Tuesday, September 11th, 2007
If you really want to make good origamis I can give a few advices on the type of paper you might want to use:
-Origami Paper, it’s the best you can get, but expensive.
-Gift Paper, it’s really useful, but it cannot be any type of paper, it has to be the one with a brown color on the back. Maybe the clerk at the store will think you just went bananas when asking for this, but it really exists and that’s the one you need for your Origami. Normally the back part of the wrapping paper is white.
I usually advice people to use this type of papers because they’re easily to fold and to handle. So when it comes to the folding part of the origami, the paper won’t have wrinkles all over it.
Once you have the paper part covered, you’d need to cut in these three sizes:
6″ x 6″
7″ x 7″
8″ x 8″
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Thursday, August 2nd, 2007
(An adaptation from Peter Vogt’s, “Five Signs you Should Change Your Major”.)
Give yourself a point for each question below you answer ‘yes’ to:
1. You’d rather be surfing myspace during a lecture or presentation or you can’t stop surfing during class breaks.
Let’s face it, it’s not really the teacher’s lecture that has you so bored because you’re bored our of your mind when doing homework for graphics courses as well. Maybe you’re also having a hard time convincing yourself that you should keep trying to read that textbook or project description? We both know that it’s not that you don’t like to read, but more so that you would rather be reading something else like emails and new posts on your myspace page. It doesn’t have to be this way, you know? You shouldn’t have to try so hard to find something about graphic design that you’re interested in enough to let go of the myspace and dig, really dig, into graphic design on a deeper level. Couldn’t it be that you really don’t like design as much as you’re trying to convince yourself and everyone else you do?
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Friday, July 27th, 2007
A representation of content, related to an individual, business or any other topic; using design and graphic principles on the internet in the form of web applications and web sites is known as web design. Web design usually involves and uses technologies and standards such as HTML, CSS, XML, SSL, PHP, ASP, etc.
Web design differs completely from web development, which is more technical and deals with issues concerning the web site dynamics, validations and constraints. The principle of web site design further involves conception and collection of web pages, that in turn, collectively are known as a single entity, a web site. Web pages are usually the basic content and design holders for the entire web site.
Web design involves great many characteristics of design. The web site design usually depends completely on the type of content. The web site design should be consistent with the content offered by the site and should be able to please the target population looking for such content. Web site design, should be such that it renders the site almost maintain ace free. It should also be user-friendly, with the most basic navigational concepts instilled and an interface that keeps bringing its users back for more. Thus web design plays a very heavy hand in retaining the web traffic. Aesthetics should be eye pleasing and should be consistent throughout the web site. The whole idea of web design, caters around the presentation of the content posted on the web page, this should be kept in mind during the design phases, so that the content is stark and completely readable without any hindrances. Web design definitely affects the online business and visitor retention a lot, no body wants to visit a web site again which is poorly design and the navigating is a pain.
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Friday, July 13th, 2007
A term often applied to a perceived ongoing transition of the World Wide Web from a collection of websites to a full-fledged computing platform serving web applications to end users. Ultimately Web 2.0 services are expected to replace desktop computing applications for many purposes. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0
A lot believe Web 2.0 is social networking and that they too can have a Web 2.0 site if it contains enough social networking tools. It’s a bit of a stretch calling web based applications that have more social features like tagging and AJAX, Web 2.0. It’s the same Web as it has been in the 90’s. Sure MySpace and YouTube are hits with 100’s of companies trying to imitate them but as far as the definition goes they are NOT expected to “replace desktop computing applications”.
Social networking is cool and in some cases even important, I like it. But, more people just sit at their screens trying to find a job, someone to hire or someone to date. Shouldn’t it be saving us time and get us out into the world of real time experience? Geocities, a Web 1.0 technology, was doing what MySpace is doing 10 years ago.
Some call blogging Web 2.0 but it’s really just another way of putting content online.If blogging is part of Web 2.0 then this site is up-to-date.
What about the myth that Web 2.0 will dramatically reducing the cost of building great software? Great software is just as hard to make as it was before, whether you use Ruby on Rails or C# or Java, and it costs about the same as well. Is open-source code Web 2.0. Nope. You still have to build something significant on top of all that open-source code you got for free to make it Web 2.0. That still takes work and a lot of money because patching together a bunch of different, sometimes unfinished or buggy, open-source tools into a coherent system to make an application like Google, a true 2.0, is obviously not simple.
Real 2.0 systems were not created in a weekend by 2 guys with a $100 budget. They are almost all large, long-term, efforts that cost real money in time and labor by dozens if not hundreds of coders.
What does this mean to the average business owners out there who believe their site needs to be Web 2.0? To demonstrate let’s look at real life businesses and the buildings that house them. A shopping mall - the entire mall - would be 2.0 when compared to a building that houses a single shop or service. This is not to say one is better than the other - it’s just the way it is. So stop worrying now.
Source: Zomzom Design
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Tuesday, June 26th, 2007
Mangled Visual Metaphors.
Everyone wants their logo to mean something - to represent some vital part of the company, product or service. Fair enough - that’s usually the point of the exericise, though often easier said than done. Creating a graphic image that tells a specific story about a sometimes fairly specialized business activity can be a daunting task and always runs the risk of becoming a mangled visual metaphor. Especially if the logo is designed in a ‘closed loop’ and even more so if created as part of a do-it-yourself project by someone without any real experience in design. Mangled visual metaphors often feature pictograms of human figures (the ubiquitous character with a circle for a head and a three-pointed graphic indicating his/her body) and often the activity being illustrated can very easily be interpreted as something else. This often involves logos that end up looking like naughty bits, or characters participating in activities that are much less than G-rated. As with many aspects of design, it’s always best to show you, rather than tell you. So, without further ado, let’s take a look at these (very real) logos -
Roh-oh. Now, we know that the pediatrics logo (1) is supposed to represent a caring physician offering comfort to a child (though that ain’t exactly what it looks like) and despite looking like the pair has been caught in flagrante delicto, we can sorta figure out that the top right image (2) depicts some sort of dental procedure. While (3) is meant to illustrate an oriental house set against a rising sun, it looks, ahm, almost pornographic, The computer services logo (4) is supposed to feature a mouse but can easily be confused with a certain part of the male anatomy, and while I understand that the dance instruction pictograms (5) are supposed to show a happy couple dancing the night away - can’t see anything but an image that would be better suited as an ad for a topless beach (look again). No doubt the designers of all these logos started out with only the best intentions, but somehow, somewhere, went seriously off the tracks and the mangled metaphors weren’t caught until the logo was in wide circulation.
Source: The logo Factor
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