Minutes…Hugo
October 31, 2007
Ken has developed a basic CSS white space layout and instead of using extensive flash on the homepage, he has used Javascript. Well Done! We have told him to do a tutorial on his javascript imaging transition on his blog as this will be a beneficial thing for us.
Suzanne will be selecting images i.e. photos for our gallery on the front page. Luke will be looking up his flash slideshow, although Aqeel has suggested using the javascript method, which we all agree looks very effective and clean. Me and Luke are going to look over flash animations possibly 3D.
In terms of future plans. We are looking to finalise the layout and come together with at least the staff profiles layout finalized in the nearby future. Aqeel needs to define the services content using selling language and this will need to be reinforced in the final presentation aspect.
Ken is feeling very brave and wants to “do this” and get this finalized as we have a lot of courseworks kicking in the next couple of weeks.
So the target for this week…
Suzanne to finalise pictures
Luke to finalise some flash galleries and animation
I’m going to come up with some portfolio material i.e. flash and 3D stuff.
Aqeel is going to have the logo ready for ken by Friday (THIS IS A MUST!) and then will look at finalizing content and looking at some illustration over the weekend.
Next Monday, touch wood, famous last words, anything else that falls into that category we should have something at a near ready/finished stage.
New name for 205!!
October 17, 2007
All in all, its been a positive week, despite a bit of a burn out week.
I have come up with a new name, and it is the final one!!! Dead Pixel.
It’s very apt for our specialty. The dead pixel represents an annoying thing, i.e. a company that has an identity that just isn’t working, or is dated like an old monitor, and our job is to get rid of this dead pixel, give it a fresh look and new dynamic.
We are now moving forward to this and have been thinking about designs, and where we can go with this. We have decided to look at Howies .
We love this site because it’s clean, crisp, sharp and well laid out. It has the right message and concept. Using this same website, we can adopt a similar principle and maybe introduce a picture element to it.
The target for next time we meet up, is a vector based image. Just to brush up on our skills and maybe introduce it into the site. There is a definite possibility that this may not fit in with our site, but we are willing to give it a shot. Also there’s been a suggestion that we add some content to the branding, marketing and media section. So we’re going to give some description and see how we can incorporate it.
The aim is to get this site completed in CSS format asap together and then complete a flash format. So far we are on track and have done well all round.
We be brainstorming
October 7, 2007
Just got back from a meeting with Mr Barrs and Big Aq, we know what we need to do but just a lil’ stumped on how to do it, we all know that the code is out of our depth for now and it’s getting the better of us. We have worked out roughly how to extract the info but using the info and converting it into something visual is proving to be difficult. I have looked at examples of previous years work using the Arch-os system but the visual output was very poor.
We also had a chat about the company that we have to create, thinking of an original and appropriate name also proved difficult, we started with the slogan Imitations of imitators but thats too long, then we went onto Klass (this the the first letter of all of our names… Kenny, Luke, Aqeel, Suzie and of course me… Simon), now we have got to the word Crisp, to conjure up thoughts of precision and accuracy which are imperative when looking for a design company. Now we are currently bouncing around more ideas for names.
Its now Identity!!!
Now that all of the modules have now had the chance to explain themselves we have been able to start getting our ideas together, which is very very promising so far.
The Java module is going very well, Hugos module is a breeze our group are more than capable than the tripe that were so called “examples” and as for Joasias’ well we had an ex-student in today called Duncan Shingleton, Please follow THIS link to his work. He was telling us about the right ways to go about doing the course, my personal opinion is that it differs between people his methods of absorbing information seemed to be different to mine, he gave us a few really good tips about the essay basically start early as possible. The 3D lecture was a weird one were had a lecture on Art movements…
We had a meeting with Chris today which enabled Me, Kenny and Aqeel to run by some ideas about the organism project, he didnt advise differently like expected, instead he pointed us in a direction in which we were already heading. In Brief, we are trying to extract information from a medium and produce this data in sort sort of abstract format. One idea was to have the screen blur over, it would get more blurry if the user had lots of information on their screen. We have decided to contact Mike Philips who we know runs the Archos system in the University.
In other news… work was rubbish, Guy has convinced me to play Battlefield 2 this gives me a break from World of Warcraft. Jo starts college tomorrow, she isn’t taking it very well and is worried about meeting new people. She’ll be fine.
