Emma Charnock

Images for Christmas Cooking

2011-12-08T09:23:00.000-08:00

After looking through all the recipies I decided that there was not much room on each page for pictures of christmas animations. I have come to the conclusion that I will decorate each page with a green or red bow - at the top and/or bottom. On the pages that have shorter recipies will include these small drawings I developed in Illustrator. The front page will have drawings similar to this also.

Christmas Booklets

2011-12-08T08:55:00.000-08:00

I have been asked to design some Christmas cookery booklets for a cooking school. The cookery booklets need to be for children aged 8-12

These are some christmas cookery books that i have researched for some ideas:

The booklet needs to be 12-16 pages double sided. The logo needs to feature but not dominate. This is a copy of the Logo:

Victoria Eaton Photography.

2011-09-05T06:37:00.000-07:00

Here is the link to the photography website that i have just created for a friend in her final year studying Fine Art.

http://victoria-eaton.com/

Website was developed using:

HTML, CSS, JQuery & Javascript

Strategy Coaching

2011-06-03T10:35:00.000-07:00

I am working on a website for a company called strategy coaching.

There will be a landing page where the user chooses between the companies on offer:

Real time leadership

Corporate athlete

Real time coaching

Student leadership

Performance management

There will be a navigation bar along every page for the user to get back to the landing page, contact or find out more at any stage of the website.

Artefact 6

2011-05-14T13:15:00.000-07:00

After answering my research question in artefact 4 and then backing it up with statistics in artefact 5, for artefact 6 i have decided to look into how the company can keep the user once they are 'though the door'.

In this artefact I have come up with a few interactive solutions to keep the company current. If the website that a car company is promoting is dated then people will see that as a reflection on how the car is built. This Artefact has helped to clarify the answer to my research question in preparation for the PRP presentation.

SPP Images

2011-05-11T06:30:00.000-07:00

I decided to change one of the 5 Images for the SPP module for the catalogue to one with a selection of my designs on. The reason for this was i thought the Homemade website was by far the weakest and thought it would be best to include an image that sums up my work as whole.

Artefact 5

2011-05-06T01:49:00.000-07:00

For artefact 5, I have decided to look at the sale angle of of my arguement. From artefact 4 i found the responses to the car interactive experience most interesting as surprisingly people said that they felt they would be more likely to go through with buying online after this particular experience than something like a fridge magnet or key ring. This is because people in my focus group said that they felt they wouldn't be bothered to go through the whole process of designing something online in such detail for just a key ring, If it was a car however they would be keen to show it off and personalise it so only they had the design.

For Artefact 5, I have conducted a skype interview with the senior account manager of Lexus. Lexus have just launched an online configurator which allows users to change the colour/interior etc of the car they are interested in buying. In my interview i wanted to find out in what sort of way lexus steer their customers into experiencing the configurator.

They do above the line advertising- they will include the url to the main lexus site on all tv and magazine adverts then once the user in on the website they signpost the user to the configurator hoping to drive users towards it.
When they launched the configurator they sent out emails directly to existing customers that linked directly to the configurator.

I also found from my interview that they have just launched an iPad app available to dealers in car garages. This iPad app works in the same way as the online configurator. The dealers get to choose when to show the ipad app to the customer in relation to the sale. The idea is for the customer to test drive the car and once they have made the decision to purchase it, the dealership can offer the customer choices of the car in all specifications.

SPP - Catalogue Images

2011-05-02T13:13:00.000-07:00

Artefact 4

2011-04-17T10:58:00.000-07:00

These are the 3 banners that i have put together for my 4th artefact. Followed by a labelled drawing of the expanded banner for users to experiment with the products.

Index Page

2011-04-15T04:16:00.001-07:00

Index page.

More Client Project..

2011-04-15T04:13:00.000-07:00

These are the Logo, Website design and Design for Print pages for the GS2 Website.

It has a moving flash banner at the with thumbnails of existing work by GS2.

Client Project Update

2011-04-11T02:54:00.000-07:00

These are a few more screenshots of my website for GS2. I have almost finished now i am just altering the navigation bars the fonts.

This screenshot one of the first portfolio pages that will lead to the gallery of Logo Design.

This screenshot is one of the extra pages for the user to view FAQ's and recruitment opportunities etc.

Artefact 4

2011-03-22T03:28:00.000-07:00

As in artefact 3 I have discovered that the user is quite willing to design the dresses and play around but when it comes to buying, all the girls I interviewed said that they would be quite edgy if they hadn't heard of the company giving their bank details over the internet.

For my next artefact I have decided to design a banner than shows 3 different things for the user to buy.

1.) A range of magnets, keyrings, etc for the user to design and create from scratch

2.) the dresses that i put together in artefact 3

3.) Features for cars. (interior and exterior)

My aim from this artefact is to see how open the user is to buying these things online after they have experienced the situation online. In artefact 1 I asked the users if they would buy most of these things online but i want to see if that is true when it is put into practise.

It will be pointed out to my focus group in this study that all three will be well known companies so that the internet safety does not alter the respondents answers.

Focus Group for Artefact 3

2011-03-17T05:42:00.000-07:00

I asked 6 girls what they thought of the interactive experience that i put together for artefact 3. All the girls were between the age 20-22 and keen shoppers.

I told the girls that the banner would be located at the top of a clothes website such as ASOS.

All the girls said that they would be very keen to play around experimenting with different colours, patterns, lengths and styles of the dress
The girls would know the dress would suit them
The girls were keen as they knew the dress would fit their body shape.
Noone else would have the same one so they wouldn't have to worry about other people showing up in the same outfit as them

All of them however mentioned that they would definatly not buy the dress is they had not heard of the brand.
One of the girls had previously purchased trainers from the NIKEiD website and said that there was TOO MUCH choice when designing her shoes, so that would have to be taken into consideration.
ONE girl said she would not be bothered about designing her own dress as she didn't feel she was artistic enough and would rather just see a dress in front of her.

Artefact 3

2011-03-11T03:51:00.000-08:00

For my third artefact i have designed an interactive experience. I decided to allow users to design their own dress completely to their own style. The user can choose from colour, thread, text, patterns, length and style.

