
and vampire energy by nigel homes et all

fun and funny

perspective : stoytelling : memory

Objectify Me

can designed by the master Paul Rand

Objectify Me is a weekly series of guest columns in which people we like discuss designed objects that inspire them.

Objectified: new documentary by Helvetica director Gary Hustwit coming this season to AIGA KC.
It’s a look at the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to tech gadgets. It’s about the people who re-examine, re-evaluate and re-invent our manufactured environment on a daily basis. It’s about personal expression, identity, consumerism, and sustainability. It’s about our relationship to mass-produced objects and, by extension, the people who design them.

Prototype + Hammerpress + Design Ranch

Just a reminder that ProtoType (AIGA student group) will have its first meeting monday at 6pm. If you want to be a member but can't make the meeting talk to me on Tuesday. ProtoType link

Also...

AIGA KC celebrates and embraces this thriving creative community by inviting diverse "homegrown" talent to share their hard-earned stories of success. This is an opportunity for other aspiring creatives and other professionals to meet and learn from these local creatives by asking the hard questions.

This is a new event format for AIGA KC check out and hear what they have to say. If you sign up now it is only $5 and $7 at the door. here is the link.

b e a u t i f u l :: exception

you have heard me... no type on a curve, no type in a shape, no manipulating type __ but there is always the exception. Chinese artist Tsang Kin-wah


















and another but not by the same person

why i skippled class

on thursday i was on my way to the Walter De Maria: Lightning Field. On a barren, isolated plain in west-central New Mexico, one of the most remarkable artistic creations of all time has quietly taken shape. Called the Lightning Field, it is a precise geometric collection of 400 gleaming metal poles rising from the earth over an area one mile long and one kilometer wide. more images

Artist Lecture: Laurie Anderson on HOMELAND

9.11 (end of Thursday's class)
you are excused from class if you would like to go to... Artist Lecture: Laurie Anderson on HOMELAND | bio |

Co-sponsored with the Lied Center of Kansas / Anderson, who will perform HOMELAND at the Lied Center on Friday, Sept. 12, will speak about her reasons behind the work, which is a response to her own thoughts and reactions to how the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks affected New York City and the United States at large. HOMELAND uses the synthetic language of technology and the sensuous language of songwriting and poetry to capture Anderson’s compound reply. SMA Auditorium / 4:30 PM

Change in Homework for Thursday

no animatic for Thursday's class. We need to step back and get the imagery/graphics, type, color palettes set. And you need to finalize your concept and what you want people to "take away" after they see your motion graphic. what do you want them to remember? do? how do you want them to feel? ie: empowered. what is your information/stat... how will you show it in a graphic, dynamic manor?

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1. refine your storyboards, make the "frames" in the proportion of 640x480 pixels (points) not inches. refine images, type, color, information, and ADD at the bottom of the frame how you want the transitions to work.

2. Project Brief/Process Book a doc (indesign or illustrator) that follows this (will be handed in as a pdf at the end of the project)
-- cover
-- title page: your name, project name, semester
-- project description
-- your fact/stat/piece of information
-- associated word list
-- key words (defined)
-- define: emotional qualities on the content and the context of a message. For example, if the content of a message is optimistic, the motion’s emotion must convey a behavior that people can identity as being positive. Yet, the behavior would ‘remind us’ rather than ‘tell us’ in a literal sense.
-- define: personality: attributes such as color (literal and figurative), size, type of imagery and typeface…
-- define: rhythm: where should you pause for dramatic effect, which words do you stress, what voice quality do you use, etc.
-- to suggest list (design objectives)
-- to suggest (mood/feelings, actions, reactions...)
-- color palette
-- image palette: images/graphics that you are going to use
-- moodboard (as it was today)
-- storyboard 1
-- storyboard 2
-- refined storyboard

inclass
show your refined storyboard to at least 3 fellow classmates (capture feedback) and after effects demo

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DUE next Tuesday
-- Questions and Answers: Visit your classmates blogs and answer 3 questions about the reading. (try and be insightful if someone has answered the question before you, you need to add something more to the answer or move onto another question by another classmate. If there are already 3 responses to a question you must move onto another question. In the end all questions should have 3 comments.

-- Blog: Who are: Richard Saul Wurman, Nigel Holmes, Edward Tufte post an entry on any research, compare and contrast the 3, post links to more information and post at least 1 example from each of the information designers. (use your own words)

-- Blog: please add a design objectives in the form of a To Suggest List.

-- Animated Storyboard first round of putting your storyboard into AfterEffects. Get sound in even if it is placeholder.

Inclass on Tuesday we will be working in class so bring your files and i will come around talk to you one on one...

we can solve it

No single person will stop global warming, but by working together, we can make it a priority for government and business. We'll succeed because when people unite and call for action, change is inevitable. Together we can solve the climate crisis.
http://www.wecansolveit.org/

I O U S A

I finally remembered to look up the movie I have been talking about in class...I.O.U.S.A. boldly examines the rapidly growing national debt and its consequences for the United States and its citizens. Burdened with an ever-expanding government and military, increased international competition, overextended entitlement programs, and debts to foreign countries that are becoming impossible to honor, America must mend its spendthrift ways or face an economic disaster of epic proportions. Throughout history, the American government has found it nearly impossible to spend only what has been raised through taxes.
| trailer | website |

By Richard Saul Wurman

Anie posted this to her blog by Richard Saul Wurman and it is well done so here it is... http://192021.org