Week 8

We have organised our floor planning during the lecture, so it is done and we chose the style we are going to use as a guidance on the floor (Pac Man).

As we have a dissertation presentation on monday we thought to meet on week 9 all together in a group and start testing this idea sticking the dots to the floor and see how it works.

I was also working on my Blog design and here is the link:  http://annalapodesing.blogspot.co.uk/

Portfolio Research

I found some portfolio ideas, which looks interesting.

1) http://www.nathanhinz.com/index.php?/portfolio/

This is a small book which has pictures in small, kind of, envelopes.

The reader can easily take the card with picture and hold it in the hands while observing.

2) http://meiss-group.ru/portfolio/z-card.html

Some ideas of the Z-card.

http://meiss-group.ru/portfolio/z-card.html

3) http://www.triadaltd.ru/about/press/33/

Another idea, to make a calendar as a portfolio, so people will keep it for at least one year :)

4) Could be also some other ideas of transformable portfolio.

5) http://www.artbasecompany.ru/portfolio_single_events.html#

On the picture there are hands holding a tissue, I could use this kind of technique with hands holding each of my design peaces, just developing this idea as here it is a bit primitive.

Portfolio ideas

I made a list of ideas for the portfolio to include and separated my designs for the sections:

Week 7

Changed variants of my CV and B.C

BLOG EXAMPLES

I think at the moment it is too early to create a real website and I also don't want to rush, so my decision is to make a Blog.

I also found some nice examples of the Blogs.

1) This blog is interesting, because it attracts and is very understandable. There is something like Rubik's cube clicking which you will always go back to the main page and never get lost :) I like the organisation and the colours used. From this website I got an idea to include not only the pictures of my projects, but also some pictures of the process they were made, because it is always more interesting to see, maybe some prototype creation pictures, or my pictures in the studio doing some works. I remember on the website of Philip Stark I saw that he has a large gallery of his different artistic image.

http://veerle.duoh.com/

2) This Blog of a designer is interesting, I cannot say he used something outstanding, but it is very clear. He used the top left side menu how it should be in a good Blog, also the main colours are black and white and because the background is white and he has large pictures of his designs the reader does not get distracted and pays all the attention the the design pictures what should be the main.

http://blogof.francescomugnai.com/2011/12/the-30-most-expensive-elegant-and-crazy-watches-ever/

3) This is also not bad variant. Very clear and calm blog using muted colours. Also the owner of this blog was using some illustrations showing that he is half British half South African showing the pictures of African animals near Big Ben :) I might think about some Russian things as well......

http://www.markforrester.co.za/

4) I really like this kind of Blog or website styles, where everything is in harmony and accurate and looks nice and presentable. It is not a Blog, it is a portfolio, but I took just an idea in general. The colours are nice and the pictures are shown in a big format.

http://99designs.com/print-design/contests/portofino-yachts-brochure-redesign-garanted-100099/entries/35

Website examples and thoughts

1) I found this website quite nice as it is very clear and has calm natural colours. Also, the organisation is good, very easy to read. However it does not have any animations, it still looks good.

http://www.austineastciders.com/index.html

2) This website is very interesting, maybe because it is the first time I saw this kind of websites. All page turn happens like in i-phone. Also I like this kind of typo and style, however I would prefer more clear website and the movement of the pages happens too fast and sharply.

http://www.lamaddalena.pl/

3) This website also kept my attention as it has a big photo gallery what I like a lot, because as a designer if I need to show my projects, i would prefer this type of gallery. Also it is well organised and easy to read. The black colour always looks good, but in my situation I will try to experiment with green to follow my CV and B.C style.

http://ascensionlatorre.com/home

4) This is interesting variant of the website because going to the window HOME the information is changing clicking the arrows and everything is animated, I like this presentation of the information and the colours looks nice, but I would better use yellow with gray-it is one of my favourite combinations.

http://thepenthouseproject.com/#/everywhere