When the user rolls over the banner with their mouse the extended window will scroll down. The user can then begin to play around with different designs to suit them.

Now that i have completed the game i intend to do a focus group interview to ask people what the think of the online experience and whether they would be inclined to purchase the product once they have designed the dress.

V & A Tile Designer

2011-03-09T04:51:00.000-08:00

The V&A Tile Designer application is the sort of game that i am planning on creating for my third prp artefact. I will use different choices, but i like the idea of the user having a blank canvas and being able to completely choose their own design. (Similarly to the NIKEID website). This is what I have discussed in my research document how, given the opportunity, would the user be more likely to buy something if they had the chance to bring their identity into the design of a product.

The user can pick and choose different colours shapes and sizes.

Once i have created the game i plan on doing a focus group so that i can ask users what their thoughts and opinions are on the idea.

http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1312_artsandcrafts/design_a_tile/

PRP Artefact 3

2011-03-05T10:16:00.000-08:00

My question for my PRP is

How do Interactive Online Experiences allow users to negotiate their identity in order to increase the likelihood of a sale?

So far I have conducted two questionnaires one on online advertising and the second asking users to compare website banners. Now that I have covered how to get the user to the website, I want to look at what convinces the user to purchase once they are there. On my third artefact i would also like the bring identity into the experiment.

For my third artefact I have began looking at the Cafe Press website. Here users can upload their own graphics, logos or text and add them to the product. Cafe Press offers the user the opportunity to order their own products online. The user also has the chance to make a virtual "shop"

From looking at the website I have decided to attempt to make a game on flash for the user to incorporate their identity into their own design. Here i want to see whether the user is more likely to buy something if it is made for them individually (one of a kind) with their own stamp on it.

http://www.cafepress.co.uk/

Meeting with my client

2011-03-03T08:57:00.000-08:00

After having a long meeting with my client about the GS2 website. we have gone through all the designs again for the portfolio pages and decided to make them much more simple. We were mainly talking about the portfolio page as it is the most important part of the site for potential customers to visit.

The portfolio can be accessed through clicking on one of the three boxes which feature on every page: Web design, Logo Design and Printed literature, it an also be accessed through the top navigation bar on the portfolio tab. If it is clicked on through the top navigation bar the user will be taken directly to the first portfolio page where they pick between the three topics of design.

This is the first portfolio page:

Once the user has chosen the area of design that they would like to look at they will be taken to a second portfolio page which will feature all the work and a selection of thumbnails that may entice the user to view other areas of design. The second portfolio page will consist mainly of imagery but my client wants to be able to write a small amount of text about the project next to the images.

The text that has been used in all the designs is not going to be used in the final design.

The thumbnails that have been introduced on both portfolio pages my client wants them to either be changing or to be slowly moving/fading.

Other alterations

There needs to be a contact button on EVERY page along with the contact tab on the navigation.
There will be a facebook link on the contact page

CV

2011-02-28T08:42:00.000-08:00

SPP ECOM

2011-02-27T09:56:00.000-08:00

For our SPP3 we had to find 3 jobs for once we have graduated and "apply" to one of them. One of the jobs that I chose was at the digital recruitment company ECOM. I thought the website was particularly impressive.

http://www.ecomrecruitment.com/

More Designing

2011-01-26T08:46:00.001-08:00

I have been working on the Portfolio pages but i am slightly stuck as now i am waiting for the images of work to include in the portfolio. I have however been experimenting on ways to display the work. The portfolio is going to work in two stages:

1. The user will click on the portfolio section and be lead to a page that will display one of the three main topics (logo design, website design and print and literature). This first page will display a little information on that topic. For example if it was the print and literature section it would explain what sort of work would come under this. Then the user has the option to pick sub categories from print and literature:

Magazines

Flyers/Leaflets

Stationery

Display

Packaging

This makes the website a lot easier for the user to navigate around. My client would like the portfolio set out this way because clients that come to look at the portfolio work can then quickly and efficiently find what they are looking for without having to browse through work that is not related to what they want. This would then take the user to another page which will display all the appropriate work designed by GS2.

Experimenting with the Navigation

2011-01-26T08:32:00.001-08:00

I have been experimenting with different navigation options in illustrator.

Client Project- Design and layout.

2011-01-26T07:40:00.000-08:00

I have now begun designing some ideas for my clients new website. In the proposal i have pointed out that they would like the website to be very simple and clean. As there will be so much content on the portfolio section my client has askedfor the other sections to be quite basic so the pages are not overcrowded.

An example of a website my client really likes is the Apple Mac website. He has asked for my design to have the same sort of layout with a navigation at the top, a bold banner in the middle and at the bottom of the page some more direct links to the portfolio section as it is the most important part of the whole website. He wants potential clients to be able to find the portfolio very easily and so would like more than one link to it! He has also mention that he would like a contact button on every page of the website so people dont have to look for it.

At the moment i am in the process of changing the different navigation boxes. I have tried to stick to the same colour scheme that GS2 already have on their current website as it is carried on throughout the design on business cards, letterheads etc. The orange is part of the companies identity so is important to my client that it stays throughout the design. whilst talking to my client we have divided the portfolio into three main sections; Logo design, printed literature and website design. My client is currently selecting the work that he would like to be included in the website for each section.

Piracy Website

2010-10-21T11:54:00.000-07:00

This in a screenshot of my wesbtie design. In order to make my website interactive I have the four images just in an outline. When the mouse is hovered over the image for the user to click on the image will be slightly changed. They all change to colour and are enlarged the treasure chest has treasure inside it when the user hovers over it. The four images are all pirate themed:

A map, a skull, a pirate ship and a treasure chest.

When the user clicks on the image they will be taken to the relevant topic. (consequences of piracy/ alternatives/what the law says etc.)

There is a small amount of text on the homapage just to tell users the purpose of the site and how to navigate their way round.

Pirate websites

2010-10-19T11:41:00.000-07:00

I've been doing some research on pirate websites and websites on piracy. These are some that i have found:

The colours used on these websites will be useful for designing mine website on digital piracy.

