mhelke+-+Activity+Log

January 10th:
1) Contributed several websites to the Inspiration page as follows: Work popping up everywhere, very dynamic! You have to drag around to find things, but there is also the option of a more traditional navigation at times. Not the easiest navigation in the world, because when you click things fold up, but creates cool visual effects. You can customize the site! change the background colour, and the navigation. It is nice to have options! Very interesting way to display their collection as well as to make the website interactive.
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January 18th:
2) Edited the Summary for the 2nd week reading 3) Added a Ttypographic DOs and DONTs list to this summary to help peers with their typography 4) Added a Typographic Checklist to this summary with the above mentioned intent 5) Added a table of content to the Summary page for easier navigation in the material 6) Organized the Inspiration page (now called Web, Print Design) according to content (categorized it by type of media covered by the links: websites, typography, misc, portfolio sites etc) 7) Added table of contents to the Inspiration page for easier navigation 8) Reorganized the navigation panel to achieve a more logical order of tabs. 9) Highlighted the FAQ section to bring it to the students' attention, and encourage the use of it.

January 26th:
9) Further organized the Web, Print Design page according to content 10) Navigation panel needed further organizing: Inspiration needs to mark where the inspiration section begins, and some of the titles needed to be changed because they weren't indicating the content appropriately 11) Added a bit of a blurb about the guest speaker, Jason Bruges, what he is about, and food for thought provided by his presentation ( Summary )

February 3rd:
12) Critiqued Shelby's work, she has done a very nice job! I had a couple of suggestions though. click here to see! 13) Critiqued Dylan's work, he also came up with a very nice way of displaying content. See my comments here 14) Contributed to the Dump! section with a Kid Cudi music video. Very nice visuals elements, colours and composition are inspiring. 15) Contributed to the Dump! section with another music video: James Blake, one of my favourites right now. Amazing music, and very pleasant imagery as well. Worth taking a look!

February 3- March 17
1) For project 2, I have critiques Kay's and Corinne's work (can't like it because it seemed to have dissapeared, but if you check my activity its there, and also I am going to post it here:

hello there Corinne
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I like what you have done in terms of colour in your sketch with the green leaf things! THat is pretty sweet. I am not sure though how that relates to the journey, maybe provide some sort of explanation on the side, or even in the sketch. I think you could try to experiment a bit more with type and colour, that would add a lot to your sketches. In the one that there is a horizontal stripe "scanning" the tree, if you would photoshop the picture to be another colour or draw it, it would add great visual interest i think. good job, and good luck!:) ||

2) I went to see the speaker, Jan Edler, and wrote a short summary for the class. Click here to see it