SPP ECOM

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

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

I have been experimenting with different navigation options in illustrator.

Client Project- Design and layout.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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/