Michelle's Weblog

Week 11

mdore6 — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:42:16 +0000

Web-Critique Assessment

The website that im going to use is http://www.munsterrugby.ie Im going to critique this website using five different design principles.

•    User-Centric Design
•    Simplicity
•    Typography
•    White-space
•    Layout
•    Colour
•    Coventions

User-Centric Design

Users should be happy with the Munster rugby website it is quite easy to follow.there is alot of high usability about the website.

It’s very easy to follow and there is alot of fixed points on the wesite so its easy to follow and the user can just go straight what they are looking for.

For the impatient user they can just click straight away and they will get an answer.its a very fast website to load up so you don’t have to be sitting there for ages to load up.

Simplicity

There is alot of effectiveness used in this website and you can see.Munster Rugby use alot of pixels for there interface of the website but it really doesnt give it a harsh outlook to the page.

Typography

There is quite suficent typefaces on the wesite there isnt a general differnce in any of the text used throughout the website and they keep it on one type face throughout.

White-space

There is white space used in the website.it’s generaly being used throughout.which maked it easy to read the website.

Layout

The layout is generally good there is a 3 coloum base to the website.It’s based on what you have to look for when you go on the website, what the general news is on the website and how the team have faired so far this season.

Colour
There is plenty of colour in his website there is a lot of vibiriant colours used throughout making this website look particular good.

Conventions

this wesite is great for navigating what you particular want but doesnt give any links to any other wesite other than it’s own.

Week 10

mdore6 — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:04:48 +0000

Today we had a lecture on Semiotics

The shortest definition of Semiotics that it is the study of signs.

Signs
Dyadic Model
Tryadic Model
Advertising
Positive & Negative

In the Lab We had an Assessment

It was the Positive & Negative Assessment Worth 10%

I Did mine on the negative side which was a Negative Simon Cowell.

Week 9

mdore6 — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 12:46:18 +0000

In the Lab We worked with photoshop and we were doing Good Louis Walsh

Week 9

mdore6 — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:21:15 +0000

Group:Michelle, Gary, Obi, Monika, Dean W., Fatima

Week 7

mdore6 — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:20:37 +0000

In todays’ lecture we learned about The Golden Mean and The Rule of Thirds.

Week 5

mdore6 — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:53:15 +0000

In this weeks lecture we talked about Multimedia software.We got fimilar with Adoebe Photoshop,Fireworks,illistator and end design.

Then in the lab we used photoshop and we got fimilar on how to use it..we created the pictures below using photoshop.

Week 4

mdore6 — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:57:22 +0000

This Week We visted the Botanic Gardens.We had to Demonstrate the many drawing tecniquies that we had studied in the previous weeks.Firstly we had to do a contour drawing in which i drew a tree and had to spend no longer then 10 minutes doing this.

The second exercise we had to do was to Blind contour drawing,this is a drawing where we were looking at the object but not at the page in this case i again drew a tree.

The next exercise was to do a negative space drawing this is to illistrate a drawing and its surrouding area.here in this drawing i drew a leaf.

The fourth exercise was to divide our sketchpad into six spaces and use oil pastels for creating texture here i drew what was ahead of me,behind me,right of me,left of me,above me and finally below me.

The final exercise was creating a drawing on pattern and spend no longer than 20 minutes here i drew the pattern of a leaf and used oil pastels to create a bit of texture.

Week 3

mdore6 — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:40:35 +0000

This week we studied the colour spectrum.Seeing which of the colours complimented each other.We Learned about primary and secondary colours and how to use a colour weel.We then went on to demonstrate our understanding of complementry colour,analogus and triad we demonstrated this by painting.

Week 2

mdore6 — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 11:44:29 +0000

This week we looked at very different types of drawings on what visual Language is. we saw some examples of visual language in comics animations and videos. we did a few exercises on the tone and the contour and implied lines on drawings

Visual Language Week 1

mdore6 — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:45:59 +0000

Week 1,we were introduced to the Visual Language Course at ITB

We Were Asked to write a few short questions about ourselves and portray small pictures relating to the subjects we picked to talked about and make it in to an A4 Poster.