3 Week Simulated Client Project

2010-10-07T08:12:00.000-07:00

Our brief for the next three weeks is to produce a short multimedia piece that informs about or illustrates Digital Piracy. When I think about Digital Piracy i think of the younger generation, which is what my target audience is going to be. It is mainly younger people downloading illegally on the internet things like Music, films, T.V episodes and software.

I am going to produce a website that informs people on the consequences of digital piracy and the different forms of copyright. My website is going to be informative but i want to try and make it as exciting as possible to look at so the user can engage with the site. A page just full of text stating the consequences of illegal downloading will be boring to look at and to read. The websites that i have come across in researching existing digital piracy websites are all 100% informative and just consisting of text.

Whilst is am aware that the website needs to get across as much information as possible on the subject I plan to come up with a design that limits huge blocks of text at once so the user stays on the website.

Work Experience

2010-09-18T08:29:00.000-07:00

Throughout Some of September I have been doing some Work Experience in a Graphic Design and Web Design company close to where I live. It is a small design company that works in corporate identity, printed literature (illustrations, photography etc) and web design. They work for companies of all sizes.

I found the work experience there very useful, whilst i was continuing using my existing skills i became more confident in using a few programmes that i only knew basics on ( Illustrator especially).

Heston Blumenthal - The Fat Duck

2010-06-30T07:33:00.000-07:00

I was also really impressed with this website. I think it is really clean and neatly put together. All the information is provided that the user will need and it presented in a way that is easy to find.

The part of the website that really caught my eye though was the "About The Fat Duck" section. You use the mouse to interact with the page and navigate your way around. It is the only part of the website that is interactive in this way. All the other pages are purely for information uses. When navigating your way round the "about the fat duck" pages you can find out how Heston Blumenthal manages to get the senses for his food right. For example he explains how he gets his Touch, Smell, Taste and Look of the food perfect.

http://www.thefatduck.co.uk/

Get Him To The Greek

2010-06-30T07:00:00.000-07:00

The other day i went to see Get him to the Greek at the cinema, I thought the film was pretty funny and came home and looked the film up on the Internet as there were so many famous people in it i wanted to see what other films i had recognised them from. I got taken to the get him to the Greek website and was really impressed with it.

From the second you type the website in the site becomes interactive. First there is a page with different options for the user to explore. When the user goes to "Enter Site" as the page is loading and there is a countdown to the Performance your mouse becomes an aeroplane. When the page has loaded you can pick from more things to do.

You can pick from the places that 'Aldous Snow' and 'Aaron Green' went to when trying to get to LA such as London, New York, Las Vegas and Los Angeles. When the user clicks on each place there are different interactive things going on. For example in London you can watch videos and in New York you can find out about cast and crew and the plot etc.

http://gethimtothegreekmovie.co.uk/

Skittles - Experience The Rainbow :)

2010-05-01T09:29:00.000-07:00

I found the Skittles website on the FWA and thought it was really good. I like the design they have gone with displaying different random facts about skittles. They have a part on the website with two sumo wrestlers trying to get people to follow skittles on facebook and twitter. I liked this way to get people to look at the facebook and twitter pages rather than just having the symbols - which they also have at the top of the page

incase the user does not view all the content.

There is endless content on the skittles website. It is the sort of website that you would go back to to see more of as there is so much to do and read on one vi

sit.

I also like the three little facebook, twitter and features widgets that are on the page at all times. As the mouse goes over the symbol there is a small but effective flash element to show the user that they can click on it.

By Big Spaceship.

http://www.skittles.com/

Jean Paul Gaultier Website

2010-05-01T09:01:00.000-07:00

I came across this website which I thought was quite interesting. I like the flash elements that they have incoorporated into the website. As you choose the different areas to view you are directed through an old mansion. When looking at the perfumes you can click on the concierge bell and i particularly like how the hands pop up and you can ask for help on the website if you cant find something or have questions. I think that the navigation could do with being more obvious as it took me a while to find the back button to get back to the index.

http://www.jeanpaulgaultier.com/

YUMI - Group Project

2010-04-21T08:58:00.001-07:00

Yumi Logo:For the group project on YUMI I will be putting most of my posts on the shared blog :

http://ukyumidesign.blogspot.com/

YUMI

2010-04-19T08:53:00.001-07:00

For our group project, our client is an ice cream parlour in Hyson Green, Nottingham. It was set up by a Student at Notthingham Trent studying Interior Architecture.

On Wednesday we had a meeting and took photos of the different things available in the shop along with the interior. We are now waiting for the content off the client as all that is available for customers at the moment is the facebook group.:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=156319783380

These are two reviews on the Parlour:

http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/entertainmentnews/Food-focus-Yumi-Ice-Cream-Parlour-Hyson-Green/article-1311877-detail/article.html

http://alanadale.wordpress.com/2009/10/04/hyson-green-saturday-night-and-sundae-morning/

Hennie Haworth

2010-04-19T08:45:00.000-07:00

Hennie Haworth is a designer i came across when looking at an Christmas advent calender website in December, that i posted on my blog back then. Hennie Haworth is an Freelance Illustrator. I really liked the website, especially the navigation how different pens appear over the text the mouse hovers on.

http://www.henniehaworth.co.uk/

2010-03-16T08:15:00.000-07:00

I will be keeping the same background images throught all 5 pages of the website, these are two of the ideas for the biography and the gallery. The Biography will just be put together in Dreamweaver but the gallery i plan to do as one of my flash elements. Along the bottom is a thumbnail film strip where there are 6 diferent topics to choose to view:

Digital
Hospital
Medium Format
Large Format
35mm film
Goose Club

Once the topic has been selceted a number of images from that project or topic will come up in a box above the thumbnails. I want to somehow explain some of the images and what the topic is about but have not yet decided how to do so.

Navigation

2010-03-15T08:10:00.000-07:00

Contact:

Photography:

Biography:
These are some of the symbols that i will put on the desk for the user to click on, I put these together in photoshop but will import them to flash to experiment with the text and making teh images bigger when the mouse goes over it.

