visual communication : business cards

business cards pdf

visual communication: 2

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google docs

visual communication: 1

http://info.med.yale.edu/psych/3s/metta.html












































Some issues:

1. Have and idea

To display and compare unattractive and well designed sites

2. Make decisions that support the idea

A stream of information organized in a visually abrasive stream of data, not clearly directing you to the information you came for, let alone making it clear what information you will find there

3. Choose colors for a reason

Abrasive color selection that does nothing for the information

4. Make the negative space part of the design

The site doesn’t adhere to a grid, poor use of negative space

5. Communicate with clear messages and word choices

unclear a difficult to tell what the site is about, what click will lead you where, how to find the info you need. Convoluted structure doesn't express the site's content

6. Establish a hierarchy of information – little or no heirarchy

7. Stick to one layout justification – the eye likes order and consistency - but here they oscillate between center and left justified

8. Work with a grid –

inconsistent and variable grid.

9. Make the interface intuitive

Not intuitive, not clear.

Processing: Assignment 1

This is my really really abstracted rendering of a Canon AE-1.

In time I will wow the world with my processing skillz. In time.
















SOURCE CODE:

size(600, 800);
background(2);
smooth();

//begin code for triangle strip (lens)
int x = width/2;
int y = height/2;
float outerRad = min(200, 200) * 0.4;
float innerRad = outerRad * 0.6;
float px = 0, py = 0, angle = 0;
float pts = 36;
float rot = 360.0/pts;

beginShape(TRIANGLE_STRIP);
for (int i = 0; i < pts; i++) { px = x + cos(radians(angle))*outerRad; py = y + sin(radians(angle))*outerRad; angle += rot; vertex(px, py); px = x + cos(radians(angle))*innerRad; py = y + sin(radians(angle))*innerRad; vertex(px, py); angle += rot; } endShape(); //begin code for points and lines (frame) int d = 200; int p1 = d; int p2 = p1+d; int p3 = p2+d; int p4 = p3+d; size(600, 800); background(0); // Draw gray box stroke(153); line(p3, p3, p2, p3); line(p2, p3, p2, p2); line(p2, p2, p3, p2); line(p3, p2, p3, p3); beginShape(TRIANGLE_STRIP); for (int i = 0; i < pts; i++) { px = x + cos(radians(angle))*outerRad; py = y + sin(radians(angle))*outerRad; angle += rot; vertex(px, py); px = x + cos(radians(angle))*innerRad; py = y + sin(radians(angle))*innerRad; vertex(px, py); angle += rot; } endShape(); //code for shape primitive (flash) smooth(); noStroke(); fill(226); rect(45, 45, 35, 35); smooth(); noStroke(); fill(226); rect(200, 400, 35, 35);

Built with Processing

LED blink

Spent the weekend trying to make a couple of LED lights blink intermittently by tinkering with my fickle new friend, the Arduino.

It didn't happen... but I swear I will make these LED's flash if it's the last thing I do.

Also wandered around the city aiming to shoot some photos of machines with sensors. Photos to come shortly.

astral projects

From the set of My Sun and Moon:
Covered this gal's face in bright make-up, jewels and candy, sewed together a cotton-candy tulle and sequin-collage dress, poured glitter into soap that looked like honey, and painted a bald man's head entirely silver.
It was a freakish and absolutely lovely weekend.

j. s. mill

The Philadelphia Story (1940)

(as quoted in Stanley Cavell's Cities of Words:)

In our times, from the highest class of society down to the lowest every one lives as under the eye of a hostile and dreaded censorship. Not only in what concerns others, but in what concerns only themselves, the individual, or the family, do not ask themselves--what do I prefer? or, what would suit my character and disposition? or, what would allow the best and highest in me to have fair play, and enable it to grow and thrive? They ask themselves, what is suitable to my position? what is usually done by persons of my station and pecuniary circumstances? or (worse still) what is usually done by persons of a station and circumstances superior to mine? I do not mean that they choose what is customary, in preference to what suits their own inclination. It does not occur to them to have any inclination, except for what is customary. Thus the mind itself is bowed to the yoke: even in what people do for pleasure, conformity is the first thing thought of; they like in crowds; they exercise choice only among things commonly done: peculiarity of taste, eccentricity of conduct, are shunned equally with crimes: until by dint of not following their own nature, they have no nature to follow: their human capacities are withered and starved: they become incapable of any strong wishes or native pleasures, and are generally without either opinions or feelings of home growth, or properly their own. Now is this, or is it not, the desirable condition of human nature?