I had my senior Visual Communication show on Monday, and it would seem like I have nothing to do. Though, I’ve been working on some freelance work in the past two days. I got some logo sketches done for Putnam County Partners in Prevention and a theme/logo for the MH Film Festival. Check ’em out. […]
Rolling out the websites
I’ve got website projects in all stages of production. A recent website project for Truman Media Network (TMN) is being programmed right now http://transfer20.truman.edu. My goal for TMN was to make it very accessable to visitors. I took many cues from CNNs website. Also this was a test in “making a website with an existing logo that isn’t […]
Misconceptions of Designing for the Web
Websites should look pretty and that’s all that matters. They should be well designed, but from a usability standpoint. It’s not a magazine ad, where the audience just looks at and reads it. Think about how the user will navigate through the site, their Internet speed, browser support, search engine optimization. I don’t know HTML […]
The Photo-Manipulation Debate
As journalists we believe the guiding principle of our profession is accuracy; therefore, we believe it is wrong to alter the content of a photograph in any way that deceives the public. As photojournalists, we have the responsibility to document society and to preserve its images as a matter of historical record. It is clear […]
Great Newspaper Ads pt. 1
I’m new to designing ads for newspapers, but not new to designing and laying out newspaper pages. I worked a semester at the Truman Index. I stared at very full newspaper pages with columns and columns of text all the time while trying to fit even more stuff in there. It’s all about how much […]
Back to the Future
Back to the Future For me, the design work I’ve done in the past sometimes inspires or informs me about where I should be going with my design in the future. I sometimes look at old artwork or design of mine and wonder how I ever did it because I don’t feel I’m currently creating […]
logo design. gecko style . I finally got to puttin…
logo design. gecko style .I finally got to putting the “limber” gecko into my existing gecko mathematics logo. I wanted to appeal to kids by making it look like it’s crawling around… a sense of movement in a still image. I started out by rastorizing the ‘o’ in gecko and cutting parts of it out […]
“what the heck’s with geck?” continued… I recei…
“what the heck’s with geck?” continued… I received valuable feedback on my first try at a gecko. These are my changes, I reversed the color to be dark on the edges and lighter at the center, made the eyes less scary, and made the gecko skinnier with smaller back legs. On a technical note, I […]
On the (Photoshop) Drawing Board gecKo mathematic…
On the (Photoshop) Drawing Board gecKo mathematics I’m working to complete all the secondary pages for this website, then I need to brainstorm ideas for how to present a math workbook online so that parents and teachers can see the teacher manuals and student workbook all on the same webpage. For all you teachers out […]
Korean Math Redux I mentioned in the last post tha…
Korean Math ReduxI mentioned in the last post that I would be redesigning the Korean Mathematics website for a professor. I have previously done illustration for this project. First let’s see the current website design: I wanted to make the navigation easier to… you guessed it, NAVIGATE. The wording of the links were also very […]