Crit
This week's lecture will be a Crit session where specific feedback will be given highlighting exemplary work and denoting potential areas of improvement to enable students to revise project work prior to final submission.
Homeworks Summary
Homework 1.1 is to be a considered research piece on your selected topic. It must include appropriate harvard referencing, an illustration of your topic & a scan or photo of the original 'Flash Card' you were supplied with. This is to be a single HTML page (No CSS). Your creative experimentation should outline the design process of your illustration. We encourage you to show preliminary sketches, any designs that you experimented with but didn't necessarily make the final piece and a breakdown of the stages in the design of your illustration. Screen grabs from Illustrator is a an acceptable form of process.
Homework 1.2 is to include a finely crafted research piece on only one web designer chosen from the list we supplied in week 2 (You should include preliminary research on some of the other web designers in your research diary and discuss why you decided to look at a particular person.) This homework must be semantically marked up using HTML (Headers, Lists, Paragraphs, Blockquotes etc) and should have no CSS whatsoever (This means it is not to be in the same style as your portfolio site).
Homework 1.3 in simple terms means taking a copy of your research in 1.2 and using CSS to style it. We would like you take inspiration from your chosen designer and the others you have researched and use this to be creative and style your homework in whatever way you feel appropriate (layout, colour, typography etc). What we do not want to see is a direct imitation of your chosen designers website. Your creative experimentation may include testing of different layouts in CSS, sketches of the layout you chose, photoshop mockups of your design ideas.
All homework’s (1.1, 1.2 & 1.3) should be completed and linked from your homepage by 2pm on Thursday 20th October.
General homework notes
Each homework should be a separate file (preferably HTML) e.g. 1.1_Apple.html and linked from the homepage in the templates supplied and not from within your research diary.
All references should be cited using Harvard Referencing
Homework 1.1 should be accompanied with an illustration of your chosen topic, developed in Adobe Illustrator.
Your research for all homework’s should contain at least 1 online & 1 offline source (offline meaning book, magazine, radio, interview).
Homework 1.1 &1.2 should not contain any CSS. This is allowed in 1.3 only.
Research does not entirely consist of copying and pasting directly from the web and simply sourcing the site you copied from. Referring back to what we expect: Your Research Diary involves you finding, reflecting, debating and reinterpreting design issues into your own words from both common and unusual sources, not just from the internet but also books, newspapers and other mediums.