Design principles and principles
this new module we are studying about the designs which are very useful for designing new websites etc.
we learnt about the top 20 rules of designing such as:
the design process
form and space
unity
object semantics
colour
type
image
and layout.
we also had a look at our case study “Saul Bass”.
This week Denise and Karen brought in the dogs to us.(the main hall)
Our group took one dog and we all went outside,with our cameras and video cameras.
It was funny everyone was looking at us taking pictures.The trainer got the dog to sit down so we got to take pictures off the dog.The dog was so young but brilliant she obeyed all the commands. After getting all the pictures we needed we went back inside and set up a obsticle route for the dog.As blind people always have obsticles to get around. I got to take the dog around the cones…
we then all got to play with the dogs and got a group photo with them.
we then had to pick our favorite 25 pictures and put them into a slideshow for our ca.
Today we had David Joyce of Language Communications come in and talk with us.David had worked within this collge ITB ,with the final design of the ITB logo..He showed us all the old rough drawings with all the dsigns . He had used illustrator for all the designs. They all looked simply done as were learning how to use illustator. He showed us the process he had to go through in each one of his projects.
His presentation lasted the whole hour of our class, it was a good and intresting presentation as some of us in the future will be going to do some of that work !!
Today we had yet another guest speaker.Her name was Ruth Mc Partlin.
She was an all Ireland top 120 business women. She basically explained to all of us how she had different experiences in jobs.She told us how she has learnt from mistakes and all the challenges she has faced within businesses and team work.
Ruth advised us what to do
and how to cope within team work etc…
She also gave us some tips about what is important in the digital media field now:for example
Her presentation was good and gave us a heads up for business life.
Today we had a guest speaker named Maria Browne.
She is the careers development manager here in ITB.!!!
She came in to speak with us about our forth coming interview.She had a well prepared powerpoint presentation for us.
She spoke about what we should gain from her talk,about the skills we will use. Questions we should pay attention to. Her talk/presentation lasted the hour this morning, it seemed short and maybe not she’ll be able to fit all in. But she did which was well worthed…
Her lecture was to prepare us for our mock interview,to make sure we had all the convidence and to be prepared.
I took so much away from her talk .She gave us cv’s and questions be prepared about. It was a intresting and a good talk.!
Blog diary
OUTINGS!!!!!!
Our digital media group went on an outing today we all went to the bodies exhibition.We meet outside the Ambassador Theatre at 10.30.! It was great and very interesting. We got a student discount, and we then got to walk around by ourselves.
After the bodies exhibition we headed to the Hugh Lane Gallery.it was good fun as we didnt no which floor to go on to find the paintings…
so we got on the lift and went up and down a couple off times.we adventually got off it after Tom playing us a little song,of George Michael.
So we then got off the lift and then we had a look around the paintings.As we saw and heard that these paintings cost millions and they were very intresting stories about it. at the end off looking around the gallery we headed to the shop and bought some postcards,they were very good and funny.
After that we got our lunch, the whole lot of us went to Mc Donells 
even though Adam, Richie and myself wasn’t to pushed on going but we gave over and headed in and bought some food.
We also went to the science gallery in Trinity College on Pearse Street. It was another good trip. We got to see Trinity College and a match that was being played. Then we were taken around by one man it was a class place my favorite attraction was the tent with all the neon lights it was great with all the beanbags aswell.
The following points are to be included:
user-centric design
simplicity
typography
white space.
User-centric design : argos site doesnt require any flash plug-ins or any other forms of medis players.this site is strictly for shoppers who can have a browse and buy goods.
When you enter the site your bombarded with many goods you can purchase.all you have to do is simpliy click on the buttons you need to press which intrest you.
Simplicity:argos.com has a beautiful choice of colours within the site purples,blues and a great theme of christmas in the background.its simple as clicking a button and adding it to your basket and you have quickly bought something in no time,instead of taking a trip to a busy argos and waiting in queues.
Typography;in the argos site, the typography is pretty clear, the font size and colouring is easy to read.overall the website is very appealling.
White space:argos.com there is plenty of white spaces between the pictures and the text.
Layout:the layout of argos.com is cleverily done. Everything is put in a way that you can clearly browse through. And it always shows the products that are on sale or special offer.the layout is graet is jam packed etc….
today we went on photoshop and made louis look like an angel
"Todays class" we got cameras and we began taking photos for stetch.