Final Ideas

2010-03-15T08:07:00.000-07:00

I have decided to change my design so it is of an artist looking at their desk. I prefer the older looking desk to the grey one. I have decided that as the mouse hovers over the different topics the poloriod/journal/photoframe will get bigger so the user knows to click on it. This will be done in flash.

Ideas for Website

2010-03-07T06:01:00.000-08:00

Idea 1:

This idea, when the mouse hovers over the text for, biography, contact, photography and journal the text will change colour or light up to become more obvious. My idea with this design was to give the user a taster of what Victorias work is like from a range of different project she has done.

Idea 2:

I prefer this idea as from looking at existing photographer and artists websites they are not too complicated as it would take the attention away from the work. This idea is that the image in the middle will be changing through about 5 different images, probably all connected from the same project. The text, similarly to the first idea will light up in a different colour when the mouse is hovered over it.

More designers websites

2010-02-24T02:40:00.000-08:00

Cindy Sherman Website:

Cindy Sherman's Website is different to the others. I really like the homepage with all the overlapping pictures of her and background of pictures she has taken but once you click to go into the other links of the website i think it is very boring. The layout for the biography is pages of writing which is very overwhelming and the links to look at her artwork is not set out very well either.

http://www.cindysherman.com/index.php

Matteo Basile Website:

Matteo Basile's website is quite similar to the one of Steve Schofield in how the images are displayed in the gallery and how they are navigated. I much prefer this way of presenting someones art work.

http://www.matteobasile.com/index/

Steve Schofield

2010-02-20T03:34:00.000-08:00

I decided to do some research on some of the designers that my friend who I am making the website for is inspired by. I particularly liked the website for Steve Schofield, his website is clean and neatly set out. I like how the images are set out in a thumbnail strip but keep moving so all the pictures can be seen unless you pause it.

Steve Schofield's images range from humorous images of Sci-fi costumers in their own homes, to portraits of leading politicians, actors and musicians. In 2007 The Times named him as one of five artists to watch. His work has won numerous awards, and has been exhibited in galleries in the UK (including the National Portrait Gallery and the Photographers' Gallery), the USA and Europe. He has had a number of solo shows of his personal work and has work in the National Portrait Gallery's permanent collection. He lives in London with his wife Lesley and 10 year old son Louis.

http://www.steveschofield.co.uk/portfolio%20gallery%20grey/portfolio.html

Design Exercise 14: Social Network Integration

2010-02-19T02:49:00.000-08:00

For the website i am creating for an artist I have decided to include Facebook, Twitter and Flickr. They seem the most relevant for mt artists work so people can follow her on social networking sites. Flickr is a social networking site where you can upload photos and videos for free and share them with your followers, you can also edit the photographs, get rid of red eye, crop a photo, or get creative with fonts and effects! Most of the work that I will be uploading to the site will be photographs of my artists work. I have decided to include twitter and facebook for the same reasons that people can follow the artist easily and find out more information on the artist.

These are some examples of websites with links to social networking sites on them. On Gordon Ramsays page he has provided a link to follow him on twitter but Britney Spears has links for all facebook, Twitter, MySpace and youtube. On Gordon Ramsays page he has made the link keeping the blue colour and the twitter symbol which makes the association alot clearer but on Britney Spears' page she has kept them all as individual pink tabs at the top of her page.

Design Exercise 13: Flash Banner

2010-02-12T02:28:00.000-08:00

Scenario: you work for a web design company that had been commissioned to develop a new campaign for your mobile phone. Create a simple flash animation taht links to a main product website and is to be deployed across a variety of websites. 6-8 separate sections that include animation and interaction. Research your phone and its current advertisement and build a new campaign banner.

This is the banner used on the blackberry website, It consists of 5 animations, all similar but stating different reasons to buy the blackberry.

The phone that i am going to advertise is the blackberry bold 9000, this is some of the information i found on the website:

The BlackBerry® Bold™ 9000 smartphone embodies elegant design — without sacrificing the features or functionality you expect from a premium smartphone.

Available Features:

Camera (2.0 MP)
Built-in GPS
Media Player
Video Recording
BlackBerry® Maps
Wireless Email
Organiser
Browser
Phone
Corporate Data Access
SMS/MMS
Wi-Fi® support

This is a blackberry advert on tv

Paiko - Design Exercise 12

2010-02-05T02:31:00.000-08:00

This is a German designers porfolio. I really like the layout and colour scheme of this website. The background looks proffessional and tidy keeping the same design throughout the website on all five pages. The font colour is constant throughout the design but has varied his font style when necessary making titles much bolder and larger.

The portfolio page is clearly layed out and labeled. The different design projects have been separated into differnet sections making it easy for people to find what they are looking for. I like the image gallery options - the user has the option to view more information on the images that they like keeping the page tidy.

The navigation is in English but that is all. Quite difficult for me to understand what the designer is describing on each page but the text seems to be the right amount for the user and there is more available in the content link if people are more interested in the designs.

I like the spacing that this designer has used on his webpages as he has included a good amount of images with text without making the user feel overwhelmed with too much to look at. I would use this sort of layout in one of my designs in the future.

http://paiko.de/index.php

Navigation...

2010-02-05T01:55:00.000-08:00

I have been experimenting on different designs what colour to change my navigation to. I am definatly going to change the text to the same as the rest of the page which is Bradley hang ITC but i think i am going to change the colour to a cream/white as the red and purple seem too dark.

altered index page

2010-02-04T08:17:00.000-08:00

By making the eat, drink, relax, enjoy title smaller the header with homemade will be more obvious.

Alterations to final design

2010-01-29T03:50:00.000-08:00

This is the outcome of my index page. Alterations that i want to make are:

Footer needs to tie in more with the design

Text needs to be consistant throughout the page (navigation and footer is a different font to the main text)

Navigation - possibly change the colour of text or background colour. Change white to a cream - look at colour wheel

The eat, drink, relax, enjoy title needs to be smaller as it is fighting with the title for the first thing you see. Could move it to underneath the title in a smaller size or leave it where it is but just decrease the size.

