Filed under: Design
While website design isn’t fun to do (it just needs to get done), I’ve stumbled upon a useful step that increases the speed of finishing your design.
It’s called wireframing.
Essentially, you lay out all elements of your webpage in just black and white. You determine the location of pictures, text and whitespace by using dummy elements. To place a picture, put a big box with an X in it. To place text, use a block of dummy text called “Ipsum Lorem”.
When you’re finished, you essentially put clothes on your site by adding colors, graphics, images and content.
*Full disclosure: this website doesn’t actually exist anywhere. It was a mock-up I made at Stickcore as a simple preview for a potential client.
After a long blog hiatus, I’m hoping to start posting more stuff again. So, quick updates:
1) Improv documentary: All the footage is shot and I’m currently in the editing process. Under the advice of a local video guru (Houston Wells), I’m currently transcribing each interview I managed to obtain, which is about 20 or so. The rough cut phase comes after that.
2) Money: Recently, I landed a job with a local web design company. It pays only a basic rate, but it provides steady income for a creative job, which is more preferred than being paid to lift things. Hopefully, I’ll actually end up with a good reference (instead of my other jobs).
That’s the basics. Occasionally, I’ll post things I’ve done in the past three months.
BUT here’s something I did tonight. While Photoshop and Illustrator are fine tools, they have one drawback: 3D. Both programs have pseudo-methods to create 3D objects, but they look like crap. Recently, I started playing around with a program called Cinema 4D, which is designed to create (amazing) 3D objects. See:
I redesigned the graphic format I’ve been making for the SNL horserace. This is more pleasing to look at, although it offers less information.
Last weekend, I lost my dog Molly. A week later, I got her back using the power of the INTERNET and NEWSPAPERS. I made a webpage and planted a Facebook share button on it so it could make its rounds on social networks.
After we got an article in the Alligator, the people who found her called. Turns out she had been living like a queen for a week. Here’s the “lost black dog” page I made:
The large black space after “here’s what she looked like a week ago” contained this video:
Filed under: Design
Put together probably my last poster for TSF. It’s pretty fun.
Filed under: Design
Took a stab at a re-design for a UF college troupe. I like it, even if it is a little self-important. I’m slowly figuring out how light makes things look good and how 3D space works. Science.
Another SNL horserace graphic. If you don’t, you should follow SplitSider.com. It consistently has comedic entertainment news that matters before anyone else. I like it. That should be enough.
Woot. Designed this one after a suggestion from Erik Voss.
Background: the folks at SplitSider are keeping track of the number of roles each cast member gets this season on SNL.
The comedy reporting blog SplitSider.com recently published actor statistics for the season premiere of SNL, and I was inspired to make an infographic out of it. It’s pretty simple, but pleasing.
If you’re interested in the comedy industry, you should follow them. They’ve got interesting and very up-to-date material on there. Regarding the homefront, I’m currently working on a music video for some Netherlands DJs (more about that later) in After Effects, which should be done within the week.
Hire me.
