Grid Buildrrr
Create Detailed Audio player interface in photoshop
Computer Arts Magazine (great tutorials)
Digital Arts Magazine (good tutorials as well)
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Monday, December 15, 2008
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.
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.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Monday, December 8, 2008
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.
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.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
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.
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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.
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Dec. 3 In Class Exercise (Project 3 concept/theme)
By the end of class I want to see a concept sketch (on paper is just fine) and three to four sentences explaining your concept theme. Perhaps talk about some influences that inspired and/or sparked your concept theme, and tell me why it is an appropriate theme to explore for this project and targeted audience.
Dec. 3 Resources
Cool Artists
Barry Van Dijk
Jeremy Fish
More designing with grids resources
Cybele (fashion illustrator)
Image inspiration
ffffound.com
We Heart It
vi.sualize.us
Flickr.com
Barry Van Dijk
Jeremy Fish
Monoscope (good blog, image inspiration)
3 Components of Good Web Design (good article)More designing with grids resources
Cybele (fashion illustrator)
Image inspiration
ffffound.com
We Heart It
vi.sualize.us
Flickr.com
Monday, December 1, 2008
Project 3: DVD Menu Design
A. Objective
For the third multimedia display assignment, you will be designing the interface for a DVD Menu. This DVD menu will be used in an interactive DVD featuring video and images from an event called, “Passion For Fashion”. Your client for this project is the Art Institute of Ohio-Cincinnati.
Create an interface that is visually engaging, as well as functional. You must continue to research and analyze existing interactive design as well as DVD menu design. Take into consideration information architecture, content structure, navigation, visual hierarchy, positioning/alignment, usability and fundamental design principles while developing your designs.
B. Technical Requirements
1. Canvas Dimensions: 720 x 480 pixels
2. You must create at least 4 sectional DVD menu interface screens that match the following criteria:
- One screen must display the Main Menu interface, which at a minimum should feature a title, the Art Institute logo, and the following buttons: play video, image gallery, additional info
- One screen must display the interface for the Image Gallery
- One screen must display the Collateral information (informational text about the event)
- One screen must display the Video selection interface (allow the user to pick which video to watch: a one minute video, a three minute video, outtake clips/deleted scenes)
3. EACH of your buttons must have a normal state AND hover state
4. You must incorporate the existing AI logo as well as create a logo/branding for the title “Passion for Fashion” to be used in somewhere in your DVD menu interface
5. You must submit the following files for the final project delivery
- a PSD file with your interface elements on separate layers.
- JPEGs of each of your 4 sectional pages with corresponding JPEG that show the hover state of button
C. Due Dates
1. Typeface/Color sheet (worth 10% of project 3 grade) due 12/03/08.
2. First round of designs to be reviewed by client (worth 10% of project 3 grade) due 12/08/08.
3. Completed Project (worth 80% of project 3 grade) due 12/15/08.
*Everyone must submit a completed project. Late work will be accepted for the completed project phase, however, your project grade will drop 10% for every day it is late (turning it in at 9:14am on Dec. 15 is considered 1 day late)
For the third multimedia display assignment, you will be designing the interface for a DVD Menu. This DVD menu will be used in an interactive DVD featuring video and images from an event called, “Passion For Fashion”. Your client for this project is the Art Institute of Ohio-Cincinnati.
Create an interface that is visually engaging, as well as functional. You must continue to research and analyze existing interactive design as well as DVD menu design. Take into consideration information architecture, content structure, navigation, visual hierarchy, positioning/alignment, usability and fundamental design principles while developing your designs.
B. Technical Requirements
1. Canvas Dimensions: 720 x 480 pixels
2. You must create at least 4 sectional DVD menu interface screens that match the following criteria:
- One screen must display the Main Menu interface, which at a minimum should feature a title, the Art Institute logo, and the following buttons: play video, image gallery, additional info
- One screen must display the interface for the Image Gallery
- One screen must display the Collateral information (informational text about the event)
- One screen must display the Video selection interface (allow the user to pick which video to watch: a one minute video, a three minute video, outtake clips/deleted scenes)
3. EACH of your buttons must have a normal state AND hover state
4. You must incorporate the existing AI logo as well as create a logo/branding for the title “Passion for Fashion” to be used in somewhere in your DVD menu interface
5. You must submit the following files for the final project delivery
- a PSD file with your interface elements on separate layers.
- JPEGs of each of your 4 sectional pages with corresponding JPEG that show the hover state of button
C. Due Dates
1. Typeface/Color sheet (worth 10% of project 3 grade) due 12/03/08.
2. First round of designs to be reviewed by client (worth 10% of project 3 grade) due 12/08/08.
3. Completed Project (worth 80% of project 3 grade) due 12/15/08.
*Everyone must submit a completed project. Late work will be accepted for the completed project phase, however, your project grade will drop 10% for every day it is late (turning it in at 9:14am on Dec. 15 is considered 1 day late)
Sunday, November 30, 2008
DVD Menu examples
Royal Tenenbaums
Mallrats
Napoleon Dynamite
Art of Speed (Nike Promo)
Trainspotting
Best of Blur
Mallrats
Napoleon Dynamite
Art of Speed (Nike Promo)
Trainspotting
Best of Blur
Jaws
Apocalypto
Dec 1 Resources
Web Page layout (color) example for quiz
Cool sites
Donnie Darko
DVD Menu Design
Digital Video Team
Obedient Media
Eyeframe (DVD Menu design studio)
Cool sites
Donnie Darko
DVD Menu Design
Digital Video Team
Obedient Media
Eyeframe (DVD Menu design studio)
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
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