On the menu, eveing info and contact info thet footer does not tie in atall and i think it could do with some more images or less text as its too overwhelming.

Evenings and Contact Info..

2010-01-29T03:19:00.000-08:00

I have used the same background for the menu, contact info and evening information. The index is slightly different as its the main page but still in purple.

I think the evening page is boring there needs to be some more images or paterns on it. I struggled to include this as there was so much information to fit on the page.

Index Page

2010-01-27T10:07:00.000-08:00

This is the design i have decided on for the index page.. The image does not include the navigation, header and footer as i have put this together in photoshop and it is to the correct dimentions. I have taken photographs of cakes made in homemade and altered them to fit the bottom of the index page. I decided against having a gallery page for this website as there is not enough things to take pictures of to fill a gallery. Instead i am just going to include images from the cafe on different pages.

I have chosen my font to use throughout the website which is Bradley Hand ITC, It was the closest text that i could get to handwriting. I have done two options for the menu. One with black writing and one with purple. I have decided that i am going to go with the black written design as it will go better with the rest of the website. Too many colours will make the website too busy.

I have not included the whole menu on the website as there was just too much to write and it would be too overwhelming for the user.

Headers...

2010-01-27T03:41:00.000-08:00

These are a few of the ideas i have come up with for the header of my website. I have tried out the design with black and white writing. I think the black writing looks better - I think its too much white on my page to have the header and navigation all in white as its abit overwhelming. The stars that i have done on one of the ideas is used in all the menus and alot of the promotional leaflets that are available to take from the cafe.

Wireframes

2010-01-22T03:03:00.000-08:00

The bottom wireframe is the design that i plan to build on. For my design i intend to keep the theme of handwritten text and purple/white colours.

Retail Esablishment Website

2010-01-18T13:03:00.000-08:00

For our two week project we have been told to research then design and build a xtml/css website. I have chosen to design a website for a small cafe in Nottingham called 'Homemade'. It does not have a current website operating, so i thought it would be a good oportunity to try a website completly from scratch without any previous designs.

Homemade is serves a ... open for breakfast, lunch and afternoon tea. Open late on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday evening. You can also hire out homemade for party bookings.

**Runner up of 'Best Cafe/Deli' in the 2009 Nottingham Restaurant Awards**

**Runner up of 'Outstanding Value' in the 2009 Nottingham Restaurant Awards**

**Runner up of 'Best Cafe/Deli' in the 2006 Nottingham Restaurant Awards**

Software Development Models: Waterfall & Whirlpool

2010-01-09T08:22:00.000-08:00

The waterfall model is a sequence development process in which the process is flowing steadily downward through five stages. The next phase cannot be started until the previous one has been completed. By doing this it makes each stage a lot more manageable and helps to keep a high standard of work. The waterfall process cannot be fixed once it has started.

The five phases of the model are:

The Whirlpool model only has four phases, it is different to the waterfall model as it allows the designer to deal with more than one phase at once. The whirlpool model works more to identify problems early on and dealt with before they become too expensive.

In Web Design the whirlpool software development is a better model to use as it is easier to go back and forth when designing. With the waterfall process the designer is very limited as once a decision is made it would be very difficult to change your mind on anything. In Web design as things are changing at such a rapid speed it would be foolish for a designer to commit to designing in one particular method (waterfall) as when new codes etc are developed they are limited to the basic things they originally set up using.

wkadventcalendar.com

2009-12-14T08:41:00.000-08:00

http://www.wkadventcalendar.com/

Found this leading up to Christmas and thought it was bri

lliant.

Mock-ups for my homepage

2009-11-24T06:30:00.000-08:00

More Images for the Website

2009-11-19T08:36:00.001-08:00

Some more pictures for me to consider using when designing my website. I am going to make sure i use all the images i can get hold of showing the-rex in the 1930's but i will be able to experiment more taking my own photographs of the building as it is now.

The Gatsby Idea

2009-11-19T08:30:00.000-08:00

This is one of the designs i have come up with for my page informing people on the Gatsby. (the bar/restaurant below the cinema) I like the Idea how down the right hand side of the page, the Gatsby link will change to take the user back to the homepage. The plan for this page works quite well, but i have now decided i do not want my homepage to be the same, it needs to stand out more.

Replacing Colour in a Logo

2009-11-13T02:53:00.000-08:00

Wireframe of The-Rex

2009-11-03T05:18:00.000-08:00

This is my basic wireframe idea for the opening page of the website for "The-Rex".

It has 5 links to:

Booking Info
History
Listings
The Gatsby (restaurant attached to the Cinema)
Gallery

I have also included a short description of what the-rex is and what it offers. Along with two pictures, old and new of the Cinema.

The Gatsby

2009-10-30T08:05:00.000-07:00

The Gatsby is the Restaurant/Bar that stands below the cinema. It is described as 'the perfect environment to relax, unwind, eat and drink. On the website that i will design although it is mostly representing the rex cinema i will do a link that people can click on to read up a little about the gatsby as it is part of the whole environment.

As the rex did, the gatsby shut down in 1988 and reopened a year later than the rex had in 2005.

www.thegatsby.net

BUILDING::STRUCTURE::ENVIRONMENT

2009-10-29T03:31:00.000-07:00

The Building that I have chosen as a subject for my website is a cinema/restaurant called "The Rex" from at home where I live in Berkhamsted. The Rex first opened in May 1938 and then re-opened in December 2004. I have chosen this building as it has so much atmosphere to it and i think it would be a very interesting project to attempt.

The online environment will be aimed at adults, and used for book and finding out information about the bar/restaurant/cinema. The Rex shows 30 films a month on one screen from big blockbusters to tiny obscure titles. The website would need to be very informative as it would need to show cinema listings, times, menus, opening hours, optional booking etc.

The existing website is www.therexberkhamsted.com

Journal Task: User Generated Content

2009-10-21T09:29:00.000-07:00

As part of one of our online journal tasks we were told to find three websites providing user generated content.

