FMP Day 3

Today i began on planning my design development cycle, planning what ill research, my idea generation and what ill experiment. Ive also begun my research into statisticians, beginning with 'Edward Tufte' who is well known for his information graphics. I also helped moving things around the college gallery.

FMP Day 2

Today i dedicated to getting my idea clear in my head, ive researched into several existing calenders and also Edward Tufte who is incredible at information graphics. I also sketches up a few starting ideas to the layout of my 4 pages, each page focusing on 1 quarter of the year (e.g January February and March) 

Start of FMP Project

Today, for the first part of my FMP project i have been idea generating in terms of what ill do and and in what way. I settled upon the idea of creating a calender, however, the hard part is creating a calender which will stand out and not be like any old calender. I also want to encorporate another idea into, e.g show last years weather stats or even show fashion which fits the season/weather (black and white with layers for wintenr, summer colours and less layers for summer) 

Type Outcome

This is an outcome i made during the type project. I created an illustration of Giambattista Bodoni using his font 'Bodoni Std'. I like this outcome as i have used a large amount of letters at difference opacity's to create the shadows on the image to give abit more depth too the piece as a whole. This isn't my final outcome for the project, however, it has sparked ideas for my outcome e.g using letter forms to create an image.

Independent Graphic Designers

Indpendent Graphic Design

JK Design

This is the website for JK Designs, a small business run by six graphic designers. I instantly like this website due to the humor they've added to it showing images of them smiling/laughing and including funny facts like how many coffees they go through a day. Their website is nice and simplistic, this makes it easier to navigate through and you aren't attacked with loads of text as soon as you enter the site. It also has a lot of nice photography, this makes the website more interesting to look at.

Lee Mason Design

This website is for Lee Mason Designs. I like the overall layout of the website, the nice use of imagery being the focal point of the website as soon as you enter, it flicks through recent works by the designer. Its also nice simple and easy to you, you can navigate through the site so easily with no issues at all.

Web Project

Bad Website Analysis

www.drivingskills.on.ca - This website is terrible. The background is horrendous, then the fact that the image is tiled over and over is stupid. The text is just a blur of different colours, italics, bold and underlined. The images are either irrelevant or pixelated. Some of the text is also moving and flashing which just makes the whole website hard to read and annoying.

www.sfp8.com - This website isn't as bad as the previous one but its just so dull and boring you almost cant be bothered to read it. This one isn't technically awful, its just as though there's being a half hearted effort put into it.

http://www.msy.com.au/ - This website is overly crammed full of adverts or horrible little squares of information. There seems to be no attempt at organizing the information besides cramming as much as they could into one webpage. I think the designer has a particular liking for white on red as that seems to be all he wants to do.


Good Websites

H.G Esch

I found H.G Eschs' work through Frieze magazine. His photography ranges from Commissioned work for Films and Interior Architecture to Free works in Mega cities like New York and Singapore.I love the wide variety of photography he does and the fact he hasn't stuck to one specific style of photography.

Carpet Concepts - Munchenbernsdorf, 2009.  I really like the composition and symmetry of this piece of photography. Its very pleasing to the eye.

Unknown City. This picture is interesting to look at because it makes the huge city looking small and insignificant somehow. With the low fog also smothering

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