4.21.2009
video blog vlog smog jog
This is Nick Loper, the owner, moderator, and creator of www.shoesrus.net. He is expanding his business to include an external handbags site as well. In this interview he is talking about the challenges he is facing in developing this new handbags site.
4.17.2009
Spring Week 3....post crit/presentation
This presentation format was nice because it left everyone a lot more time for getting feedback, which is what I need most right now in order to really refine where I'm going. I was feeling really hesitant about the idea for the pocket guide, but the positive feedback was really crucial.
An idea that came up for the pocket guide after class was to combine the idea of the ethical platform that the Illinois curriculum used. Derrick also had a good comment of trying to use both sides of the pocketmod page, since one page is left blank, I assume for binding purposes, it could be un-bound and have content on the binding side as well. In this case I think I could incorporate both of the possible ideas I have been throwing around for the pocket guide. The main side would have the steps to develop and continually check your ethical platform, basically the 'how to' for ensuring that you maintain your ethical stance and work values. The other side could have example photos and hopefully short descriptions of different kinds of projects that involved some kind of ethical discussion.
I'm in the process of looking up good book layouts and grid formats for the presentation of my paper. From the stuff I've looked at I think that maintaining a feeling of playfulness or interest in viewing the book will have to do with keeping the sections in narrow columns and pretty specific, short, well titled sections. From the stuff I've read, having in-descriptive titles or sections that are too lengthy is a really quick deterrent from reading if I'm short on time. I want this to be something that is easy to engage and interact with. I've been really interested in the appearance of color layering (like in screen printing) and an interaction of graphics and graphic typography.
My paper is coming really slowly. It currently sounds a lot like my presentations but just on paper, and I feel that I have a lot of information and analysis that I don't include in presentations so I'm trying to continually edit to get it to include as much information as possible in as few words as possible.
An idea that came up for the pocket guide after class was to combine the idea of the ethical platform that the Illinois curriculum used. Derrick also had a good comment of trying to use both sides of the pocketmod page, since one page is left blank, I assume for binding purposes, it could be un-bound and have content on the binding side as well. In this case I think I could incorporate both of the possible ideas I have been throwing around for the pocket guide. The main side would have the steps to develop and continually check your ethical platform, basically the 'how to' for ensuring that you maintain your ethical stance and work values. The other side could have example photos and hopefully short descriptions of different kinds of projects that involved some kind of ethical discussion.
I'm in the process of looking up good book layouts and grid formats for the presentation of my paper. From the stuff I've looked at I think that maintaining a feeling of playfulness or interest in viewing the book will have to do with keeping the sections in narrow columns and pretty specific, short, well titled sections. From the stuff I've read, having in-descriptive titles or sections that are too lengthy is a really quick deterrent from reading if I'm short on time. I want this to be something that is easy to engage and interact with. I've been really interested in the appearance of color layering (like in screen printing) and an interaction of graphics and graphic typography.
My paper is coming really slowly. It currently sounds a lot like my presentations but just on paper, and I feel that I have a lot of information and analysis that I don't include in presentations so I'm trying to continually edit to get it to include as much information as possible in as few words as possible.
4.03.2009
Spring Week 1
This week I have been considering what a paper for my project would look like. I took the bullets from my last presentation because that had a topic flow that I liked. So far the outline is very generally this:
Section 1 (shortest section): Design situation, design ethics as it stands
Section 2 (also fairly short): Design ethics education as it stands
Section 3 (second longest): What design ethics needs, address problems in AIGA standards, First Things First, and sections that should be added to supplement
Section 4 (longest): The argument of our ethical obligation - still having a seriously hard time thinking up good examples and counter examples so any input on those is much appreciated (if you remember the acid throwing example I gave, things of that nature will be most helpful, so something that is provocative and not over addressed [ie. murder, naziism], and also ones of a lesser scale that are not focused on sustainability). This section will essentially be the reason why we need to consider, practice, and actively improve on all the things previously mentioned in the paper.
I'm going to write it out at whatever length it happens to be and then try and condense it down. All the literature I have on this topic is too long for me to stay interested in so I want to make sure I get a lot of different edits so it's interesting, maybe slightly humorous writing. The main problem I feel that I will run into is making sure the argument and the concepts are really accessible. I like the example that Kristine's company has of the ways that they're sustainable and different things that you can do. I think providing a lot of examples of situations and ways to handle them is key.
My to-do list for this week is:
Choose 10 professional designers to contact for input on examples and contact them to arrange a meeting
Make one very rough draft of my paper, that will probably read like expanded bullet points
Organize my sources
Organize the relevant quotes from my sources with the sources list
Contact karen/do research to attempt to publish my paper
Return my library books
Sorry this is pretty much just the minimum amount of words :(
Section 1 (shortest section): Design situation, design ethics as it stands
Section 2 (also fairly short): Design ethics education as it stands
Section 3 (second longest): What design ethics needs, address problems in AIGA standards, First Things First, and sections that should be added to supplement
Section 4 (longest): The argument of our ethical obligation - still having a seriously hard time thinking up good examples and counter examples so any input on those is much appreciated (if you remember the acid throwing example I gave, things of that nature will be most helpful, so something that is provocative and not over addressed [ie. murder, naziism], and also ones of a lesser scale that are not focused on sustainability). This section will essentially be the reason why we need to consider, practice, and actively improve on all the things previously mentioned in the paper.
I'm going to write it out at whatever length it happens to be and then try and condense it down. All the literature I have on this topic is too long for me to stay interested in so I want to make sure I get a lot of different edits so it's interesting, maybe slightly humorous writing. The main problem I feel that I will run into is making sure the argument and the concepts are really accessible. I like the example that Kristine's company has of the ways that they're sustainable and different things that you can do. I think providing a lot of examples of situations and ways to handle them is key.
My to-do list for this week is:
Choose 10 professional designers to contact for input on examples and contact them to arrange a meeting
Make one very rough draft of my paper, that will probably read like expanded bullet points
Organize my sources
Organize the relevant quotes from my sources with the sources list
Contact karen/do research to attempt to publish my paper
Return my library books
Sorry this is pretty much just the minimum amount of words :(
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