1. Chatterbirds

This website is for birdwatchers, the site is to bring bird lovers together and 'connect with a global network of birdwatchers' members can share their birding and nature photos and manage their own online bird watching diary. I think this site is very informative. As someone who is not very interested in birdwatching, i am not drawn to it but it has everything you would need. You can track and identify bird species and find birding hotspots by country and region. The website is not particularly eye catching i would say it relies on its information it provides as it is a site for a niche market. The content is clearly labeled and organised so everything is very easy to find and navigate towards

www.chatterbirds.com

2. Book Group Online

The second website with user generated content is one called the book group online. This site pretty much does what it says in the title. All the users can read their books and then review them on the networking site set up. All members have the opportunity to publish posts on whichever books they choose. The page is very simple and easy to navigate, its not particularly eye-catching or draws people in immediately but as with the birdwatching website it is the sort that would be visited by members who are purely interested in discussing books.

www.bookgrouponline.com

3. MagicSeaweed

The final site that I have chosen is called MagicSeaweed. On this user content site members can upload Videos, Photographs and discuss popular surfing sites etc. Each member can create their own profile and interact with other surfers. The website is very broad as the members can range from beginners to expert, even people that have never been surfing before. I think this website is very informative as it not only acts as a site for people learning how to surf but also tells people good spots to try out surfing . This website is my favourite out of all three as i think the other two websites the user has to have an interest in the topic. whilst surfing may not interest all people the page certainly draws in peoples attention attention with the photographs and videos playing as soon as the page has loaded up.

www.magicseaweed.com

Joel Schafer - "I'm into minimalistic clean design"

2009-10-20T08:26:00.000-07:00

The designer talks a fair bit about research and how he gets his inspiration. He gets asked what the mistakes he learned from most while in the web design industry and mentions that he rushed into projects without writing a manuscript to follow and now spends days writing before starting a project. I feel like i can relate to this although obviously I'm not as experienced as him, in alot of projects i find myself taking quite a while to get into and understand fully what it is that i want to try and get across to people and how. Schafer plans his webpages completely making sure he is positive on what problems might occur.

Dan Saffer - "Interaction Design Is An Applied Art"

2009-10-20T07:55:00.000-07:00

When reading Dan Saffer's interview it is clear that he has a passion for interactive design. Dan Saffer points out that a designer needs to understand the properties of the medium that they work in. He suggests that you cannot do good design work unless you are aware of the design work that surrounds you. I think the most interesting and important issue that Dan Saffer raised in his interview was that when he was asked the elements of interaction that web designers measure during the creating process, he said that "if the design fills a need in people's lives, works well and looks beautiful, you've got design gold'. I agree with what dan saffer says here as often designers will not manage all three, sometimes only one of them. It is very easy for someone to become comfortable with designing one particular way and never really changing the way in which they do things, as Saffer points out ("falling in love with one direction and not being able to see others")

2009-10-19T08:06:00.000-07:00

A Cloud showing popular social sites. We had to List as many networking sites as we could think of and put them in a hierarchy of popularity. We decided sites such as Google/Facebook/youtube were most popular and sites like Yahoo/Myspace are now not so regularly visited.

A Day In the Life Of Me

2009-04-30T06:02:00.000-07:00

This is my pixilation of a day in the life of me

Who AM I?

2009-04-29T07:26:00.000-07:00

This is my Who Am I element but the music is wrong..It doesnt flow well and the ending doesnt work.. but one of my attemps.

I found the video quite difficult in the end as some words that people chose I already had a number of times off others and some people had tried to be really different and I found thier words didn't at all link with others. I have included all of them as I wanted it to be a fair representation of what other people think of me.

Whiteboard Identity..

2009-04-16T14:54:00.000-07:00

These are two of the pictures I have taken of people I know. I have asked;

Friends I have known for years from home
New friends i have made at uni
Family
Employers

It has gone well, The people that know me the best have found it harder to try and sum me up in one word than those that i have worked for or only known a few months. .. I have got all of my pictures now, I am now in the process of making them into a short film of images.

fuck the whiteboards

2009-04-07T15:09:00.000-07:00

I found this blog today called fuckthewhiteboards. it can be found at

www.fuckthewhiteboard.blogspot.com

It is a guy that explains his work as "taking club photography to another level". He takes his whiteboard out and camera and asks people to write things on his whiteboard.

This is obviously quite similar to one of my elements for my showcase as i intend to take pictures of friends/family etc after they have

written a word on my whiteboard that they think describes me best.

Body of Avatar Rendered

2009-03-27T06:47:00.000-07:00

AV, A day In the Life of me... Editing Images..

2009-03-11T08:43:00.000-07:00

After I had taken all my pictures for one day, It is now time to start editing them in photoshop the way i want them to be seen in the movie. I experimented with three different pictures that i had taken because from past experience with my pixilation project last term, i found that some pictures from different settings didn't look as good as others.

Here are three images that I edited from different times of my day.

After playing around with all the settings i could find, i decided on "Fresco". The reason i chose this application was it gave a sort of comic feel to the images but you were still able to make out what is going on.

More Logo

2009-03-10T07:06:00.000-07:00

This is My final idea for my logo that I have been developing.

Developing Logo Ideas

2009-03-07T07:02:00.000-08:00

2009-03-05T16:08:00.000-08:00

Logo Work

2009-03-05T15:50:00.000-08:00

After some thought I decided that i wanted my logo to have fairy wings in. My idea is to

have only one wing, not both.. but these are just some research and idea sheets that I have put together just to try and get some ideas down. The colours that i am going for are pink/purple/white. These idea and research sheets are also acting as moodboards for me to look back and refer to when I am coming up with more final Ideas. As i have decided I want some text in my logo I have produced a quick type page, with a range of different type faces on so i can pick one easily when it comes to putting my final idea together.

Update

2009-03-05T08:54:00.000-08:00

I Have just taken all my pictures for my AV idea yesterday, "A Day In the Life Of Me"... It went well in the end, but took alot of patience. I decided not to use a tripod, it would of been too difficult and all my images were meant to be seen as if it were my eyes looking at an object. I chose to do a normal day for me that wasn't in the week, so things i would be doing in my own time. Although i shot the pictures on a Wednesday as i needed to get things moving.

