This PowerPoint presentation looks at bank sites within Australia, with the view to understanding what elements of design add or subtract towards a good Web site and conversely a bad site.
Listen to some Early Renaissance Music whilst you view the Slide Show. Giutarist is Jon Sales. The music is German, called: Die Katzenpfote. Enjoy.
Design and development of concepts can be enhanced with the use of audio. In the post below I presented a mind-mapping exercise regarding concepts for a construction company's banner. Here I present a recorded interview with the client in order to get an endorsement of the design concept before commencing its development and implementation.
Mind Mapping enables in a meandering, yet concise way, a method of outlining one's ideas, thus allowing the ability to pick the best strategy to achieve the given brief. The photograph illustrates the process undertaken to design a banner for a large construction company's blog.
My first experimental video. As an artist I am interested in colour. I designed the art work in photoshop and captured each frame using hue, contrast etc. Each frame was composed in windows movie maker. Enjoy
This months inspirational quote: The delight of creative work lies in self-discovery: you are mining nuggets of power out of your own cosmos, and the find comes as a great and glad surprise. [Elbert Hubbard]
2007 Archibald Prize winner
John Beard
Janet Laurence
Just a short review of this years Archibald Portrait Prize. In broad terms, the Archibald and its cousins the Wynne and Sulman prizes were a disappointment. However, this year's worthy winner is an exception. John Beard (a disciplined and mature artist with a lifetime of devotion to his art) continues to paint his artist friends. His portrait of Janet Laurence continues to exploit the contrast between oil paint and encaustic in a deliberately limit pallette of black and white colour relationships. It is an insightful and engrossing work, rooted in direct observation, yet never losing a sense of mystery. The painting requires examination from a certain distance to appreciate the subtle nuances of black on black colours imbedded within the shadows. This black on black affects the overall atmosphere of the painting by suffusing the canvas in an all-encompassing colour-light that suggests a dominant blue tonality. Beard demonstrates skill and sensitivity, he has managed to penetrate below the surface and lay bare the underlying gentle aura of melancholy and isolation of his sitter.
The steps in the process for this design are as follows: member of a small team which brain stormed various ideas aimed towards sport people. Each member picked the best concept and various sketchs were developed, and discussed. Each member than developed that idea in photoshop. This is my concept that I hope conveys the brief.
Please click below to listen to a description of my concept for this ad.
Link to Word Document
