Oh, also...

I should include some updated final screencaps from these as well:



The link to the aforementioned appears in the previous post.

The promised links

The rest of the links as promised. Luckily I am constantly looking at sites and so I have a large stash of links at my disposal that I frequently go to for inspiration and just to browse through. I'll share these for the time being and post more later as I run across them.

Note: I already posted three of these links last week. For example, you already know about Sennep, and if you are looking for a few more links look at my earlier posts.

1. http://temp.roxik.com/index.html - Roxik is a really awesome interactive firm based in Japan I believe.
2. http://www.ferro-concrete.com/work.php?project=pb&content=building&sub=pinkberry/building/environments - Ferro Concrete - they designed the website for Pinkberry!
3. http://kilostudio.net/ - Kilko Studio has some cute designs.
4. http://www.formcollective.com/index.php - Form Collective also has great web work.
5. http://www.airtightinteractive.com/news/ - Airtight news is a blog about flash and things like Papervision 3D.
6. http://www.poccuo.com/index.php - I love Poccuo's work. Their stuff is really clean and I try to keep my work similar.
7. http://sectionseven.com/ - This site RULES and was part of the inspiration for the original porfolio design site I was planning to do (see previous posts)
8. http://www.72andsunny.com/#/work/bugaboo/daytrips/website/ - 72 and Sunny - I love love their web design (their website really).
9. http://www.whitevoid.com/ White Void does a lot of cool stuff with PaperVision
10. http://www.underlinestudio.com/main.html - I always felt this site had a cool layout.
    

Some things for the final project..

Some process screencaps and sketches from working on the site. And below some links to inspirational sites that may or may not have helped inspire the idea for this one (although the idea really came from our discussion of Barbara Krueger).



The following are some of my sketches for this project that you can take a look at:


That's really all I have in terms of sketches. I sketched out the general ideas and layout.
The works included for this portfolio total 12 pieces, the following:

PRINT DESIGN:

• Scientific Arts Foundation identity (stationary, logo, etc)
• Visual Communications Recruitment poster
• Looking at Lincoln poster
• Earth Week (million acts of green) poster
• Art Deco Magazine spread

INTERACTIVE DESIGN:

• KTRM 88.7 the Edge official website
• Beta Omega Beta official website
• AIGA Truman chapter flash mini-site
  
• 1918 Vintage website redesign

PACKAGING DESIGN:

• Belbury Poly CD case/artwork redesign
• Motley: A Visual Communications II portfolio CD
• Candid! wine bottle & packaging design

I have had some difficulties this week getting my menu to work in ActionScript 3.0, so I don't know if I will be able to fix that without taking a bit more time, and I simply have not had that time this week. But regardless, here is the link to the site:

http://lib-laine.com/

And the AIGA stuff needs to be moved over to the school server space. Any thoughts on how that should be done yet? I might bop over to ITS tomorrow to see if they have any thoughts.

http://lib-laine.com/aigablog/

And speaking of links, a few for the road that was supposed to be posted earlier (merp):

1. http://www.coadesign.org/products.php - COA is not actually web design, but they do have a nice site. It's mostly print. Still inspiring.
2. http://www.barcinski-jeanjean.com/ - These guys are badass (pardon my French)...actually I think they are French.
3. http://www.subplot.com/subplot/index.php - Subplot's work is reminiscent of Jessica Endaya's work. Colorful and uses text awesomely...(word? no?)
   
4. http://urbankinetics.blogspot.com/2007_05_01_archive.html - Urban Kinetics is not strictly graphic design but is still good design work in general to look at for inspiration.
5. http://www.tastysuite.com/ - This site has a lot of cool furnishing design..again not graphic or web design, but still very neat for designers of all types to check out
6. http://www.bobdinetzdesign.com/tags/editorial - Some great editorial design from Bob Dinetz
7. http://www.thinkstudionyc.com/ - Think Studio, love it.

That's all for now.

Good thing I had a back-up plan

Alright so, this website design I'm working on isn't going to work...

I'm having too much trouble with the rotating preloader, so I'm just going to focus on the backup
design that I had started working on. This premise for this one is that the website is like a virtual gallery in which my portfolio is displayed. Perhaps cliche, but it gets the job done.

I got the idea from the group discussion session we had in History of Design actually, where we talked about Barbara Krueger's work and the re-contextualization of graphic design that is displayed in galleries. I personally don't think that galleries are a native environment for graphic design, but there is still some interesting thoughts to be had on the subject. For portfolio site purposes, I think it works just fine and it's also appropriate in light of the upcoming VisComm BFA show.

Below are some links that inspired me with the design idea. Check these out.

http://www.courtearpdesigns.com/drawings.html

http://www.checklandkindleysides.com/

http://www.invitinghome.com/crown-moldings-art-deco/molding_inst/baseboard_molding_21inb.jpg

And some process screencaps to come..

Summer, please.

So on my grade report, Gary commented that I need to work on showing more process and time management (ain't that the truth?). I have already admitted to being pretty off the ball this semester, but you win some and you lose some. And this has certainly been a 'lose some' semester. Hopefully, next semester will be better.

Anyway, to improve on my process habits, I'm going to try to be more gradual updates (instead of abruptly posting finished products sans process). I have a tendency never to save my work in stages, which is probably bad. I also work very slowly, which is almost certainly bad (found that out this weekend for sure...who knew I could spend two hours on a single page?)

So working more quickly = great idea that I'm sure will contribute to my being less stressed out. I will add, however, that I my projects for this semester have not been for naught. The design and technique I chose for this portfolio site looks to be giving me a run for my whatever...I have picked up more ActionScripting skills in the past three months than I have in the entirety of however long I have been tinkering around on the web.

As for the portfolio research, I'm constantly looking at other sites for inspiration, and I can't really pin-point the idea for this one to any particular source. I have noticed that I used to go into project by researching specifically for the project, which seems to be a good course of action. But more recently it's been more or less random and vague sources of inspiration. I don't sketch too often, and Gary is totally going to kick my @$$ for the fact that I have posted no process on a third project that I began working on this semester....>_>

I know that Gary wanted us to tailor the sites to the cities we will potentially want to be living in/applying for jobs in. I have no idea really where I am hoping to end up, but I am making sure that until I have more of an idea I will throw all of my options out there.

I overheard him mentioning something about making your website so that if you really like web, it will say good things about your web skills. I'm going to try to do something like this, but I will include screencaps and/or links to other web work still to round out the collection.

Really now I'm just rambling because I'm not certain what else to say. I don't have any other sketches, but I can come up with some. Back to work.

Progress, honey. Progress.

Alright a few screencaps to tide you over on the portfolio site. Teasers, if you will (you won't). See if you can spot the special "subliminal" message in the code...

Spin, load, spin. And that's all for now! What happens next is for a later post because it's time for dinner. (If you must know though, just refer back to the April 20th post. And if you do, note how the percent loaded when I took this screencap comes within 2% of the "percent loaded" I specified in my sketch. lol, skillz right?).

Ciao~ (chow)

Earth Week Poster Design

Hey, I kinda like the way this one turned out. I originally wanted to have the bike leaned up against or secured to a tree to promote the connection to the environment, but whatever....maybe I'll make a 2nd version.