Pretty Loaded

2009-03-03T09:12:00.000-08:00

Today I went on bigspaceship.com after being advised to have a look at the website if i was thinking of going onto online environments, I then went on to look at prettyloaded.com which was produced by bigspaceship, I found pretty loaded really usefull to find websites to look at, it was a little easier to follow than the FWA as you got a really quick taste for loads of websites at once. However, i did find that everything was going so fast that i found myself having to keep restarting it to find which websites I liked and disliked the look of.

Moving Biped

2009-02-27T03:01:00.000-08:00

Objects That Describe Me..

2009-02-26T12:35:00.000-08:00

Worm

2009-02-26T05:45:00.000-08:00

This is my Worm sequence rendered before I put them into an animation.

Logo Research

2009-02-25T15:42:00.000-08:00

This is a sheet that i quickly put together of existing logo's that are well known. Not necessarily aesthetically pleasing but, well known all over the world. My idea of a successful logo is one that the customer will automatically know the name of the company when looking at their brand logo. For example when seeing the windows logo, everyone knows what it is for although there is no text on it.

On my logo I think I would like a tiny bit of text, perhaps just my initals. I want the logo to mainly be an image, Too much text and image will make the logo too busy and confusing to look at. I've noticed how most logos don't really have any text at all, some perhaps a caption but at the most about 4/5 words.

Journal Task: Myself as a Shape

2009-02-24T05:28:00.000-08:00

I decided that the shape that best descibes me is a cone. Originally i thought it would be a sphere but when thinking about it i decided that it needed some edges. I wanted a shape that had some corners in but a square and triangle was too harsh and bold for me, so a comprimise seemed to be the cone. I think the cone represents me well because i can have two sides to me, not quite as opposite as the cone but i am very quiet and shy at first but once people get to know me I'm really not very shy at all.

I chose a light blue because i think of it as a calming and peacefull colour. Which reflects me quite well, However I think the fact that blue is my favorite colour has been then main influence on why I chose it. The lighting that reflects off the cone shows how it is smooth and shiny.

SPP Journal Task

2009-02-23T08:59:00.000-08:00

In the past few years i have found that my creativity has been for myself. Whilst working on school projects set, the ones that i found myself enjoying the most were those that I worked on myself . I would often make up scrap books from holidays/trips away and certain experiences. Whilst there i would collect random things to make collages and books out of. I much preferred doing this to just sticking photographs into an album. One project from back at school that i particularly remember enjoying was making a log book of my summer in 2006. We did not know this at the time but the log book would act as research for upcoming projects in my final year such as ones called "My Life". When I have finished my projects they are mostly finished in the way that I wanted, however i do find getting other peoples comments on my work very useful and will sometimes alter how my project appears if i agree with them.

In terms of research helping me to get to these new places, Looking into successful creative environments will help. At the moment i have been going on the FWA website every so often, looking at companies websites and analysing them. When looking at the websites i can see how well they have done and if they have received any awards etc. I also think that getting as much work experience in related areas would really help me to decide what it is exactly i would like to do. In my last year in school and my foundation year I did about 5/6 Individual work experience placements, all different, but i found this really helps to see what the industry is like and how things happen.

Looking at the different starting points, the one that i feel most drawn to is "behind". I think this is because by looking at this you can get to find out most about a creative design. For example why the designer has done something a certain way and how they have done it. Other factors such as influences can be looked into. I would also say that "In Front Of" draws me in as i have mentioned i find it useful getting feedback off people and using their comments weather I apply them or not.

Layout of Car Parts in 3d Max

2009-02-20T03:04:00.000-08:00

Hooky

2009-02-09T13:27:00.000-08:00

I've just been on the fwa again to see what's new. The website i went on today was called hooky. you had to collect lemons on your journey to the lemon factory, and on your way you had to throw your lemons at the baddies - this would free all your buddies. But the aim was to make it to the lemon factory with some spare. I didn't really think much of the website - it made me a little dizzy with the continuous moving screen.

After having a few games i looked into the company to see what the website was all about. It said that they are a 'premium digital creative boutique specializing in the conception and development of rich media advertising and advanced interface design'. They say that their main philosophy is to play by creating bold creative vision with unparalleled technical initiative.

Website: www.hookyinteractive.com

Company: Hooky Interactive

My Octopus on 3D Max

2009-02-06T05:25:00.000-08:00

This is the Animation of the Octopus that we learnt how to put together in todays Seminar.

More Toothpicks...

2009-02-01T12:55:00.000-08:00

These were some of the other ideas that i came up with when experimenting different ways to advertise the toothpicks...

Not Just a Toothpick....?

2009-02-01T12:43:00.000-08:00

This was some advertising I did last year. The brief that i set myself was to see how successful advertising is. I took an object that is never advertised and experimented different ways of advertising it. My final idea was to do a series of posters, each of them i had done something more interesting with the toothpicks. I also designed my own logo for the advertising. I made up a company called "goodpicks", the logo went in the corner of each of the three posters.

The Tale Of Desperaux - Storybook Adventure

2009-01-31T08:09:00.000-08:00

Today I looked at another website from the fwa, this was The tale of desperaux, a storybook adventure. This was an interactive website where you get to make up a story, you choose weather to make it about yourself or a friend. I did mine on myself so you had to pick a name, age, make the character look like you and choose where they are from. Once you have given in all the information needed you get to watch a story about yourself.

You also get given the option to play games throughout the story, for example, at one stage I had to make "the vegetable man" have a real face by using vegetables for his eyes, ears, nose and mouth. Another game was finding my way through a maze successfully without being caught by flying creatures. You cant

move onto the next stage of the story without completing the task, which i think keeps people interested in what is happening.

Address: www.desperauxadventure.com

Company: Ralph

Moodboard for my Identity

2009-01-30T17:04:00.000-08:00

This is just one of my simple moodboards that i put together, i focused mainly on yellow as i always think of yellow as a happy colour, which i think reflects me quite well. All the objects in this moodboard somehow reflect me as a person. This board doesn't really link to my avatar but it is just a start to help me begin thinking about myself as a person, perhaps some of the factors that i will include in my logo design.....

