Thursday, April 17, 2008

Major Project Concept





















The Design of my website is based on my Samoan Heritage. The background image consists of a Samoan tattoo design in the middle as well as on the side, with butterflies and leaves decorating the website. This theme will carry through the entire website creating continuity.

The website is mainly based in HTML with flash elements incorporated in it. Some sub-pages such as Albums might be using flash as the major medium with the user being able to interact with the photos directly.

Hyperlinks have been split into two different colours. Links that have been visited and not visited before. The two colours contrast (red, blue) each other and have the same luminosity to be as visually receptive to the viewer.

Traditional Samoan music will also be played as the viewer goes through the website.
A small video has been considered also, engaging the viewer and to give the viewer another way of expressing my identity through another medium.

The text font is 'Viner Hand ITC' and the size at the moment is 19, which is bigger than normal text but it is necessary for easier reading. This text gives my website character and personality as it has a diary 'scribbling' yet neat type look to it.


The site has been designed to flow very simply.
Here is my site map.


And finally here is a diagram showing the content that my website will consist of.

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Research Report

WMTEAM Showtime: www.wmteam.com

“Graphic Art is a term applied historically to the art of printmaking and drawing. In contemporary usage it refers to the applied trade-skills of a graphic designer or print technician. The term can include the trades of lithography, serigraphy and bindery, among others. Graphic arts as a trade can be traced back to the first instances of the stamped image or word. Graphic design is the process of communicating visually using text and images to present information. Graphic design practice embraces a range of cognitive skills, aesthetics and crafts, including typography, visual arts and page layout. Like other forms of design, graphic design often refers to both the process (designing) by which the communication is created and the products (designs) which are generated.”

Flash company WM TEAM Showtime for your brand is one of the leading providers of entertainment. They acquire online accounts of large branded companies, produce websites, banner campaigns and ad games - always keeping an eye on the entertainment value for users.

In this visual website, the art complements the design where art has a meaning and design has a purpose.

This website is comprised of simple primary colors (Red, Green, Blue) giving an eye-catching but subtle presentation leaving people with a good first impression. It has an excellent choice of color, animations and background sound which consequently leads to a stimulating, fun and pleasant website. It uses child-like animations which spices up the pages keeping viewers of all ages entertained while delivering the contents. Art is depicted by the texts, images, animations, videos, sounds and colors simulated.

Speaking of design, this website works as expected or it serves its purpose with a tinge of class which shows professionalism. That is, no duplicates or redundancy, elements are coherent and compatible, clear and simple webpage comprising a quality website. The webpage is centered allowing viewers to narrow their attention to the entire content. Moreover, the use of exquisite text format (styles, size and colors) enables viewers to differentiate between headers, links and body making it readable while the smart flash animations helps coherently link pages and visualize the contents. Colors play a big part in this design as shown by the links when active, visited or hovered. This piercing website itself uses simple color hues applying less saturated colors to the backgrounds and vice versa for the linings harmonizing with the sole purpose of this leading provider of entertainment (WMTEAM). Last but not the least, this is a marketable website which conveys and promotes the companies capabilities.

In brief, websites share the same vision which is to gain user to understand its purpose and make the best out of it. Basically, it should look good, and are clear and easy to use such as having easy-access executable links. Consequently, distracting marquees are avoided along with cluttered images, video or animations which can be time consuming when loading a webpage. The WMTEAM website relates to other art/design forms on the web through the use of good contrast in color, simple text format making it readable as well as the utilization of animations or images to convey information creating a quality website.

In summary, the WMTEAM website falls into both art and design category. This website is encompassed with art in many forms that is, anything that stimulates the senses. Consequently, the design which is a calculative defined process supplements art to create this vivid website. WMTEAM shares the same basic art/design forms on the web.