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April 27, 2005
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For Wednesday 4.13
April 11, 2005
Have 5 rough designs ready to look at and discuss. These should be sketches, imagery (scanned, photography, found) or both. Just be ready to show 5 different directions you are considering for the design of this first page.
Things to consider:
What will be actual imagery and what will be selectable (HTML text). The visual presentation should complement the text, concept, and theme. The graphics should be secondary to your text/content. So avoid designs that may use 1 large graphic. Web design is not print... people aren't going to be flipping pages in a magazine; they are going to be interacting with your text. Clicking one large image that takes the user to another large image is the same concept as turning pages in a magazine. You'll need to integrate graphics with your text; the more subtle you can do this the better. Think of the graphics as supplemental accent to your text.
Posted by Ryan Oswald at 10:19 PM | Comments (0)
Just a note...
April 06, 2005
post your examples here
on this current project: you should really focus on the non-linear nature of hypertext and hypermedia. Your projects should really take advantage of this new media by creating an experience that is not sequential and orderly; that's what old media is for. Play around with your text-reconfigure it, move it around, take it out of context, make it unique! Draw connections between your literature and, art, music, science, culture-everything is inner-connected. To make these connections, your going to need to seek-out these associations; so follow your concepts and see where your research leads you. If successful, this project will have a stream-of-consciousness sensibility that paralles the way we think and remember. So see how far you can push it!
So consider these concepts as you are researching, gathering content, and laying out your rough interaction maps. We'll discuss these ideas on Monday along with writings from Ted Nelson's book Computer Lib/Dream Machines in which he coines the term hypertext and hypermedia.
Also, I will email everyone soon with a login name and password (as well as instructions) for our website so you will all be able to post your own entries to the site.
Posted by Ryan Oswald at 12:37 PM | Comments (0)
Interactive Narrative Project
March 30, 2005
The Interactive Narrative Project outline has been added to the site under the "Projects" menu (this is the same information as the hand-out you were given in class).
Any questions, concerns, or assignments related to the Interactive Narrative project should be posted in the "comments" of this entry.
Any updates to this project will be reflected in this same entry also, and this entry is filed under the Category: "projects".
Posted by Ryan Oswald at 04:48 PM | Comments (15)
Project 1: What is graphic design?
March 16, 2005
The outline for this project has been added to the site as well as the documents you will need:
Project 1
You will all need to have these pages ready by Monday. Bring the finished pages with you on a cd or some sort of storage device.
After our quiz on Monday, we will take a look at your projects and use the rest of the time as a workday-linking your pages together and addressing any other difficulties you may have run into. Until then, use the resources available to you: all those listed on the course site, any handouts, the dreamweaver book, dreamweaver help file, ect...
If you have any questions, please email me or leave a comment here
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