The Ford 2010 Fusion

2009-01-26T13:56:00.000-08:00

One of the websites that caught my eye today was the ford 2010 fusion. When reading the little explanation of the website, i noticed that the company that designed the website was Wunderman, Detroit. This interested me because in the summer I did some work experience with this company (in London) and worked on the website and Digital marketing for the Ford Kruger that came out in November 2008.

The website for the new ford fusion gave you all the information that you would need to know about the new 2010 ford fusion in a "full screen gallery experience". The tag line for this car is "One Car. Three Personalities". I think this is a really affective line as it makes you want to click on each of the three different cars to find out what you can do.

Website: www.2010fusion.soleilnoir.net

Company: Wunderman Team Detroit

Research...

2009-01-23T11:30:00.000-08:00

I began looking at some artists work as we have to design an interactive box/showcase. One of the artists that i began looking at after Roma gave us a lecture before Christmas was Joseph Cornell, the american artist and sculptor.

Joseph Cornell's most characteristic art works wer

e boxed assemblages created from found objects. Simple boxes, usually glass fronted, which he arranged surprising collections of photographs of victorian bric-a-brac. Joseph Cornell are interactive and are meant to be handled. Many of Joseph Cornell's work involved colourful images of various birds set against white harsh backgrounds.

I also had a look at Joseph Cornell's interactive page called "Navigating The Imagination" at

www.pem.org/cornell

Autodesk 3d

2009-01-23T02:46:00.000-08:00

This is my first animation, using autodesk 3D...

Deviant Art Link

2009-01-21T08:40:00.000-08:00

Finally the link for my interactive narrative work that i hadn't posted on here;

http://emmach10.devaintart.com/art/Interactive-Narrative-106114917

Self Identity...

2009-01-21T05:45:00.000-08:00

The task we have beens set, to research the concept of self identity and what it means to me...

I think that self identity is something that makes you unique from everyone else, i would describe it as something that is shown through people's personalities, hobbies, interests, skills and appearance. All of these concepts together make up someone's self identity, it would not be possible for one factor to explain self identity because others would have the same. The likelihood of having exactly the same interests, appearance, hobbies etc as someone else, however, would not happen. I think that self identity can be found by yourself, but for a true reflection on your self identity using other people's views on your identity would be extremely useful. Your self identity is obviously going to alter throughout your life as you would never have the same interests that you do at the age of 3 as at the age of 70, i think that possibly looking at things that used to interest me and achievements should be interpreted into my work because it makes you who you are.

More Second Life...

2009-01-20T07:55:00.000-08:00

Ok so today when i went on, i got some invite to join a random in "Cupidus" so I accepted the offer to try and see what else there is to second life, but Im not really sure what i got myself into. There are just random clouds everywhere and noone has a body. It's like a few of us have been trapped there because everyone was just asking what are we doing here?and who is this chap thats summoned us?

I got talking to some french person who has asked me to be their friend so i accepted but that was a bit rubbish as, with me knowing about 3 words in french we couldn't really talk about much. however then some other people started to join in our short conversation and talk english and things got a bit easier. ... After a while i was starting to t

ry and figure out how to get out of this cupidus place with floating heads but then i got another invite to join someone in "Hanguel", so i went along but again everyone was talking in foreign - this time in spanish, lucky for me almost straight away i got another invite "Long Beach" this sounded a lot more like i could have some english conversations and a bit more fun. which i did i met a nice "glitter girl" who seems to be some sort of pro on second life and told me how to do quite a lot of stuff.

Images from Coke Zero

2009-01-19T12:41:00.000-08:00

Coke Zero Dance Game

2009-01-19T12:25:00.000-08:00

After my meeting on thursday discussing my blog i was told about a website that has all favorite website awards on (fwa). I have just visited the Coke Zero new website, it was an interactive website, you had to pick to be a tongue or an eyeball with legs.... strange. The game was to have a dance off, by clicking at the right times to get the tongue or eyeball to dance with the music. I managed to win my game and got 28,356 points - but that was poor apparently...

The website for the coke zero dance game was; www.icoke.ca/dancehero

Second Life update..

2009-01-12T07:41:00.000-08:00

So today i decided to have another go at my second life.. I think I'm getting the hang of what's going on but it still frustrates me. I am shocking at trying to control Woo, she looks drunk when i try to make her walk places because i have to keep going backwards and walking into stuff.

I've been speaking to a few people but still they all seem to be completly new to second life too, which is a bit annoying but i plan to try and venture out a little more. trying to figure out how to get to other lands, its all still very confusing.

Second Life..

2009-01-09T03:42:00.000-08:00

This was me trying to change some of the features of WOO, i was desperate to change her clothes!!! I'm not really sure what look i was going for with her because she doesn't look like me at all...

My second life character is called Woo Greybeard... these are a few of the screenshots i first took when i was still getting the hang of second life. When i loaded the second life programme after creating my account, i found it a little overwhelming as there is so much you can do and i didn't know where to start...a few of the people that i tried talking to were also saying to me they didn't understand the programme either and that this was their first time..

Emma Charnock

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Software Development Models: Waterfall & Whirlpool

wkadventcalendar.com

Mock-ups for my homepage

More Images for the Website

The Gatsby Idea

Replacing Colour in a Logo

Wireframe of The-Rex

The Gatsby

BUILDING::STRUCTURE::ENVIRONMENT

Journal Task: User Generated Content

Joel Schafer - "I'm into minimalistic clean design"

Dan Saffer - "Interaction Design Is An Applied Art"

A Day In the Life Of Me

Who AM I?

Whiteboard Identity..

fuck the whiteboards

Body of Avatar Rendered

AV, A day In the Life of me... Editing Images..

More Logo

Developing Logo Ideas

Logo Work

Update

Pretty Loaded

Moving Biped

Objects That Describe Me..

Worm

Logo Research