Written February 25, 2009 and published in Degree Stuff | 0 Comments
Today was very helpful for the individual major project thanks to Helen. There were some problems last week as the presentation was too specific and too narrow for this stage of the project. Today was a post-it frenzy looking at various user profiles for photography and the result of those profiles. More specifically, why do people in those profiles exist in those profiles? Read more…
Written February 19, 2009 and published in Illustration | 2 Comments
Watching Russell Smith do some illustrations of TVs, a Playstation III and some speakers today on another project I was inspired to try some myself. I decided to pick an Xbox 360 Elite (None of that Playstation III nonsense) and found a picture online which was placed in the Illustrator file for reference. Then the drawing and manipulating started.
I love Illustrator because you can zoom right in and the quality of the image remains constant because it was drawn with vectors.
Anyway, below is the final result. If you want to take a look at the finished illustrator file I have included it here for your pleasure.
Written February 16, 2009 and published in Degree Stuff | 0 Comments
The final major project has taken second place to the current collaborative project 0 Wallpaper but it is about time for an explanation of what it is about.
The theme is data organisation and navigation which has been focussed to digital media and so far has been limited to the online environment.
For the presentation today the media selected was images and portrayed as ‘the life of a photo’ and a side-by-side case study was conducted for Picasa, Flickr and Facebook with regard to uploading and editing.
Post-it notes show what features each site has so common themes could be established. This also allows for a contrast between them detailing the differences.
The feedback from the presentation suggested that the focus needed to be more broad and look at profiles of users of the systems such as a Flickr Pro user. This will refine what it is the project aims to look at.
The answer then is to profile a Flickr pro user and their ‘life of a photo’. What do they use Flickr? How do they use Flickr? This is the approach that needs to asserted before the project can enter fully into detailed analysis such as what was presented today.
Written February 5, 2009 and published in Degree Stuff | 0 Comments
There is a new blog in town!
For the collaborative major project this term, a new blog has been set up hosted by those kind people at Wordpress.com.
It will contain most of the information relating to the project progression.
http://0wallpaper.wordpress.com
