I have been intrigued generally about how people have hypothesized the internet to grow into in the past. In recent years the internet has taken over print, I believe that build your own story would be a brilliant idea for literature to take over the internet. It reminded me alot of the Goosebumps books so I decided to merge that typeface with the worlds largest create your own adventure–Google!
I found this article very interesting because recently I have been thinking a lot about how we experience moving through spaces. I think the legitimacy of the interaction is often placed below the interest founded in moving through time. However I believe that our ability to move through space is infinitely more interesting than moving through time would ever be. Because we already move through time at the pace we are at it is only the speed that would change. Just the idea of there being depth in spaces is amazing. That we can move forward and back through spaces that we create is incredibly interesting. The three diminutional then being interrupted into the two dimensional is a tough task. Certain nuances are bound to be lost. The feeling of the ground beneath your feat and the brush of the air around you is gone however the most interesting aspect, the experience of depth is achieved.
I decided to try to create depth using boxes. As you click through the colors rotate to simulate depth.
I read Pleasurable design and agree with it entirely. As an industrial designer in our current global state of affairs it is extremely important to be away of what we are producing. If we produce a dangerous car we are murderers. We walk a very thin line as creates, with the constant possibility that we may do something wrong or that someone may be inspired by us to do something wrong. We play many roles as creator, we can be an entertainer, a stylist, a helping hand, a shelter and countless more. One of the most important facets of design to keep in mind is pleasure. There is never anything wrong in pure pleasure, it is never something we have to fear. I was inspired by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec and decided to make a website inspired by their designs.
I set all the vectors i created off of their work to transparencies and percentages so that they would overlap in different ways when you expanded the page.
I hate the social construction of taste. By collecting records, drinking dark coffee and having an iPhone all of a sudden you have more cultural currency than someone who listens to One Direction, drinks Sunny D and has a flip phone. These ideas we link to our level of education and therefore our wealth and intelligence. With the rise of fast fashion and more easily accessible forms of cultural currency there has been a need to divide what is good and what is bad in order to other, to bring ourselves up higher in the hierarchy and push everyone else down as we go. To respond to this article I coded a ridiculous list of people to avoid
people to avoid
This article spoke to me in terms of making active choices as a designer. Playing it safe, making everything exactly the same is undeniably clean however also deathly boring. Not only do you have to break the rules you have to do so with purpose. I made a gif saying “symmetry is boring” because it is. I stayed away from my normal color palette and tried something brighter using shapes I wouldn’t usually choose to use. I had fun.
Katie Kavolcin
What type of companies have they worked for? Currently working at Sparkbox
Or, what types of companies do they have as clients?
Old Spice wanted to create a Museum of Manliness to show off the brand’s personality via the iconic Buoy Bottle design. I was able to have fun with the brand to create a space for an event to showcase everything Old Spice, including a “mandelier,” hand-shaved typography, and a giant buoy bottle wall.
Where did they learn how to do their job? How many years of experience do they have?
She has a degree in graphic design from Columbus College of Art & Design where she obsessed over typography and layouts.
What are the skills they use every day?
When her face isn’t pressed against her computer screen she can be found obsessing over her dog, riding her bike, and traveling.
What software or programming languages do they know?
She loves to be involved in the entire process, from research to wireframes to concepts through full execution.
Who are their mentors or influencers—people they admire?
She did not say anybody, however all of her work revolves around women’s rights especially equaling the playing field for women in web design.
Finally, find 3 projects in their portfolio that you enjoy and describe why you enjoy each one in 3–4 sentences. Save links to a few images of each project or (if the projects are existing websites) links to live websites.
Old Spice
http://kovalc.in/projects/old_spice.html
This was a pop up museum created by Old Spice to present how manly they are. I think this is a strong contrast to most of her work which focuses primarily with women issues. However it is very aesthetically pleasing and has a sense of humor.
Bernie Sander’s T-Shirts
A lot of her work involves political and social activism and alines well with my point of views. I love these shirts anything used to push Bernie’s campaign I am always for. I find them extremely aesthetically appealing and relevant to the age group/ visual audience that would be perspective voters.
https://dribbble.com/shots/2143978-BERNIE-2016
Girl Develop It
https://www.girldevelopit.com/materials/intro-web
She teaches at the program Girl Develop It. This foundation was created in order to give free classes to women who want to have careers in web design. There is great information on the website which is also easily understood.
Compile all of the information you just researched and post it to our class website under the Category “Web Designer Profile”