Dec. 17 Resources

Grid Buildrrr

Create Detailed Audio player interface in photoshop

Computer Arts Magazine (great tutorials)

Digital Arts Magazine (good tutorials as well)

Dec. 15 Homework

1. Refine your DVD menu designs for Wednesday. Appropriate and significant improvements to your project can potentially boost your overall project 3 grade. The clients, Julie Hengle and Mark Harris, will be critiquing your designs Wednesday morning. Please be ready to present your projects at 10:00 AM.

2. You must submit an archive of all your work (all completed in class exercises, homework assignments, and projects 1, 2 and 3) completed in this class on a CD or DVD. Be sure to label your files properly, and save multiple files from same projects/assignments in a labeled folder. Go through the class blog archive to find the appropriate in class exercise or homework file names for your work.

*This archive delivery is worth 10% of your overall class grade.

*Please include your Photoshop and/or Illustrator files from the DVD menu project on your archive CD/DVD. Your archive CD/DVD is due at 9:00AM Wednesday.

Dec. 15 Resources

NotForPaper
Design and Creative News from Evato

Dec. 10 Resources

Good Designers.... sketch
Gardiner Richardson's Christmas site
Usability Post

Dec. 8 Homework

Continue to work on your DVD menu designs. You have one week until your final designs are due. Remember to consult the project 3 post to make sure you've fulfilled all the technical requirements.

Complete the design of another page of project 3 by next class Dec. 10, 9am. I will conduct one-on-one critiques of these designs on Wednesday. Your designs for the different screens should be consistant. While exploring consistent visual styles based on your chosen theme/concept, your screens should be in no way exactly nonidentical (don't just change the text of the buttons screen to screen). Look at some of the DVD examples posted on the blog to understand this reasoning.

More DVD examples

Rushmore






Blair Witch Project




Empire Records




Taebo


School of Rock

Dec. 3 Homework

1. Read this online article 3 Components of Good Web Design. There will be a quiz on this article at the start of Monday, Dec. 8 class.

2.

Further develop your central concept or theme that you will base your DVD menu design upon. This involves research. Take into consideration your target audience, their tastes, perspectives, expectations. Find visual influences through fashion related fields, music, movies, magazines. Also browse through Photoshop/Illustrator tutorial sites to help gather appropriate details to apply to your designs that will make your interface polished and professional.

Make your interface designs ATTRACTIVE! After all, this DVD menu design is for a fashion related event. The fashion industry relies heavily upon looking good, keeping up with trends culturally, visually and stylistically.

Then create the main menu screen interface to be used in Project 3. Consult the project 3 technical requirements for the specific components that need to be displayed on the main menu screen.

Export your Main Menu screen design file as a JPEG. Your Main Menu Screen design JPEG is due by 9am, Dec. 8. You will be presenting this to the client at the start of next class.